Very interesting that they chose to go with a tipping model vs letting creators set up "pay to enter" chat rooms. That would be a lot more useful for the way I normally see the product used.
I guess this was just the easiest lift from the technical side (not too much work beyond copy pasting some Stripe sample code).
Although if it's just a matter of P2P money transfer for tips/donations then I'd rather use something like Venmo or Cash App and pay no fees. If I was a creator on Clubhouse I'd be putting "Venmo me at @XYZ instead of this" on my profile right now.
>Very interesting that they chose to go with a tipping model vs letting creators set up "pay to enter" chat rooms.
I believe the only way around Apple requesting a cut of the payment is to explicitly avoid any notion of "unlocking" extras or access within the app. The tipping method is just a way for users to send money to each other, no biggie... but "unlocking a room" is basically an IAP, or could be defined as one.
Yeah, good point. Here are the explicit guidelines:
3.1.3(d) Person-to-Person Services: If your app enables the purchase of realtime person-to-person services between two individuals (for example tutoring students, medical consultations, real estate tours, or fitness training), you may use purchase methods other than in-app purchase to collect those payments. One-to-few and one-to-many realtime services must use in-app purchase.
Yeah. Your sibling comment drew a distinction, but it seems that distinction has arbitrary holes in its consistency as well. I’m sure if Patreon 50x’ed revenue and traffic starting next month — Apple would begin treating them more harshly.
Is this actually applied properly and consistently? How is a Patreon of videos or audio different than Spotify or Netflix? Didn’t they both have to remove being able to subscribe via their iOS apps unless they wanted to lose a 30% cut? This makes it completely arbitrary then. As I can subscribe to a new Patreon in the app still.
I guess this was just the easiest lift from the technical side (not too much work beyond copy pasting some Stripe sample code).
Although if it's just a matter of P2P money transfer for tips/donations then I'd rather use something like Venmo or Cash App and pay no fees. If I was a creator on Clubhouse I'd be putting "Venmo me at @XYZ instead of this" on my profile right now.