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Hi community, 

We started an in-app subscription pricing experiment following Revenue Cat’s best practices.  All is going smoothly except we see that the control and experiment subscription group pricing are both visible in the App Store under “in-app purchase”.  Some similar apps with subscriptions also have duplication in the price listing like we do, but not all of them. 

Is this unavoidable?  Are there other best practices around experiments to manage display of experimental and control pricing in the App Store?   Advice appreciated!

Hi @sizestream-dev,

Are the products in your control and treatment groups in different subscription groups? This is the best way to ensure that users can’t end up with simultaneous subscriptions that unlock the same content, especially when price testing: https://www.revenuecat.com/blog/engineering/ios-subscription-groups-explained/

Otherwise, users can change subscriptions via the Settings app, and may end up with a purchase outside of their original experiment variant. Changes via the App Store or settings are still possible, but implementing subscription groups should help quite a bit. 

Hi Kaitlin,

Thanks for the reply.  We put the control and treatment in different subscription groups.  It sounds like the App Store doesn’t provide a strategy to ‘hide’ experimental subscriptions from users, so even with different subscription groups a knowledgeable user can find and subscribe to an experimental price.  We will work with that knowledge, thank you!

Hi @sizestream-dev,

It shouldn’t be possible for users to view subscription groups that they don’t have any active subscriptions from. Have you seen instances where that happened?

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