Configure behavior through the RevenueCat dashboard instead.
I’ve looked everywhere in the dashboard, but can’t find any setting that would seem to relate to this?
Also, I’m unsure exactly what this function does: is it for instance in case someone creates several accounts in the app with, say, different email addresses, but has a single App Store account?
Sorry I didn’t see the second part of that question:
Also, I’m unsure exactly what this function does: is it for instance in case someone creates several accounts in the app with, say, different email addresses, but has a single App Store account?
Correct! If someone purchased from multiple accounts within your app, but they shared the same App Store account, RevenueCat would merge the App User IDs together (alias) and treat them as the same customer going forward.
Turns out, a lot of developers didn’t prefer this behavior, so we introduced this new server-side configuration to give you more flexibility over how these are handled.
With “Transfer purchases” (the new default), if one of your app accounts tries to restore or purchase and the App Store account is already in use by another one of your subscribers, the subscription status will be transferred over to the latest account. This still allows your customers to restore purchases if they forget their account in your app, but doesn’t allow people to share their subscription as easily with other accounts to give them free access.
Sorry I didn’t see the second part of that question:
Also, I’m unsure exactly what this function does: is it for instance in case someone creates several accounts in the app with, say, different email addresses, but has a single App Store account?
Correct! If someone purchased from multiple accounts within your app, but they shared the same App Store account, RevenueCat would merge the App User IDs together (alias) and treat them as the same customer going forward.
Turns out, a lot of developers didn’t prefer this behavior, so we introduced this new server-side configuration to give you more flexibility over how these are handled.
With “Transfer purchases” (the new default), if one of your app accounts tries to restore or purchase and the App Store account is already in use by another one of your subscribers, the subscription status will be transferred over to the latest account. This still allows your customers to restore purchases if they forget their account in your app, but doesn’t allow people to share their subscription as easily with other accounts to give them free access.
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