Any benefit to free subscriptions outside of Newsstand?

Situation: We have a client who will publish free folios to a free multi-viewer app. The client wants the app to live outside of Newsstand.
What we know: Free folios show up in the app as soon as they're published. But, Apple offers the ability to configure free subscriptions.
Our question: What's the benefit in configuring free subscription for non-Newsstand apps? Or, does Apple simply require free subscriptions for free-folio/free-multi-issue apps to live in Newsstand?
Thanks, as always.
Josh Penrod

Apple created the Free Subscriptions option specifically to enable apps with free content to work in Newsstand. I see no benefit in setting up free subscriptions outside of Newsstand, and I don't even know if it's possible.

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Hello,
I'm trying to test a free subscription, multi folio newsstand app with renditions. However, the viewer opens without any folios - just the subscription tiles. I've triple checked the Apple product IDs, shared secrets and have all of the appropriate certificates. I'm at my wit's end! A few questions:
Should free subscriptions folios be public/free or retail? I'm reading conflicting things.
I'm a little unsure of the order in which I should publish folios in the folio producer. Should this step proceed or follow creating the .ipa for testing?
Does this naming of the actual folios matter, as long as they are the same? I only need the same exact Product ID for iTunes Connect and the App Builder, correct?
I've noticed that after you enter your shared secret there is a field to enter an iTunes url in the Admin Tool. Which url do we use? Do we enter this after the folio is public?
Thanks!
Darin

Free subscriptions should be Public/Free, not Retail.
It doesn't matter which order you publish the folios and create the .ipa for testing. When you publish the folios as Free and Public, they should appear in your testing app if (A) you specified the shared secret, (B) published the folios as Public/Free, (C) set up your renditions/folios correctly, and (D) specified the free subscription Product ID created in iTunes Connect in the DPS App Builder.
When you set up renditions for a subscription app, the Folio Name, Product ID, and Publication Date values need to be the same for all renditions, and different for each set of renditions. Specify the Publication Date values by choosing from the calendar picker.
Yes, the iTunes URL becomes available when you publish the app.

Free subscription, but not in Newsstand?

I have just successfully managed to make a subscription viewer with a free subscription, entered all info on Itunes Connect etc, but now I see this message on iTunes connect:
Your first free In-App Purchase subscription(s) must be submitted with a new app version that is enabled for Newsstand. After enabling your app version for Newsstand, select your free subscription(s) from the In-App Purchases section of the Version Details page and then click Ready to Upload Binary.
Does this mean what I fear - that if I make a free subscription Viewer, it MUST go into Newsstand? We want to stay out of Newsstand, since the content is not a periodical, but corporate information. I didn't specify Newsstand info in the Viewer builder, and the development viewer appears outside of Newsstand, so I guess that the viewer is ok. But will Apple reject the app?

Thank you for all your quick replies in this and related discussions Bob! I'm crossing my fingers for the possibility to specify URL schemes for viewers without subscriptions in a new release soon.

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Free subscription strategy

I have a monthly magazine in review with Apple that will appear in Newsstand, but while fixing a little bug, I realized that my subscription strategy may need to be revised.
The goal is to have a monthly magazine free to all users for the first year while the reader/subscriber base is built and then offer a paid subscription starting in year 2.
Originally, I set up a Free subscription assuming I could convert to paid at a later date. Once it is in paid mode with a number of paid subscription options (as well as single issue purchase), the magazine would also offer occasional free supplements along with the paid content. It would also offer a free 30-day trial.
However, from what I'm reading on this forum, once you utilize the Free Subscription in iTunes Connect, all subscribers who sign up for that this year will forever more be free even after the magazine converts to paid next year.
Is there a strategy to do what I'm after? Can I start with retail subscriptions (auto-renewable, for instance), but mark them free for the first year in pricing in lieu of using the free subscription? Some reading here shows that Apple may reject that.
Thanks for any insight.
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Thank you Bob for those links.
After reading them, I think I may still have to go with messy for this particular publication. I'll be launching into a resort environment among a number of already free print newspapers, style/celebrity magazines, and a number of free content websites for this region. This will be the first tablet-only magazine in the area (content will not be replicated in print or the web, other than through sharing). Though some of the other media are paid, like a few of the local newspapers, paying for a subscription would likely only work once we had enough of a subscriber base to compete with some of my competitors' readership numbers (and by competitors, I don't really mean content so much as their ability to attract advertising). So 30-60 day free trials, first issue free or even pushing publication dates out doesn't seem practical since it will be at least a year before I could really attempt a pay model at the scale that would be appropriate.
This really is a test in my particular market to see if paid advertising can support an app like this, but in order for that to work I need differentiated content (check) and a subscriber base that grows quickly (hence, the free for first year theory). I may always want this particular magazine to be free as long as the readership is growing and the advertising can support it. Pushing for a pay subscription model too early would likely slow the speed of readership growth I need to be able to adjust advertising rates upward in the future. If the magazine was already established or extending a legacy product, I would be more apt to offer the sorts of free tools provided by the retail options. I think in the beginning, on an untested product, I might be better off with simply free. But I do understand your point. I'd like to offer additional titles down the line, and this experience, I think, will let me understand when charging for subs is appropriate, and when it is not.
If I did choose, at some later date, to go to retail subs, with first issue free or trials, I can still do that, correct? I clearly see the downsides, but it might be a path I have to take in the environment I publish in. In that case, what are my options?
Thanks. Your tips and tools have helped me very much getting to this point, so I am very appreciative of your insight. Just trying to find the best way into my market with the best effect. This new magazine will be very different in our marketplace than what has gone before.
Rob

Free Vs Retail in Newsstand

Here is it,
I have a newsstand app with subscription for free available on app store.
And till now, all the issues are free to download.
I'm planning to publish one special issue for $0.99.
As it's the first charged issue for me, I'm wondering how it would appears in the app.
Situation 1: Everyone will see the 0.99 issue and everyone has to buy to download it.
Situation 2: The subscribers who subscribed before will be able download it for free, others have to buy it only.
Situation 3: The subscribers who subscribed before will be able download it for free, non-subscribers can subcribe for free immediately and get it for free; otherwises, buy it first.
Situation 4: Systerm Error, or something like that?
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Hi Tony
I can't answer all of your questions, but I know you can not have free content in the NewsStand. This is a limitation of Adobe for some reason.
I believe this will change next year, but not sure.
So with that in mind, you may need to re-think a few things.
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Free Subscription App with free issues equals empty Viewer?

Starting to sandbox our Newsstand issue, but the issue is not showing up in the viewer?
Professional DPS Account with Admin/production and development access using CS6
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Created a preview issue (folio #1)
This is Free and Public
Created App using DPS App Builder
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Free Subscription
Created App ID in iTunes Connect
In-App Purchase is set to Free Subscription
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Pointed iTunes Connect to this new issue AD (folio #2)
Assigned the correct Certificates and Mobile Provisionings
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downloaded .ipa file and sandbox on test user iPad
I see the subscription tiles in my Viewer
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Empty Viewer
suggestions?
thanks in advance.
Tom

I'm not quite following. I have the app created and ready in iTunes Connect--it is a "multi-folio with iTunes subscription" and is enabled for Newsstand. The free subscription product ID in App Builder matches the Apple ID in iTunes Connect.
We wish to launch the app with an older issue (folio) and we'll publish the current issue in the coming days. All of the issues that will be available in this app will be free. And we would obviously like the users to be notified when a new issue is available.
Do I not need an in-app purchase for this older issue--the one that will be available immediately? As I have it now, in iTunes Connect, I click on the "manage in-app purchases" and I have this first, older issue that is ready to submit. And in the "manage newsstand" section I don't have any issues.
Is this correct?

Changing from a Free Subscription Model to Paid

Hello,
We are creating a DPS App for a client with very specific needs for Entitlement for their members. Unfortunately, their server will not be available for a couple of months but they still want to get their app to market as soon as possible (originally scheduled for submission next week). They also need their members to have free access to material until the server is in place.
They now want to be on iTunes Newsstand so a subscription model is required. However, the only way I can see for this to happen simply in the interim is to offer free subscriptions until the entitlement is up and running. Once the server is in place we would resubmit the app with a paid subs model for new subscribers plus entitlement for their members.
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What happens to the free subscriptions once the paid model is in place? Do the users who have subscribed for free still have access to the folios that were available when they signed up? Or will they now be required to resubscribe (for a price) or go through entitlement.
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When we created our first app (for ourselves) we submitted it as paid subscription but with only free content (as that was all that we had available at the time). We were rejected by Apple as they said we could not ask for subscribers to pay for what was already free. Could this have been a discretionary call on the part of the Apple reviewer?
I have been looking at the option of the latest (in this case first) issue being free for first time app downloaders thinking (hoping) it would circumvent that issue - but maybe it isn't really an issue?

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2.2
We found that your app exhibited one or more bugs, when reviewed on iPad running iOS 7.1, on both Wi-Fi and cellular networks, which is not in compliance with the App Store Review Guidelines.
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I had the same rejection the first time. After looking online at Adobe I thought it was a billing issue, so managed to get that rectifed. I hadnt used a shared secret (as it hadnt shown up because, I thought, the billing wasnt setup correctly). After we corrected the billing, I had access to the shared secret which I have used.
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The app is a magazine app which is for free subscription. That's the inapp purchase. No folio in app purchases, because they are free. Sent with the first version on the magazine published, although Apple coulnt have got to it as the subscription time's out.
Help! Because this is the second rejection, it's two weeks on and I am getting close to an event which I must have the app live for.
Thanks for any help,
Matt

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I used the guide to make the issue — so I think everything is in place.
The first time around our billing wasn't setup so I didn't get to generate a shared secret. The second time I did.
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