How the updates for the UWP paid version app work?

Question

We have two types of a UWP app, one is a lite version and another  pro version which is paid and have more features. These are maintained separately and have different versions and submitted separately to the store with different appx packages and under different appnames.

The lite version is free and there are no issue for the updates.

The question is on the paid version. If a user buys the paid version , if a new update is available he should not pay for the updates for a certain period or till a certain major version.

How to handle this?  Is this readily available through the Microsoft store framework?

Answer 1

Hello,

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If a user buys the paid version, if a new update is available he should not pay for the updates for a certain period or till a certain major version.

This is not possible for a paid app. If user purchased a paid app, then the user will own the app. The customer won't need to pay for the app again no matter how much time has passed or whether it has a major update.

What you want might be the Subscription add-on. You could use subscriptions to sell digital products in your app (such as app features or digital content) with automated recurring billing periods. When user paid for the add-on, he could use all the function for a period of time. After the subscription expires, the user will not be able to use the functions.(By checking the subscription add-on license in your app manually).

Thank you.

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