How the updates for the UWP paid version app work?

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How the updates for the UWP paid version app work?

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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?

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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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DotNET Fan 276 Reputation points

2023-02-17T10:56:03.3066667+00:00
Ok, thanks @Roy Li

So how does the paid app deployment work for the below scenarios ?

Multiple computers with windows 10/11 , how to limit the installation?

Reinstallation of windows

Sharing of windows store credentials
Anonymous

2023-02-20T02:36:56.0166667+00:00

@DotNET Fan The certificate are managed by the store app in your system. You can't share the license of the store app. When you reinstall the windows system, you could still get the purchased app for free. What you need to do is just sign in the Store app with the account which you purchased the app. Then you could download it for free. I'm not sure what you mean by limit the installation, you could set the min target version to win11 if you only want to have your app be installed on windows 11 devices.
DotNET Fan 276 Reputation points

2023-02-20T08:03:48.97+00:00

@Roy Li for eg: If a user purchases the app from windows store and installs to a particular system , then goes to another windows machine and logins to the windows store app . Will he able to install the app in that machine also? When i say limit the installation , what i mean is , the purchased app should be allowed to install only on one system not on multiple systems.
Anonymous

2023-02-20T08:12:30.12+00:00

Let's say a user could have multiple devices, what you want to do means that the customer needs to purchase your app multiple times if he wants to use your app in different devices. This is not supported by Microsoft Store.
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2023-02-20T08:59:50.61+00:00

Oh that means , if a user purchases the app , he can install the app on umpteen no of devices with no restrictions. So what if the user shares the username/password to other internet users and they will be able to install it?
Anonymous

2023-02-20T09:20:38.6366667+00:00

The question has two parts. The account which purchased the app could install the app as long as the account has logged in the Store because the account has the credential. This is by design. But whether the user shares his account to others is out of the scope of our forum support.

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