Can we use in-app purchase in enterprise apps for iOS?

Question

Can we use in- App purchase in an iOS App distributed as a enterprise app? If not possible can we use paypal or any other purchasing mechanism for that?Does Apple create any problem here as they did for Kindle App using payment other than their one?

Answer 1

If you're not going to publish the application in the AppStore, you can use any purchasing mechanism that you want.

Answer 2

Since the Enterprise license doesn't cover App Store integration, your bundle ID isn't registered and approved with Apple, this alone means the StoreKit can't approve any transactions because it's not aware of your application.

Even if this wasn't true, the infrastructure behind StoreKit isn't in place for Enterprise apps.

In any case you could argue that in-app purchase in an Enterprise application doesn't really make sense since you would be providing this application to employees, not customers.

Answer 3

This link shows all the types of accounts and what capabilities each of them allows: https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/IDEs/Conceptual/AppDistributionGuide/SupportedCapabilities/SupportedCapabilities.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40012582-CH38-SW1

Apple Enterprise apps do not support In App Purchase, but they support a lot of other stuff