bundles-and-licensing

App bundles group up to 10 of your own paid apps in App Store Connect at a single bundle price, with Complete My Bundle crediting what users already paid. Only paid apps or apps sharing one subscription can be bundled; free apps cannot.

Enable Family Sharing when the subscription's job is shareable, such as utilities, education, or health apps, since one purchase covers up to six family members. Avoid it for per-seat B2B products where sharing cannibalizes real seats, and note enabling is effectively irreversible for existing customers.

Family entitlements arrive outside any purchase flow via Transaction.updates, often after a delay. Check ownershipType to distinguish PURCHASED from FAMILY_PURCHASED, verify entitlement before merchandising, and handle revocationDate plus REVOKE server notifications by re-deriving entitlements from full transaction history.

Group Purchases and volume purchasing through Apple Business Manager or Apple School Manager let institutions buy seats in bulk. It requires StoreKit 2 auto-renewable subscriptions and supports up to 5 configurable price bands with per-band seat thresholds in App Store Connect.

Cross-developer suites combine subscriptions from different developers into one offering, but the capability is recent and terms are still settling. Verify current App Store Connect mechanics before committing, and consider coordinated pricing with mutual offer codes as a fallback.

Avoid building custom seat management UI before validating that institutional buyers actually exist. The built-in Group Purchases flow with invite links and acceptance tracking covers initial sales; use the App Store Server API group endpoints only if you already run member management.