Subscriptions

Gain new subscribers any time – anywhere

Subscriptions lets you develop an ongoing relationship with your users. Mobile users subscribe directly within an app to open new revenue sources for publishers.

Easily Manage Content Delivery

We provide an API to easily add, schedule and deliver content and provide options for purchasing even more content. Once you have implemented subscriptions through the Urban Airship mobile platform, you can easily manage, track and verify the subscriptions for your app.

How it works

Once your customer has downloaded your mobile app, they can subscribe to your content through a simple in-app purchase. We create that user in our system and present your application with a user ID and password for use by that user to retrieve messages, buy subscriptions, and access content. You create subscription content with a go-live date and when that date comes around, every user with an active subscription will receive that piece of content. We support both iOS renewing configurations, non-renewing and auto-renewing configurations. Optionally, a Push notification or Rich Push message lets them know that new content is available. You can also set subscription content to be the default content for subscribers.

Features

• Subscription Management Tools

  Publishers can manage, verify, and track subscriptions.

  • Entitlement management
  • Automatic content delivery
  • User management

• Security

  Content producers and customer security is baked in.

  • Customer data is immediately converted to hashed versions, ensuring customer data protection
  • Stolen devices will be unable to access subscriptions
  • Device Authentication

• Easy Integration

  Subscription product is built on open source libraries and simple RESTful APIs that are easily integrated into any mobile app

Benefits

• Increased – And Reliable – Revenue Streams

  Publishers can move mobile customers from single-issue purchases to subscriptions.

• Subscription Management Tools

  Publishers can manage, verify, and track subscriptions – Both non-renewing and
  auto-renewing configurations for iOS.

• Customer Satisfaction

  Mobile customers now have access to lower per-issue costs through subscriptions.

• More Content

  Customers can access back issues and articles – and publishers can secure additional revenue streams. Also, customers who switch mobile devices can access missed issues.

• Secure Customer Data

  All customer data is immediately converted to hashed versions, ensuring full customer data protection.

• Device Authentication

  Publishers can ensure that only paying customers receive the subscription with device authentication capabilities that tell the publisher “this device has paid.”

• Transaction Security

  Stolen devices will be unable to access subscriptions.

• Easy Integration

  Subscription product is built on open source libraries and simple RESTful APIs that are easily integrated into any mobile app.