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Setting Up the 'Purchases' Preset to Get Live Purchase Data
TelemetryDeck ships with a set of insights that can be useful to track your revenue within the last few hours with live purchase data. Here's how to set them up.
Why Track Purchases?
If you are offering In-App Purchases in your app, you might have noticed some delay in officially reported purchase stats. For example, App Store Connect charts do not offer any purchase data for the last 3 hours. Such a delay can be annoying sometimes such as at the day of your app launch or a specific live event related to your app. On top of that, App Store Connect in particular signs you out of your account regularly, making it annoying to quickly look up purchase statistics.
That’s why you might want to set up a signal in your application to track purchases in your app through TelemetryDeck with just a couple of seconds delay, providing you with the live data you want.
You can use these methods to include your purchase data in TelemetryDeck:
- If you’re already using RevenueCat, you can use the RevenueCat Integration
- If you’re using FreemiumKit, you can connect that to TelemetryDeck
See the sections below for a detailed description.
Using TelemetryDeck with RevenueCat
If you use RevenueCat, you can use our RevenueCat Setup Guide.
Using FreemiumKit
If you use FreemiumKit, just add their SDKs .onPurchaseCompleted view modifier to your main view. It passes the transaction parameter to the closure, which you can directly pass to TelemetryDeck.purchaseCompleted(transaction: transaction). Read the related section in their setup guide to learn more.
Effect on Privacy & App Tracking Transparency
If you are using a 3rd-party service like RevenueCat, you don’t need to change your privacy labels at all because you’re sending way less data to TelemetryDeck than you are already to those services. So if you’ve followed their guides, you should be good.
If you aren’t using a 3rd-party library, you are now sending purchase history data to TelemetryDeck. So make sure to mark the checkbox for “Analytics” in the “Purchase History” entry in your App Privacy page.
You can answer all subsequent questions with “No” because we neither link collected data to the users identity, nor do we use them for tracking purposes.
When all is configured your “Purchases” entry in your App Privacy page should end up looking like this:
