Kickstarter - How to handle finished product/IAP as a reward

[EssentialParadox]

Well Apple have already told me explicitly that I could use the iTunes volume purchase program for a Kickstarter campaign, so I'm going to go ahead with that. If for some reason I can't do it afterwards, the onus will be on Apple to remedy it.

[mr.Ugly]

the onus.. whatever it is.. will always be on your side.. not matter what "apple" said or not..

[Kafu]

You can avoid gifting the App implementing a custom IAP purchase scheme in addition to the standard one: keep a list of device UDIDs (or something similar!) on your server, then you check if a device can unlock the game for free if its id is in the list.

It's free (no stupid auto-purchases) and simple to manage.

[jclardy]

Originally Posted by EssentialParadox

Well Apple have already told me explicitly that I could use the iTunes volume purchase program for a Kickstarter campaign, so I'm going to go ahead with that. If for some reason I can't do it afterwards, the onus will be on Apple to remedy it.

Well if it ends up you can't do it you could always go to a store and buy Apple gift cards with cash. Would take a while to enter codes, but it would keep your credit card from getting frozen.

But with volume purchase you would get a discount as well as the 70% from the sale, so you would lose less to Apple that way. Plus it would take way less time.