{"id":12413,"date":"2015-10-04T10:39:13","date_gmt":"2015-10-04T14:39:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=12413"},"modified":"2015-10-04T10:39:13","modified_gmt":"2015-10-04T14:39:13","slug":"apples-30-app-store-fee-on-refunds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/04\/apples-30-app-store-fee-on-refunds\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple&rsquo;s 30% App Store Fee on Refunds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ersjoh\/status\/643936132011417600\">Johannes Erschbamer<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ersjoh\/status\/643936132011417600\">\n<p>Nice, Apple now subtracts only the developer proceeds on refunds. Previously this included Apple&rsquo;s cut, which meant a loss on every refund!<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ersjoh\/status\/644186696846671872\">Johannes Erschbamer<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ersjoh\/status\/644186696846671872\"><p>Previously I made a small loss on every refund. The one from yesterday was exactly the amount I got before.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It sounds like Apple <a href=\"https:\/\/sensortower.com\/blog\/everything-developers-need-to-know-about-app-store-transaction-costs\">still<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cultofmac.com\/9789\/updated-appstore-refund-policy-wont-bankrupt-developers\/\">reserves<\/a> the right to keep all of its fee, but that it is no longer actually doing so. In 2009, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imore.com\/apple-charging-developers-100-app-refunds\">Rene Ritchie<\/a> was unable to find any cases where Apple wasn&rsquo;t eating the fee. But I&rsquo;ve definitely heard of developers saying that they&rsquo;ve had to pay it.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Johannes Erschbamer: Nice, Apple now subtracts only the developer proceeds on refunds. Previously this included Apple&rsquo;s cut, which meant a loss on every refund! Johannes Erschbamer: Previously I made a small loss on every refund. The one from yesterday was exactly the amount I got before. It sounds like Apple still reserves the right to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[91,101,31,30,39],"class_list":["post-12413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-appstore","tag-business","tag-ios","tag-mac","tag-macappstore"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12413"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12414,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12413\/revisions\/12414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}