What is Family Sharing for in-app purchases?

You enable Family Sharing for each product in App Store Connect, and customers choose whether to share. Each family member's transaction carries an ownership type that tells you whether the person bought the product or received it through sharing. You process shared purchases the same way as normal ones, and you must handle a family member losing access. Apple sends a REVOKE notification to your server then. A first-time shared subscription arrives as SUBSCRIBED, and a shared non-consumable arrives as ONE_TIME_CHARGE.

Because family members do not pay, shared access should not count as revenue. A subscription that is shared can also change your subscriber counts, so decide whether you count family members as subscribers.

RevenueDot stores the ownership type, and it excludes Family Sharing purchases from every money and subscription chart, so MRR and active subscriptions count only the people who pay.

Sources: Apple: Supporting Family Sharing in your app · Apple: Auto-renewable subscriptions · Apple: notificationType