We are developing a platform (Ferve) where users subscribe to individual artists to access exclusive content. We use a user-centric remuneration model: each artist has an independent income pool, and funds from a specific subscription must be attributed solely to that artist. We have two critical challenges regarding our integration:
Granular Financial Reporting for User-Centric Payouts
As the Merchant of Record, Apple provides aggregate Financial Reports. However, these reports do not provide a breakdown of taxes, commissions, or exact exchange rates used for individual transactionId records. Though we can keep records of each transaction in our database, thus linking them with which artist they belong to, we are unable to collect fees/taxes applied to each individual transaction.
Because our payouts are artist-specific, we need to deduct the exact regional taxes and Apple commissions from each transaction to calculate the artist's due balance. Currently, we can only see the final consolidated balance in BRL (Brazilian Reals) at the end of the month.
Is there an API or report that provides the net proceeds and tax breakdown per transaction ID?
How can we retrieve the exact exchange rate applied to foreign currency sales (e.g., EUR to BRL) before the final consolidation?
Supporting Multiple Concurrent Subscriptions
Our current App Store Connect configuration uses a single 'Subscription Group' for all artist 'Clubs' since they share the same price points. However, we have found that users cannot subscribe to more than one product within the same group simultaneously (the App Store treats this as an upgrade/downgrade).
On our platform, a user must be able to subscribe to Artist A and Artist B at the same time.
What is the recommended architecture for this? Should we dynamically create a unique Subscription Group for every artist onboarded to our platform?
If we use unique groups, is there a limit to the number of Subscription Groups one app can have?
We appreciate the help,
Ferve
