title: Is it possible to provide free taster period within Non-Renewing Subscription for iPhone apps?
body: <p>The app we are creating delivers information which updates on a daily basis, how to provide a free taster is unclear to me. Can you help?</p>
  
  <p>Info on Non-Renewing Subscription from p149 of the iTC developer Guide, p151 states Inn-App purchase cannot be free. </p>
  
  <p><a href="https://itunesconnect.apple.com/docs/iTunesConnect_DeveloperGuide.pdf" rel="nofollow">https://itunesconnect.apple.com/docs/iTunesConnect_DeveloperGuide.pdf</a></p>
  
  <p>■ Non-Renewing Subscriptions have been used in the past for services with a limited duration. An example of this would be a magazine or newspaper that requires users to renew their own subscriptions. Non-renewing subscriptions can still be offered, but auto-renewable subscriptions are now preferred for the following reasons:</p>
  
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  <li>When creating an auto-renewable subscription, you can easily set up the various durations that you want to offer. Non-renewing subscriptions do not have this feature, so you must provide the information some other way. As this is often done in the display name, you end up with a separate listing for every possible duration. By contrast, auto-renewable subscriptions allow you to have a single listing where the user simply chooses one of the durations that you offer.</li>
  <li>Because a non-renewing subscription requires a user to renew each time, your app must contain code that recognizes when the subscription is due to expire. It must also prompt the user to purchase a new subscription. An auto-renewable subscription eliminates these steps.</li>
  <li>As part of iOS, an auto-renewable subscription will automatically be delivered to all devices associated with the user’s Apple ID. To make device-syncing available for a non-renewing subscription, you would have to create your own delivery system.</li>
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