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Sergiy,

I have an App where I'd like to create a free and a paid version. The APP does notifications for both Android and Apple devices.

When I set up the free version - yes I can and need to use the same database for all the APP interactions. And - that works just fine. I also need - for when someone moves from my free app to the paid app - for the data and especially the notifications and my apps knowledge of his-her devices - to remain intact.

When I go to the free version - and tell the free version to use the same database for notifications - you CANNOT do that. ( the picture above - is PUSH Notifications, Database link - on that UI - you cannot use a database that's been linked to another APP --- ie your paid version).

Therein lies the problem. Since Appery does not support InAppPurchases - we need to develop free and paid versions and somehow 'encourage' people to move seemlessly and without loss of data , etc. - to the paid version. That was my plan.

I just - when I discovered this fact - gave up on that track! I'm not writing this to complain by any means - other than to just state the fact that you cannot essentially have a free and a paid version of the same APP - and share the notification engine you've built - between the two apps (if you have one - and who doesn't that writes a serious app these days).

I want to discourage anyone reading this from attempting that - and spending time on that tactic - as it won't yield fruit.

So - what's a person to do???

Answer - I'm working diligently today on finishing up the work to bring in the Cordova InAppPurchases plug in to my APP. I'm almost done (In other words - it works! ) and I have a working Appery APP that will do IOS side inAppPurchases. When I'm done with the IOS side this weekend - I'll make the work I've done available to others.. and then I'm onto the Android side.

Publicly - I'm thanking Max, Evgene, the rest of the team here, and the development team for answering the 1-2 questions I had along the way.

I'll also acknowledge for anyone that wants to know - it's not a small undertaking - Ive invested about 40 hours of my own time away from making a living - and had to phone several technical resources to get answers to a number of questions (as well as the support your team has provided) along the way - at some not small expense to me.

Best, and thanks again for the response. Sergiy, Let's close this one out as - not solved - but the poster has no interest in solving this issue .

Bruce

Hey there having the same issue Bruce. I have three different apps that all use the same database. I differentiate each device and the app it goes with by the channel. When I try to link my second or third app to the same database as the first, it isn't an option. Is there any way around this?

Hello Ellen,

It is possible to use database in only one app with enabled push notifications.

Is there any chance of that changing? I don't understand why it would not be possible.

Hello Ellen,

Unfortunately this can't be changed due to security. We want to be sure that that you can't receive push in one app, but it was sent to another one.