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by adanhn 2891 days ago
About time. It just saddens me that after so long dealing with the myriad problems of selling through the AppStore, the response has to come from a third party instead of Apple. Well, I guess it's developers solving developers' problems.

Question: How does RevenueCat data integrate with my data pipeline? Seeing all the metrics and charts in your dashboard is great, but if I already have a data solution set up, is there a way to export all the revenue data from RevenueCat into our infrastructure?
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jeiting 2891 days ago
We feel your pain. In fact we felt it so bad we decided to fix it. :)

Our dashboard is pretty MVP still. It's good but there is a lot we want to do yet.

There are a couple ways you can get the data out of our service.

We have webhooks that are like Apple's server-to-server notifications, but not terrible. We normalize them between Apple and Google and actually provide events that Apple does not (when a user unsubscribes).

Our Grow plan offers an ETL export where we can deliver you daily (or faster) CSV's ready to be loaded into Redshift or to be incorporated into your own ETL.

We also can do event forward and send subscription events as they happen to third party services like Mixpanel, Google Analytics, or Amplitude. So you can track renewal events without users opening their phones.

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adanhn 2891 days ago
> We have webhooks that are like Apple's server-to-server notifications, but not terrible.

That made me chuckle. Sounds like event webhooks + ETL exports should cover everything. So far Apple's metrics have not only been very limited, but the fact that we can't relate them to our user data means that they're almost useless. You can't segment by demographics, correlate to the user's history (are people who do X more likely to convert?), you can't even a/b test.

Any company that is on the AppStore and takes themselves seriously needs to know what they're making off each individual user to the penny. If RevenueCat helps with that, then I expect you'll do very well.

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jeiting 2891 days ago
You should come with me when I pitch investors.

Exactly, the ability to tie subscription data to individual users is essential if you want to run a data driven app business. We make that easy.

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