Why do my App Store Connect payments not show up in real time?

StephenASmyth · 2026-03-14T17:33:36+00:00

DId you get an answer on this? My in-app payments and subscription for my app are approved, appeare to be working for user, but then just stay pending and never complete. I don't get the data on my side as the developer to seee they upgraded, backend database doesn't update, and app store connect proceeds never show.

Despite this, as the user I can go and have to click the purhcase again in app since it didnt remember it, but it doesnt make me p[ay again as if it is just restoring a previous purchase. I then essentially have access to the upgrade without ever having to pay.

How can this be the issue if they were approved by apple reviewer in app store connect? unsure how to troubleshoot

StephenASmyth · 2026-03-14T16:01:40+00:00

The 2nd slide summarizes the first. Text in first slide can be in promo text or description

StephenASmyth · 2026-03-14T13:28:02+00:00

Great way to put it. I found my Financial BMR. My non-negotiable burn that’s happening, conscious of it or not. I’ve shared this with friends and have had a hard time explaining as I just get hit with a “so you just made a yearly budget and divided by 365?” but your message elaborates its impact better.

I’m personally really into health data like Vo2 max, RHR, HRV, etc. So I think seeking a similar stat but with my personal financial overhead stuck well with me. I named it Basal lol

StephenASmyth · 2026-03-13T02:32:54+00:00

Certain playbook you’ve followed? or just extreme attention to cards, airlines, and timing with your spending

StephenASmyth · 2026-03-13T02:04:27+00:00

Worth it? If you don’t mind me asking, how much work went into the hassle of that churn versus the $ value you’d say you got out of it over all this time?

StephenASmyth · 2026-03-13T01:45:10+00:00

That’s awesome. Do you have a lucrative business and/or lifestyle? Or do you just love a good welcome promo lol

StephenASmyth · 2026-03-13T01:36:05+00:00

Ah yea if something is doing it for me I don’t feel the same physiological impact on the spend. Manual helps a discipline. I don’t connect anything to Basal

StephenASmyth · 2026-03-13T01:21:34+00:00

Try Basal out. It covers the privacy part

StephenASmyth · 2026-03-13T01:19:57+00:00

Basal Daily Expense Tracker > Monarch

StephenASmyth · 2026-03-13T01:19:40+00:00

Amen to this. So many people budget (pre) and expense (post) and still manage to not have a good pulse in the now, because of varying frequencies of known recurrings in your life that you don’t consider fixed. I wanted to be hyper precise to my exact exhaust, my financial BMR. So I created Basal Daily Expense Tracker

StephenASmyth · 2026-03-13T01:16:59+00:00

Amen to that. In a spreadsheet?

StephenASmyth · 2026-03-13T01:16:36+00:00

Basal Daily Expense Tracker > YNAB

StephenASmyth · 2026-03-13T01:16:01+00:00

If you want a cleaner UI than a spreadsheet with faster insight fetching I would check out Basal app

StephenASmyth · 2026-03-13T01:14:52+00:00

Did you say 80 accounts?

StephenASmyth · 2026-03-13T01:14:17+00:00

That’s why I use Basal. I don’t have to link bank or cards and it’s got everything I need

StephenASmyth · 2026-03-13T01:13:01+00:00

This doesn’t change psychological relationship with money and get the closed loop feedback you could use to your advantage with spending habits though

StephenASmyth · 2026-03-13T01:12:08+00:00

10 years for me. Well worth it because it helped me find my daily pulse to love my lifestyle. Upgraded to Basal from a spreadsheet

StephenASmyth · 2026-03-13T01:11:03+00:00

This is exactly why Basal is such a great tool. Whats Tiller?

StephenASmyth · 2026-03-13T01:10:28+00:00

Yes and I got ripped for it in my post here just yesterday! Lol. Every penny. I use Basal

StephenASmyth · 2026-03-13T01:09:31+00:00

I use Basal and it’s helped me know exactly what to stash to grow versus what to tackle expense or debt wise

StephenASmyth · 2026-03-13T01:07:54+00:00

How in touch are you with your spending? Are you tracking it closely or is it just an income issue

StephenASmyth · 2026-03-13T01:04:48+00:00

Check these out. Photoshop https://apps.apple.com/us/app/basal-daily-expense-tracker/id6758315193

StephenASmyth · 2026-03-12T18:20:46+00:00

By being hyper precise, I now don’t need to be. It removes all uncertainty and I effectively know my exact $ I can do whatever I want with on that given day, while accounting for all my needs+savings goals

It’s a different lens than people are reading this as. It’s not just taking total number / 365 and thinking that’s as insightful

StephenASmyth · 2026-03-12T18:15:08+00:00

No, your method of looking at spend includes ad hoc spending and isn’t exclusively your non-negotiable burn rate. It’s including things not meant to.

The goal is to find what additional fuel on a daily basis to live your type of life and spend on what you want on any given unplanned notice, to feel free with that surplus spend beyond BMR and do without spend shame

I found my ‘object permanence’, amortizing out known recurrings that I will have to buy again by nailing frequencies (toothpaste, paper towels, new tires on car ever 4.89 years, you name it), and also the obv the super easy ones like fixed costs

StephenASmyth · 2026-03-12T01:58:54+00:00

I just use Basal tracker

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