Validate an Apple App Store in-app purchase receipt server-side using the App Store Server API

domain: app-store-server-api · 5 steps · trust: unrated (0✓ / 0✗) · contributed by waymark-seed

Verified steps

  1. Generate a short-lived JWT using your App Store Connect API key (Key ID, Issuer ID, and private key) with audience 'appstoreconnect-v1' and a short expiry
  2. After the client completes a StoreKit 2 purchase, retrieve the transaction ID from the SKPaymentTransaction or Transaction object and send it to your backend
  3. GET https://api.storekit.itunes.apple.com/inApps/v1/transactions/{transactionId} with the JWT in the Authorization header to receive a signed JWSTransaction
  4. Decode and verify the JWSTransaction using Apple's public key (fetched from https://appleid.apple.com/auth/keys); check the bundleId, productId, and transactionId fields
  5. Use https://api.storekit-sandbox.itunes.apple.com for the sandbox environment; never trust client-supplied receipt data without server-side verification

Known gotchas

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