Create an auto-renewable subscription group and subscription in App Store Connect, then set its price from a price point and configure territory availability
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Documented steps
Create the group: POST https://api.appstoreconnect.apple.com/v1/subscriptionGroups with {"data":{"type":"subscriptionGroups","attributes":{"referenceName":"Premium"},"relationships":{"app":{"data":{"type":"apps","id":"<appId>"}}}}}. referenceName is internal and not shown to customers. 201 returns the group id.
Add a customer-facing group name: POST https://api.appstoreconnect.apple.com/v2/subscriptionGroupLocalizations with {"data":{"type":"subscriptionGroupLocalizations","attributes":{"locale":"en-US","name":"Premium"},"relationships":{"subscriptionGroup":{"data":{"type":"subscriptionGroups","id":"<groupId>"}}}}}. Use v2, not v1.
Create the subscription: POST https://api.appstoreconnect.apple.com/v1/subscriptions with {"data":{"type":"subscriptions","attributes":{"name":"Premium Monthly","productId":"com.example.premium.monthly","subscriptionPeriod":"ONE_MONTH","familySharable":false,"groupLevel":1,"reviewNote":"..."},"relationships":{"group":{"data":{"type":"subscriptionGroups","id":"<groupId>"}}}}}
subscriptionPeriod enum: ONE_WEEK, ONE_MONTH, TWO_MONTHS, THREE_MONTHS, SIX_MONTHS, ONE_YEAR. The new subscription starts in state MISSING_METADATA.
Add the customer-facing localization: POST https://api.appstoreconnect.apple.com/v2/subscriptionLocalizations with {"data":{"type":"subscriptionLocalizations","attributes":{"locale":"en-US","name":"Premium Monthly","description":"..."},"relationships":{"subscription":{"data":{"type":"subscriptions","id":"<subscriptionId>"}}}}}
Look up a valid price point BEFORE pricing: GET https://api.appstoreconnect.apple.com/v1/subscriptions/{id}/pricePoints?filter[territory]=USA. Each subscriptionPricePoints object has an opaque id plus attributes customerPrice, proceeds, proceedsYear2 and a territory relationship.
Set the price using that price point: POST https://api.appstoreconnect.apple.com/v1/subscriptionPrices with {"data":{"type":"subscriptionPrices","relationships":{"subscription":{"data":{"type":"subscriptions","id":"<subscriptionId>"}},"subscriptionPricePoint":{"data":{"type":"subscriptionPricePoints","id":"<pricePointId>"}},"territory":{"data":{"type":"territories","id":"USA"}}}}}
Repeat the lookup-then-price cycle per territory, or inspect Apple's suggested equivalents with GET /v1/subscriptionPricePoints/{id}/equalizations.
Configure territory availability. Apple's docs flag the /v1/subscriptionAvailabilities collection as DEPRECATED in favor of a newer plan-availability mechanism surfaced as /v1/subscriptions/{id}/planAvailabilities — check the current documentation before building on either path.
Poll GET /v1/subscriptions/{id} and watch attributes.state through the enum MISSING_METADATA, READY_TO_SUBMIT, WAITING_FOR_REVIEW, IN_REVIEW, DEVELOPER_ACTION_NEEDED, PENDING_BINARY_APPROVAL, APPROVED, REJECTED, REMOVED_FROM_SALE, DEVELOPER_REMOVED_FROM_SALE.
Once localization, price, availability and the review screenshot are in place the subscription should reach READY_TO_SUBMIT; it is then submitted for review with an app version or via its own review workflow.
Modify mutable attributes with PATCH /v1/subscriptions/{id}; remove an unapproved subscription with DELETE /v1/subscriptions/{id}.
Official docs: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/appstoreconnectapi/subscriptions | https://developer.apple.com/documentation/appstoreconnectapi/subscription-price-points-and-subscription-prices | https://developer.apple.com/documentation/appstoreconnectapi/post-v1-subscriptionprices | https://developer.apple.com/documentation/appstoreconnectapi/managing-auto-renewable-subscriptions
Known gotchas
You cannot set a price by amount. You MUST look up an existing subscriptionPricePoints id for the subscription and territory and reference it — arbitrary decimal prices are rejected.
Apple documents filter[territory] on the pricePoints list as something that should be used on all requests and warns it will be REQUIRED in a future release. Always send it.
/v1/subscriptionAvailabilities and the subscriptionAvailability relationship are explicitly deprecated in Apple's docs in favor of a newer Subscription Plan Availability mechanism. Verify the current shape before writing new integrations.
subscriptionGroupLocalizations exists in v1 (list/read only, deprecated) and v2 (full CRUD). Create and update via /v2.
subscriptionLocalizations create/update/delete only exist under /v2/subscriptionLocalizations; the v1 relationship path is list/read only.
Product metadata changes — new subscriptions, prices, groups — can take up to 1 hour to propagate to the sandbox testing environment.
groupLevel controls upgrade/downgrade/crossgrade ranking within the group, not display order. A wrong level silently changes which tier customers are offered when switching plans.
Creating these resources requires an App Manager or Admin role. A valid JWT on a lower-privilege key returns 403 on the POSTs.
Apple's docs do not enumerate exactly which sub-resources (introductory offers, promotional offers, review screenshot) are mandatory to leave MISSING_METADATA — verify against the live state field rather than assuming.
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