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App Store Server Notifications · V2

App Store Server Notifications, verified once and fanned out.

Apple sends one signed JWS to one URL. IAP Hooks validates it against Apple's certificate chain and delivers it — reliably — to every service you run.

Get your ingest URL

First 50 customers get IAP Hooks free for life.

Apple
DID_RENEWsigned JWS · x5c
IAP Hooks
verify & fan out
verified · x5c
Your APIDelivered
AnalyticsDelivered
SlackRetrying
Data warehouseDelivered
One signed notification · many destinations200 OK to Apple in < 50ms
the problem

One URL. Many systems that need to hear about it.

Apple allows only one notification URL per app.

One Production URL, one Sandbox URL. That's it. Whoever owns that URL is the only thing standing between Apple's event and the rest of your stack.

Apple retries for days until you return 200.

Your endpoint must verify the JWS, persist it, and respond fast — every time — or Apple's backoff window fills up with stale, duplicated events.

You need that event in five places.

Entitlements, analytics, finance, support, fraud. Verifying once and fanning out reliably — retries, DLQ, replay — is real infrastructure, not a forwarding rule.

verify once

x5c → Apple Root CA - G3.

App Store Server Notifications are signed, not encrypted. You verify them, you don't decrypt them. IAP Hooks walks the certificate chain on every notification before anything else happens.

  • Full x5c chain validation to Apple's root.
  • JWS signature check against the leaf certificate.
  • Bundle ID and environment cross-checked against the configured app.
  • Replay-safe: duplicate notification IDs are recognized.
Apple
DID_RENEWsigned JWS · x5c
IAP Hooks
verify & fan out
verified · x5c
Your APIDelivered
AnalyticsDelivered
SlackRetrying
Data warehouseDelivered
One signed notification · many destinations200 OK to Apple in < 50ms
supported notification types

Every type Apple sends.

V2 notificationType values supported out of the box.

SUBSCRIBEDDID_RENEWDID_FAIL_TO_RENEWEXPIREDDID_CHANGE_RENEWAL_STATUSDID_CHANGE_RENEWAL_PREFOFFER_REDEEMEDPRICE_INCREASEREFUNDREFUND_REVERSEDREFUND_DECLINEDREVOKEGRACE_PERIOD_EXPIREDRENEWAL_EXTENDEDCONSUMPTION_REQUESTTEST
Production
One URL per app.

Paste your IAP Hooks ingest URL into the Production slot in App Store Connect. Real purchases flow through immediately.

https://in.iaphooks.io/<your-app>
Sandbox
Same URL, routed by environment.

Use the same IAP Hooks ingest URL for the Sandbox slot. Events are routed by theenvironment field on the payload — you can send Sandbox to a staging destination and Production to live.

routing & payloads

Filter per destination. Raw or decoded.

Example filter
# billing-api
notificationType IN (REFUND, DID_FAIL_TO_RENEW)

# data-warehouse
notificationType = *  // everything
Payload mode

Per destination, choose Raw JWS (forward Apple's signed notification verbatim) or Decoded JSON (we verify and hand you clean fields, re-signed with your HMAC secret following Standard Webhooks).

already on cleeng, revenuecat, or rolling your own?

They forward Apple's notification to a single URL and own your subscription model. IAP Hooks is the neutral delivery layer: point the raw signed notification through it and fan out to every service — alongside Cleeng, RevenueCat, or your own backend, never in place of them.

faq

App Store Server Notifications, answered.

Get your ingest URL.

Set it once in App Store Connect. Fan out from there.

Get your ingest URL

First 50 customers get IAP Hooks free for life.

Free for life applies to the first 50 customers who connect a live Apple App Store Server Notifications integration and share occasional product feedback with us in return.