Weather Up · B2C · weather app with widgets
Test $40 against $39.99 for the yearly plan
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What they did
Using Apple's newer price points, created a second annual SKU at $39.99 alongside the $40 one in App Store Connect and ran the split in RevenueCat Experiments without touching code, shipping an update or testing in sandbox.
What happened
Running; not enough traffic yet.
- Stage
- growth
“I changed the price on App Store Connect. I already had two SKUs, and so I changed the other annual SKU to 39.99. I left the existing SKU at 40, and I set it all up in RevenueCat to run this subsequent experiment without touching code”
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