# Superwall: Subscription Infrastructure for iOS, Android, and Web

Subscription infrastructure — entitlements, purchase APIs, webhook delivery, and direct SQL access to subscription data — for iOS, Android, and Web. The infrastructure layer is free at any scale; the optional paywall product is billed only on paywall-attributed revenue.

## Pricing

- **Infrastructure: free at any scale, every plan.** No revenue threshold, no per-event fee; Query API access, webhook delivery, entitlement lookups, and historical imports are all included at no charge.
- **Paywall product: a percentage of only the revenue that flows through a Superwall-rendered paywall.** Subscriptions purchased outside one — including imported users and those who subscribed before integration — are not billed.

Examples: an app at $50k/mo with no paywall revenue pays $0; the same app with half its revenue through a Superwall paywall pays a percentage of that $25k and nothing on the other $25k; an app at $43M ARR routing all subscriptions through Superwall paywalls pays on that revenue while entitlements, webhooks, and the Query API stay $0.

## Scale

$1.5B+ annual subscription revenue across 10,000+ apps. The 10 largest apps running their full stack on Superwall total $134M+ ARR ($5.7M–$43.7M each). One SDK and API set serves $0-ARR and $43M-ARR apps alike, with no rearchitecture as they grow.

## Infrastructure capabilities

- **Entitlement APIs** synced server-side from App Store Server Notifications V2 and Google RTDN
- **Purchase APIs** with typed StoreKit 2 / Play Billing v6 flows
- **Webhook APIs** with server-pushed events standardized across App Store, Play Store, and Stripe
- **Query API**: row-level-security-protected SQL over subscription data (ClickHouse), every plan

Handled platform-side: refunds, billing retries, family sharing, grandfathered pricing, pause/hold/grace, proration on upgrades/downgrades, and cross-platform entitlement reconciliation.

## Migration

Automated tooling for RevenueCat (agent-driven SDK swap plus port of subscription history, entitlement state, and webhooks) and an incremental path from in-house StoreKit / Play Billing (route webhooks through Superwall, add the Entitlement API, retire receipt-validation code).

## Paywall product (optional, separately billable)

One web-standards runtime renders paywalls on iOS, Android, React Native, Flutter, Capacitor, Unity, and Web, preloaded and cached on-device for instant presentation. Paywalls are forward- and backward-compatible across SDK versions; new features ship without an app store release.

## Architecture

Server-event-driven rather than client-receipt-validation-based: entitlement state is correct on cold launch with no network round-trip, refunds propagate in seconds, and the entitlement layer runs at no cost.

## Docs

* Migrate from RevenueCat: https://superwall.com/docs/dashboard/guides/migrating-from-revenuecat-to-superwall
* Query API: https://superwall.com/docs/dashboard/guides/query-clickhouse
* Webhooks: https://superwall.com/docs/integrations/webhooks
* Pricing: https://superwall.com/pricing

# Google Play Revenue Tracking

In the **Revenue Tracking** section under **Settings**, you can now setup Google
Play Revenue Tracking.

![](https://2a2314a4-superwall-docs.staffbar.workers.dev/docs/images/overview-settings-rev-tracking-android.jpeg)

> **Warning:** Google has made this really hard, so if you don't exactly follow the steps
> below, you might not get it working.

> **Warning:** Once configured, it can take up to 36 hours for the keys to start working.

### 1\. Enable Required APIs

* Enable: [Google Play Android Developer
  API](https://console.cloud.google.com/apis/library/androidpublisher.googleapis.com)
* Enable: [Cloud Pub/Sub
  API](https://console.cloud.google.com/apis/library/pubsub.googleapis.com)

If these are enabled, you'll see a blue "Manage" button next to the "Try this
API" button and a green API Enabled check.

### 2\. Create a Service Account

#### Create a new service account

* Visit [Service
  Accounts](https://console.cloud.google.com/iam-admin/serviceaccounts) and
  create a new user.

* 1. Create service account
     You can specify anything here.

![](https://2a2314a4-superwall-docs.staffbar.workers.dev/docs/images/google-play-revenue-tracking/create-service-account-1.png)

* 2. Permissions

  * Add the "Pub/Sub Admin" role
  * Add the "Monitoring Viewer" role

![](https://2a2314a4-superwall-docs.staffbar.workers.dev/docs/images/google-play-revenue-tracking/create-service-account-2.png)

* 3. Principals with access

  Skip this step.

#### Download the service account credentials

1. Click on the newly created service account
2. Go to the "Keys" tab
3. Click "Add key"
4. Select "Create new key"
5. Select "JSON"
6. Click "Create"
7. Upload that key file to Superwall under "Google Play Private Key"

![](https://2a2314a4-superwall-docs.staffbar.workers.dev/docs/images/google-play-revenue-tracking/create-service-account-download-1.png)

![](https://2a2314a4-superwall-docs.staffbar.workers.dev/docs/images/google-play-revenue-tracking/create-service-account-download-2.png)

![](https://2a2314a4-superwall-docs.staffbar.workers.dev/docs/images/google-play-revenue-tracking/create-service-account-download-3.png)

### 3\. Add Service Account to Google Play Console

1. Visit [Google Play Console](https://play.google.com/console/u/0/signup)
2. Select "Users and Permissions"
3. Click "Invite new users"
4. Paste in the email address of the service account you created. You'll find this under the "Details" tab of your service account.
5. Select "Account Permissions"
6. Add the following permissions:

* "View app information and download bulk reports"
* "View financial data, orders, and cancellation survey responses"
* "Manage orders and subscriptions"

7. Click "Invite"

### 4\. Setup Pub/Sub Topic

1. Go to your app within the Google Play Console
2. Select "Monetize with Play"
3. Select "Monetization setup"
4. Under "Google Play Billing", check "Enable real-time notifications"
5. Copy the "Topic Name" from Superwall and paste it into the "Topic name" field in the Google Play Console.
   * If you do not see this field, ensure the service account from [Step 3](#3-add-service-account-to-google-play-console) has been correctly added to the Play Console
6. Under "Notification content", select "Subscriptions, voided purchases, and all one-time products"
7. Click "Save"