# 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

# Subscription Status

Methods for getting and setting the user's subscription status.

> **Warning:** **Deprecated SDK**We strongly recommend migrating to the new [Superwall Expo SDK](/docs/expo), see our [migration guide](/docs/expo/guides/migrating-react-native) for details.

## Purpose

Methods for managing the user's subscription status. When using a `PurchaseController`, you must call `setSubscriptionStatus()` to update the user's subscription status whenever entitlements change.

## Methods

### getSubscriptionStatus()

Retrieves the current subscription status of the user.

**Signature:**

```typescript
async getSubscriptionStatus(): Promise<SubscriptionStatus>
```

**Returns:** A Promise that resolves to the current `SubscriptionStatus`.

**Usage:**

```typescript
const status = await Superwall.shared.getSubscriptionStatus()
console.log("Subscription status:", status)
```

### setSubscriptionStatus()

Sets the subscription status of the user. When using a `PurchaseController`, you must call this method to update the user's subscription status. Alternatively, you can implement the [`SuperwallDelegate.subscriptionStatusDidChange`](/docs/react-native/sdk-reference/SuperwallDelegate) delegate callback to receive notifications whenever the subscription status changes.

**Signature:**

```typescript
async setSubscriptionStatus(status: SubscriptionStatus): Promise<void>
```

**Parameters:**

<TypeTable
  type="{
  status: {
    type: &#x22;SubscriptionStatus&#x22;,
    description: &#x22;The new subscription status.&#x22;,
    required: true,
  },
}"
/>

**Returns:** A Promise that resolves once the subscription status has been updated.

**Usage:**

```typescript
import { SubscriptionStatus } from "@superwall/react-native-superwall"

// Set active subscription with entitlements
const activeStatus = SubscriptionStatus.Active(["pro"])
await Superwall.shared.setSubscriptionStatus(activeStatus)

// Set inactive subscription
const inactiveStatus = SubscriptionStatus.Inactive()
await Superwall.shared.setSubscriptionStatus(inactiveStatus)
```

## SubscriptionStatus Type

The `SubscriptionStatus` type represents the user's subscription state:

* `SubscriptionStatus.Active(entitlements: string[] \| Entitlement[])` - User has an active subscription with the specified entitlements
* `SubscriptionStatus.Inactive()` - User does not have an active subscription
* `SubscriptionStatus.Unknown()` - Subscription status is unknown

## When to Update

* After a successful purchase
* After a purchase restoration
* When a subscription expires
* When a subscription is cancelled
* On app launch (to sync with your backend)

## Related

* [`PurchaseController`](/docs/react-native/sdk-reference/PurchaseController) - Handle purchases and update subscription status
* [`SuperwallDelegate`](/docs/react-native/sdk-reference/SuperwallDelegate) - Receive subscription status change notifications