Creating Products

In-skill purchases enable users to add additional content and functionality to a skill while they are using the skill. For example, a skill that teaches a foreign language might provide some essential language lessons for free, but may offer upgrade packs for additional languages or advanced language usage for 99 cents each.

There are three kinds of ISPs that a skill may offer:

  • Entitlements—One-time purchases that add a feature or content to the skill that will be available to the user from the time of purchase going forward

  • Consumables—Purchases that enable a feature or content that will be taken away once used and must be purchased again

  • Subscriptions—Purchases that enable a feature or content for a specified period of ...

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