iOS in app-purchase receipt validation - sandbox vs production url?

Question

I followed Ray Wenderlich\'s tutorial to implement receipt validation in my app. The code connects to Apple\'s validation server directly from my app rather than going thro

Answer 1

It could fail. I had an app with in app purchases (but not based on my server, straight apple code) that work in development but crashed once released by Apple. It crashed because I had not done all the proper steps in iTunes Connect.

The surprising thing was that the reviewers didn't catch this, presumably since they were also working in a sandboxed environment.

I'm not sure this helps you, hope it does.