Treat free in app purchase as already purchased from the start

Question

I am developing an iOS app which allows in-app purchases.

The in-app purchases are basically different themes/characters for the app.

I offer the default for free (obviously), and some more paid themes.

I implemented the store UI as a table view.

Now this is the part I'm concerned about: I added a free in-app purchase entry for the default theme. My code can identify the free products when it gets the product list from Apple infrastructure, and I treat the free ones as if the user has already purchased them (UI is set as product was purchased, user can use the theme).

My question: is this behaviour is acceptable by apple reviewers or my app/in-app purchase will be rejected for this?

Answer 1

What is the purpose of adding the free in-app purchase? I don't know much about the review guidelines, but it sounds like the kind of thing they would reject your app for. It would probably be easier to detect the default kit in some way other than a free in-app purchase.

EDIT: An alternative would be to add the default theme to the list after the list is retrieved from IAP. You could create a class that holds all the same information, but can be constructed with either data from IAP or from the default theme data.