UWP app, How to let a user to decide to upgrade to new version with different pricing?

Question

I have a UWP app with one time purchase.
I've done major change on the app and want to go with yearly subscription.

For existing app user, I like to pops up a window asking if they want to upgrade or not.
Some might wants to stay because they keep it old version without any further payment.
Some might wants to upgrade for new features.

How can I program this, controlling the upgrade?
Any example or doc for this?

Thank you,

Answer 1

Hello,

Welcome to Microsoft Q&A!

The upgrade of UWP apps is managed by the Microsoft Store. When you submit a new package in the store, the Microsoft Store will automatically update the app after detecting the version update. The UWP app cannot prevent itself from upgrading. That means all the users will update your app to the latest version which uses subscription.

You can consider keeping the old version of the application, then create a new application, and encourage users to migrate to the new version if they are willing to pay for the subscription.

In this way, you can continue to maintain a one-time payment in the old application, use the annual subscription in the new application.

Thanks.