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RevenueCat Launch Highlights

Jun 24, 2025

Summary

  • The Summer 2025 RevenueCat Launch Party showcased major new features, product upgrades, and upcoming releases across experiments, paywalls, web billing, virtual currencies, developer tools, AI integrations, and a redesigned dashboard.
  • Key decisions included wide rollout of the new dashboard navigation and introduction of innovative MCP AI integration, enhanced support tools, and new payment options.
  • Attendees included Product, Engineering, Developer Experience, Design teams, and community members.
  • Actionable next steps focus on ongoing product launches, feedback collection, and targeted improvements based on user questions and chat feedback.

Action Items

  • Next week – Josh: Ship SDK, frontend, and backend updates to support new promotional offers and offer codes for paywalls.
  • Soon – Ed & Web Team: Ship unified web dashboard and Paddle billing provider support once internal testing is complete.
  • Q3 – Web Team: Release introductory offers (intro pricing) and subscription change features in web billing.
  • Coming soon – Android SDK Team: Roll out updated customer center design to Android.
  • Ongoing – RevenueCat Team: Collect and address user feedback on virtual currencies, MCP/AI integration, and new dashboard navigation.
  • By launch – Developer Experience: Finalize and publish Zendesk integration for customer support.
  • Ongoing – Paul/Developer Experience: Expand new sample app support for additional platforms beyond iOS.

What's New in Experiments

  • Added notes field to capture experiment hypotheses and learning directly within the dashboard.
  • Enabled multivariate (ABCD) tests to accelerate learning and optimization.
  • Improved customer journey table: can now view and compare all variants, including percent-change metrics between any two variants.
  • Introduced "paywall viewers" metric (currently only for RevenueCat paywalls; broader paywall conversion chart in development).
  • Enhanced workflow with "duplicate" function to quickly reuse enrollment criteria from previous experiments.

Paywalls Product Updates

  • Now possible to create paywalls without an offering for more flexible prototyping.
  • Introduced "style components" with a new sidebar for easier custom paywall design using pre-built elements (packages, buttons, social proof, etc.).
  • Added new components: image carousel, multi-tier/tabbed paywalls with customizable layouts.
  • Improved font management: upload custom fonts (OTF/TTF), SDKs automatically retrieve fonts, grouped by font family.
  • Upcoming features: sheets/bottom sheets, video support, screen size overrides, Catalyst/MacOS support, direct promotional offers/offer codes, paywalls grid view, and paywall conversion charts.
  • Capacitor SDK for paywalls is now available.

Web Product and App-to-Web Payments

  • Out of beta: web billing for unified payments on web and mobile, supporting Apple Pay/Google Pay, VAT and sales tax (Stripe Tax), and purchase link tracking.
  • US users can add web purchase buttons in apps ("app to web" flow); tools ready for broader geographies if allowed.
  • New: unified web dashboard (coming soon), more currency support, customer portal redesign for seamless post-purchase management, fully compliant invoices/receipts.
  • Paddle integration (merchant of record): enables using Paddle as a payment provider with RevenueCat features and hosted links.
  • Upcoming: introductory pricing (stackable with free trials), flexible discounting, subscription change flows (upgrade/downgrade).

Virtual Currencies

  • New beta: manage, grant, and track in-app virtual currencies (gems, tokens, credits, etc.) cross-platform via dashboard and SDK.
  • Products (consumables, subscriptions) can be linked to virtual currency grants; supports dynamic allocation for trials, renewals, and plan changes.
  • Integration with paywalls, customer center, and experiments for targeted currency offers/testing.
  • Customer balances and all events (grants, spends, renewals) are visible both in-app and in the dashboard, with support for manual grants.
  • Support for native, React Native, Flutter SDKs; Capacitor support under consideration.

Developer Tools & Sample Apps

  • New sample app guides developers step-by-step through configuration and health checks for offerings and products, highlighting setup issues.
  • Downloadable app auto-fills needed keys, configurations, and products for immediate testing on iOS; expansion to other platforms planned.
  • StoreKit config endpoint exposed for easy local testing.

AI & MCP (Model Context Protocol) Integration

  • Launched MCP extension for Cursor and VS Code, enabling AI agents to configure RevenueCat projects (apps, products, paywalls) via natural language directly in development tools.
  • Supports end-to-end setup, API key management, paywall creation, and StoreKit config fetching, reducing manual dashboard steps.
  • Cursor-specific features available; remote/server-based MCP in development.
  • Extension available in VS Code Marketplace and direct download; user feedback requested.

Customer Center Redesign

  • Refreshed self-service hub UI for managing subscriptions, purchases, and support links; now supports multiple active subscriptions and full purchase history.
  • Change plans and UI improvement for clarity, with feedback-driven enhancements underway.
  • Available on iOS and React Native; Android support planned.

Zendesk Integration

  • New Zendesk plugin (in review/beta): displays customer profile, purchases, and attributes alongside help tickets, using app user ID or email matching.
  • Supports direct profile linking, timeline of support interactions, and attribute forwarding.
  • Beta access available upon request; expansion to other platforms (e.g., Intercom) under consideration.

Dashboard Redesign

  • Introduced vertical navigation and context-driven menus to declutter UI, enable faster access, and simplify discovery of features and projects.
  • Color theming by project, improved grouping of features (charts, catalog, customers), and future scalability.
  • Immediate rollout to all users with ability to revert and submit feedback during initial transition.

Additional Product and Integration Updates

  • Not demoed: Apple Search Ads chart segmentation, new integrations (Braze, Meta Ads, Customer.io), anomaly detection notifications, and regular announcements via X (Twitter) and monthly newsletter.

Decisions

  • Move forward with new dashboard navigation — To reduce clutter, improve speed, streamline feature discovery, and support future product growth.
  • Launch MCP/AI integration in dev tools — To lower barriers for setup and encourage automation in developer workflows.
  • Release Paddle as an additional web billing provider — To expand merchant options and compliance coverage for global sellers.
  • Expand customer center and support tools — To improve end-user subscription management and reduce support friction.

Open Questions / Follow-Ups

  • What is the exact rollout timeline for Android support of the redesigned customer center?
  • When will introductory offers and plan change support for web billing exit development and become generally available?
  • Additional user requests for Capacitor and other SDK support for virtual currencies are under review.
  • Confirm timing and process for broader availability of Zendesk plugin beyond beta.
  • Monitor feedback for further improvements to dashboard navigation and MCP integration; specific roadmap adjustments may result from user input.