Geoff Pado — Thoughts about Stuff

App Store Receipt Validation Oddness

I’m trying to fill Google with some helpful tips, since I took forever trying to figure this out.

If you’re trying to validate receipts with a test account for the Mac App Store, and it’s silently failing without installing the receipt, check Console.app. If you see something like this:

1/30/11 1:16:07 AM storeagent[62006] promptResponse: <CKSignInPromptResponse:0x103c88c60 returnCode:1>

…then you have the same problem I did. Turns out you need to have all your app information entered in iTunes Connect (the sales/pricing site, not the App ID/provisioning site) before the App Store will generate receipts for it. Just having an App ID for your app isn’t enough.

Hopefully this helps at least someone.