Orchard: App Store revenue alerts
Get a lock-screen notification with the amount whenever someone buys, renews or refunds
- Problem
- Indie devs can only check subscription revenue through the App Store Connect web UI: orders show up the next day, it's awkward on mobile, and real-time numbers rarely match the next day's report — because daily reports don't all split by Pacific time, and China actually rolls over at 11pm Beijing time.
- Solution
- A small mobile tool that pushes a lock-screen notification with the amount on each purchase, renewal or refund and adds up today's revenue in real time. When the next day's report arrives it reconciles automatically and points to the exact mismatched transactions, plus trends, subscriber counts, MRR, a renewal calendar and review replies.
- Users
- Indie developers and small teams with in-app purchases or subscriptions on the App Store
- MVP
- Connect via App Store Connect; push notifications for purchases, renewals and refunds; real-time daily revenue total; next-day auto-reconciliation with mismatch details; basic trend charts
- Revenue
- Monthly subscription (~$3–5) or tiered by number of apps; a free tier keeps only today's number
- Why now
- The indie subscription economy is mature, and revenue checks are a daily high-frequency action while the official dashboard remains poor; timezone-split quirks like this are best known by frontline developers