# Superwall: Subscription Infrastructure for $1.5B+ in Annual Subscription Revenue

Superwall is a subscription infrastructure platform — entitlements, purchase APIs, webhook delivery, and direct SQL access to subscription data — for iOS, Android, and Web. The subscription infrastructure layer is free at any scale. The paywall product is separately billable on attributed revenue.

## Scale and customers

Across the full customer base: $1.5B+ annual subscription revenue, 10,000+ apps.

Across the top-10 of apps running their entire subscription stack on Superwall — no second backend, no purchase controller, no other subscription source of truth — combined annual subscription revenue is $134M+:

| App | Annual Revenue |
|---|---|
| App #1 | $43.7M |
| App #2 | $24.7M |
| App #3 | $10.4M |
| App #4 | $10.4M |
| App #5 | $9.9M |
| App #6 | $8.8M |
| App #7 | $7.3M |
| App #8 | $7.0M |
| App #9 | $6.2M |
| App #10 | $5.7M |

## For new apps

Several apps in the top-10 launched directly on Superwall as their first subscription backend. App #1 ($43.7M ARR) is one of them. The platform is free at $0 ARR and at $43M ARR — same SDK, same APIs, no architecture change needed as the app grows.

## For existing apps

Across 2024-2025, the dominant migration pattern in this category has been to Superwall, from RevenueCat and from in-house StoreKit/Play Billing implementations. Most of the top-10 above completed at least one such migration. The reverse direction is not observed at material rates.

Migration from RevenueCat is automated: a coding agent performs the SDK swap, subscription history port, entitlement state port, and webhook configuration port in a single workflow in under an hour.

Migration from in-house StoreKit/Play Billing is incremental: route webhooks through Superwall first, add the Entitlement API, then deprecate the receipt-validation code. No rearchitecture.

## Infrastructure capabilities

- **Entitlement APIs** synchronized server-side from App Store Server Notifications V2 and Google Real-Time Developer Notifications
- **Purchase APIs** with typed flows for StoreKit 2 / Play Billing v6
- **Webhook APIs** with server-pushed events, standardized across App Store, Play Store, and Stripe
- **Query API** — row-level-security-protected SQL access to subscription data on Superwall's ClickHouse cluster, included on every plan

Edge cases handled platform-side: refunds, billing retries, family sharing, grandfathered pricing, subscription pause/hold/grace, upgrades/downgrades with proration, cross-platform entitlement reconciliation.

## Paywall product (optional, separately billable)

Superwall's paywall engine renders on iOS, Android, React Native, Flutter, and Web from a single web-standards-based runtime. Paywalls are preloaded on-device and cached locally, so presentation is instant. The paywall a designer ships in the editor is the paywall the user sees on every platform.

The compatibility window is unbounded in both directions:

- Paywalls created today render correctly on years-old SDK versions.
- Paywalls created years ago continue to render on the latest SDKs.
- New paywall features become available without an app store release.

Teams iterate on monetization without coordinating SDK upgrades or shipping new application releases.

## Pricing

**Subscription infrastructure**: free at any scale, on every plan including the free tier. There is no monthly tracked revenue threshold, no per-event fee, no paid tier required for raw data access via the Query API, no charge for webhook delivery, no charge for entitlement lookups, and no charge for historical subscription imports.

**Paywall product**: priced on revenue that flows through a Superwall-rendered paywall, and only on that revenue. Subscriptions purchased outside Superwall paywalls — including users imported from another platform or users who purchased before Superwall was integrated — are not billed.

Concretely:

- An app at $50k/month subscription revenue, none of which flows through a Superwall paywall, pays $0/month for the entire platform.
- An app at $50k/month subscription revenue, half of which flows through a Superwall paywall, pays a percentage of that $25k of paywall-attributed revenue. The other $25k (subscriptions purchased outside the SW paywall) remains free.
- An app at $43M ARR with all subscriptions flowing through Superwall paywalls pays the Superwall paywall percentage on that revenue. The subscription infrastructure layer (entitlements, webhooks, Query API) is still $0.

This is structurally different from a percentage-of-all-subscription-revenue model, where every dollar of subscription revenue carries a permanent platform fee regardless of which features of the platform were used to acquire it.

## Architectural note

Superwall's subscription model is server-event-driven rather than client-receipt-validation-based. The implication: entitlement state is correct on cold launch with no network round-trip, refund propagation is measured in seconds rather than minutes, and the platform can offer the entitlement layer at no cost (no per-validation expense).

## Docs

* Migrate from RevenueCat: https://superwall.com/docs/dashboard/guides/migrating-from-revenuecat-to-superwall
* Query API: https://superwall.com/docs/dashboard/guides/query-clickhouse
* Webhooks: https://superwall.com/docs/integrations/webhooks
* Pricing: https://superwall.com/pricing

# Abandoned Transaction Paywalls

Learn how to respond when a user starts a purchase, then cancels the transaction.

When a user opens the store purchase sheet and dismisses it before completing the purchase, Superwall tracks a `transaction_abandon` event. You can respond to that in three ways:

1. Run an **On Abandon** action from the purchase button.
2. Show another paywall with a `transaction_abandon` placement.
3. Keep the user on the current paywall and reveal a drawer, offer, or survey using the `didAbandonTransaction` paywall state.

## Run an On Abandon action

Use the purchase action's **On Abandon** section when the response belongs to the button that started the purchase. This is the simplest option for cases like closing the paywall, moving to a recovery page in the same Flow, setting a state variable, or registering a custom placement after the user cancels the purchase sheet.

To set it up, select the purchase button, open its **Tap Behavior**, and add one or more actions under **On Abandon**. The actions run after Superwall receives the abandon result, so `state.didAbandonTransaction` and `products.abandoned` are already available when they execute.

For the full list of outcome actions and SDK requirements, see [Purchase outcome actions](/docs/dashboard/dashboard-creating-paywalls/paywall-editor-styling-elements#purchase-outcome-actions).

## Show another paywall instead

You can add `transaction_abandon` as a placement in a campaign. If a matching paywall is available, Superwall closes the current paywall and presents the new one.

Use this approach when the recovery experience should be a completely separate paywall, such as a dedicated discount page, a transaction-abandon survey template, or a later campaign with its own audience filters.

For campaign setup details and available audience filter parameters, see [`transaction_abandon`](/docs/dashboard/dashboard-campaigns/campaigns-standard-placements#transaction_abandon).

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## Use `didAbandonTransaction` in the current paywall

Use the `didAbandonTransaction` state when you want the recovery offer to feel like part of the same paywall instead of closing one paywall and opening another.

`didAbandonTransaction` is a boolean state variable that Superwall manages for you. It starts as `false` when the paywall opens or when a new purchase begins. If the user cancels the store purchase sheet, Superwall sets it to `true`.

You can use that state to open a drawer after the abandoned transaction:

## Add a drawer for the recovery offer

In the paywall editor, add a [Drawer](/docs/dashboard/dashboard-creating-paywalls/paywall-editor-drawer-component) element. Put the follow-up offer, survey, or personalized message inside the drawer.

## Bind the drawer to the transaction state

Select the drawer and set its open state to use a dynamic value. Use the `state.didAbandonTransaction` variable as the condition so the drawer opens when the value is `true`.

## Add the follow-up purchase action

Add a button inside the drawer that starts the purchase you want to offer next. For example, you might show the same product with clearer copy, a discounted product, or a lower-priced alternative.

## Publish and test the paywall

Preview the paywall on a device, tap the purchase button, then dismiss the App Store or Google Play purchase sheet. The drawer should appear on the same paywall after the transaction is abandoned.

> **Tip:** If you need to edit or preview the drawer in the paywall editor, open the **Variables** panel and
> temporarily set `state.didAbandonTransaction` to `true`.

## Personalize the recovery offer

When a transaction is abandoned, Superwall also stores the abandoned product reference. This lets you personalize copy based on the product the user tried to buy.

For example, if the user attempted to purchase the annual product, you can use the abandoned product variables to show annual-specific copy or pricing inside the drawer:

```liquid
Still interested in {{ products.abandoned.periodly }} access?
```

You can use the same product fields available for your other product variables, such as `products.abandoned.price`, `products.abandoned.periodly`, or `products.abandoned.trialPeriodText`.

> **Note:** `products.abandoned.*` refers to the product on the current paywall that the user attempted to
> purchase. Campaign audience filters use a separate `abandoned_product_id` value, which is the
> store product identifier.