Letting Merchant Account registration lapse - what happens?

I've received a notification that my Merchant Account annual payment is coming up. To be honest I've been pretty disappointed in the deal; a relatively high yearly fee with minimal support or improvement in the store ecosystem (one could argue that it has even degraded). So I'm thinking about not renewing.

I'd like to understand what happens with the apps sold via the Merchant Account;

Will the users continue to have access to their apps?
Will those apps disappear from the app store?
If they will disappear, how could a user who paid restore them if desired?

0 flocsy🤠 20 days ago

Good questions, and Garmin should answer them, but even if they don't, you can do a few things:

1. You will probably decide to release the same apps as either a free app (easy), or an app with 3rd party payment (some work), and lead the existing paying users to the new apps

2. If it'll be paid, then you will probably have a way to give free access to the users who already paid via Garmin. I don't know how will you do this. I mean it'll be a lot of manual work for you I guess, and probably users will have a hard time proving to you that they paid via Garmin.