Apple Grants Temporary Reprieve on 30% Fee to SMBs Running Facebook Paid Online Events

The exemption runs through Dec. 31 but does not include gaming creators

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Apple reversed course and agreed not to collect its 30% iTunes App Store cut of paid online event transactions via Facebook through the end of this year, paving the way for the social network to enable businesses to keep 100% of their earnings from paid online events from now through Dec. 31.

Apple’s exception does not apply to Facebook Gaming creators.

The social network introduced the option in August for page administrators of pages for businesses, creators, educators and media publishers to create online events, set prices for “attending,” promote those events, collect payments and host the events.

Facebook said at the time that it would not collect any fees from paid online events through at least August 2021.

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