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Managing Apps

The Apps page (accessible via Admin | Apps) is used to manage your team’s brainCloud applications.

It’s important to understand that Apps in brainCloud are generally in one of two states:

  • In Development – in development apps are free in brainCloud, but with limitations
    (i.e. the maximum of 100 users per day, no real in-app purchases, max 1000 users lifetime)
  • Live – live apps have no run-time restrictions and are associated with a brainCloud subscription plan.

Via this page, you can:

  • View the current status of your apps
  • Disable / Re-Enable – temporarily disables end-users ability to log into your app.
  • Go Live – publish your app, associating it with a subscription plan
  • Apply coupon – apply a coupon for pricing discounts
  • Refresh – sync with the billing system to refresh the app’s status

Developers can perform an operation on an app by clicking on the Action button and choosing the associated menu option.

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Important information displayed on this screen:

  • # Users – this is the total number of end-user accounts associated with the game.  It is refreshed nightly, so you won’t see it update in real-time.
  • Publishing – indicates whether your app is Live or not.  Live apps show “Live”, with the name of the associated subscription plans.  Apps that are still in development display the [Go Live!] button.
  • Status – whether the app is Enabled or Not.
  • Run Status – the run-time status of your app. Indicates whether brainCloud is doing any special checks (to enforce limitations) as users log in.
  • Discounts – whether or not any discounts have been applied to the subscription pricing of the app

For more information on publishing apps, refer to the Publishing Apps page.