We have just soft launched our ios app and have gained a few paying customers.

The only downside is that apple payouts for purchases in Oct are scheduled for December.

I get that they have a large control on mobile market but this just seems outrageous for startups.

Anyone else experienced this and have any work arounds. I have been seeing quite a few apps use onboarding funnels hosted on their website which tied to stripe payments. I am guessing they then use this to grant paid access on the app bypassing apple.

Is this the only way?