Build it. Launch it. Keep it running.
Some applications need technical management after launch — maintenance, third-party integrations, cloud services, subscription infrastructure, security and compatibility updates, monitoring, support and continued development. If your project includes ongoing managed services, the applicable monthly retainer and the services it covers are defined in your agreement.
Apps that charge money are ongoing systems.
Applications using RevenueCat, in-app purchases, subscriptions, premium entitlements or recurring billing require an ongoing monthly maintenance and management retainer. This is stated up front, before a project starts — it is part of what you are buying, not a charge that appears after launch.
Ongoing development, maintenance and management of the application and the integrations we support.
Separate costs, billed by the providers themselves under their own terms:
The work that keeps monetization working.
- ✓RevenueCat integration maintenance
- ✓Subscription entitlement management
- ✓App Store billing integration maintenance
- ✓Google Play billing integration maintenance
- ✓SDK updates
- ✓API and integration maintenance
- ✓Subscription-state troubleshooting
- ✓Restore-purchase functionality
- ✓Premium feature access management
- ✓OS and dependency compatibility updates
- ✓Bug fixes in supported monetization infrastructure
- ✓Adapting to App Store and Google Play technical changes
- ✓Monitoring and ongoing technical support
Examples, not a service-level guarantee. The specific services, exclusions and response expectations for your project are defined in your agreement. A retainer does not guarantee uninterrupted operation or cover every possible future change.
What is available at each stage.
- Development
- Maintenance
- Support
- Updates
- Managed integrations
The account is current and all contracted services are running.
- Development
- Maintenance
- Support
- Updates
- Managed integrations
An invoice has been issued and is not yet overdue. Nothing changes.
- Maintenance
- Support
- Managed integrations
Payment is outstanding beyond the due date. Certain services may be paused if the account remains delinquent, subject to any notice or grace period in the agreement.
- Access to your own accounts and data as defined in your agreement
Managed services and support covered by the retainer are suspended pending payment resolution. This is a service state, not a legal determination — the agreement controls.
- Transition activities defined in your agreement
Notice of termination has been issued under the terms of the agreement.
- Handover as defined in your agreement
Services have ended. Treatment of code, data, hosting, accounts and licences follows the applicable agreement.
Suspension is a service state, not a legal determination, and is applied only where the agreement authorises it. Late payment does not by itself trigger automatic termination.
Nothing happens without notice.
Due dates, grace periods, suspension points and termination timing are set in your agreement rather than fixed here.
Services may be restored once:
- outstanding balances are resolved
- required third-party services are active
- required credentials and access are available
- any reactivation requirements in the agreement are satisfied
What a retainer is — and is not.
A monthly maintenance retainer is payment for ongoing services. It does not, by itself, transfer ownership of your business, your customer data, your trademarks, or customer-specific intellectual property that your agreement assigns to you.
- Ownership and licences
- Source-code rights
- Third-party software terms
- ShahInvents pre-existing IP
- Customer-specific IP
- Hosting, accounts and credentials
- Data handling and exports
- Termination and transition rights
Customer data is not the same thing as ShahInvents intellectual property. How data, backups, exports, retention and deletion are handled is governed by your agreement and the applicable privacy documentation.
Some applications need somewhere to run.
Depending on what the product does, it may need databases, servers, cloud storage, APIs, authentication, background services, monitoring, email/SMS infrastructure or AI services.
Where we provide managed hosting or infrastructure, the applicable recurring fees are identified in your agreement.
Where you host independently, you are responsible for maintaining your own infrastructure, accounts and provider relationships.
Nonpayment, suspension and termination.
If your agreement requires an ongoing retainer and payments become delinquent, ShahInvents may suspend the services covered by that retainer after any applicable notice or grace period. That can include maintenance, support, updates, managed integrations, monitoring and continued development. Specific suspension and termination rights are governed by your agreement.
No. A maintenance retainer is payment for ongoing services. Ownership, licences, source-code rights, pre-existing ShahInvents IP, customer-specific IP, hosting, accounts, credentials and data are defined separately in your agreement.
Not unless your agreement says so. Apple, Google, RevenueCat, cloud hosting, AI APIs, payment processors and similar providers bill under their own terms, with their own limits and outages. Those costs are separate from ShahInvents development and maintenance fees.
Because the ground moves. Store billing rules change, SDKs deprecate, OS releases break assumptions, and subscription state has genuine edge cases — restores, refunds, billing retries, upgrades mid-period. An app with live monetization is a running system, not a delivered file.
Typically yes. Restoration generally requires outstanding balances to be resolved, required third-party services to be active, and necessary credentials or access to be available. Any reactivation requirement or fee is the one specified in your agreement.
That is a contractual decision made before launch. The account may be customer-owned, or ShahInvents-managed where expressly agreed. Your agreement should define who owns it, who has administrative access, who pays platform fees, who submits releases, and what happens at termination.
No surprises.
Before you commit to a project you should understand the development fee, the payment schedule, any ongoing retainer, third-party costs, hosting, maintenance, support, monetization infrastructure and the termination provisions. Ask about any of it before you start — that is the point of this page.
Website descriptions are informational and do not replace the applicable development, maintenance, hosting, licensing or services agreement. Specific payment, suspension, termination, ownership, support and service obligations are governed by the applicable agreement.