TimeBack Store
Publish your approved app to TimeBack Store and earn revenue when parents purchase access for their kids. The Store is the monetization layer on top of the platform's app catalog — once your App is approved on the Platform, you can list it in the Store, set a price, and let parents buy directly from store.timeback.com.
What the Store Provides
TimeBack Store handles every commerce concern your app would otherwise have to build itself:
- A consumer-facing storefront at
store.timeback.comwhere parents browse the catalog, view your listing, and complete checkout. - Payment processing (Stripe under the hood) — you never touch card data or PCI scope.
- A discount-code engine so you can run promos without rolling your own redemption logic.
- An affiliate program so partners can earn a share of sales they drive to your listing.
- Entitlement writeback to the Platform — a successful purchase records
user_profileaccess against the buyer's child so your app can verify the student has paid for it at launch.
The Store is store-led: parents pay on store.timeback.com, the Store records the purchase, then the Platform records the entitlement. Your app never embeds raw Stripe primitives, and you never have to reconcile two ledgers.
Prerequisites
Before publishing to the Store you need an approved app on the Platform. The path is:
- Register your app as a draft. See Level 0: Register Your App — sign in with Google, call one tool or REST endpoint, walk away with credentials.
- Integrate against sandbox until your app is stable. See Sandbox Environment.
- Get promoted to
activetier. See App Lifecycle for the draft → active promotion gate.
Only active-tier apps can publish to the Store. The Store reads the canonical app metadata (name, description, logo, cover image, application type) from the Platform; you don't re-enter it on the Store side.
How the Store Surfaces in This Guide
| Page | What it covers |
|---|---|
| MCP Setup | Connect Cursor / VS Code / Claude Code / ChatGPT to the Store's MCP server. |
| Integration | The Store MCP tools you'll use to publish and manage your listing, plus how to verify student access at app login. |
Related Docs
Level 0: Register Your App
Get your app into the Platform catalog with draft-tier credentials — the prerequisite for publishing to the Store.
App Lifecycle
How draft and active tiers work, and how to promote your App so it qualifies for Store publication.
Store → MCP Setup
Wire your AI client to the Store's MCP server so you can manage your listing conversationally.
Store → Integration
The Store MCP tool surface, plus the runtime pattern your app uses to verify a student has an active profile at launch.
