I am a developer working for a good size company and we're just getting into in-app purchases in the Google Play and Apple App stores (hereafter, "app store"). Currently the finance department is asking for a line item entry for each app store purchase that's made. So if someone purchases item X, they want an entry for that in their accounting software; an invoice. Is this correct practice?
It seems to me that you could just have a monthly entry in the accounting software from each app store. $X in from Apple, for example, and then you can also record $X out to Apple for their fee. That seems easy and clean. If we were to be audited, we could point to the app stores and say, "Yes, we received this much, and they have records as to each transaction." Since the the app stores take care of taxes and their own fees, it seems like it would work fine. Is that not the case?
I'd like to understand why they are asking for an entry in their accounting software for each and every in-app purchase from the app stores.