South Africa iOS entry card: scope the carrier checklist to observed accounts

The South Africa card asks a practical question: which named carrier paths can the team actually test? Apple’s list provides candidates, not a completed certification. Separate those candidates from the account configurations available to testers and the transaction evidence eventually collected.

What the official record establishes

Apple’s service-availability record includes the App Store in its South Africa section. Its payment-method record lists MTN, TelKom and Vodacom mobile billing. These examples are not an exhaustive list: the live source’s eligibility notes still apply, and the page says methods can change. Storefront availability does not establish that your particular game is approved, distributed or purchasable there.

The first test to run

Give each tested account path its own row and preserve the product identifier and entitlement outcome. If the team has no eligible account for a route, leave the result as untested. A release reviewer can then see the coverage boundary without mistaking an empty cell for a successful check.

Localise the observed journey

Choose language variants from the product brief and arrange qualified reviewers for them. Do not label a single language pass as complete national localisation. Keep comprehension, price display and support recovery observations attached to the actual variant and device used in the walkthrough.

Keep the decision tied to evidence

Use the editable launch checklist and CSV evidence matrix to keep documented availability separate from actual tests. Both include explicit untested states. The country card supplies no CPI, ROAS, payer-share estimate or legal clearance. Local expert review, game-specific distribution checks and real account observations remain outstanding.

Before a paid test, define the campaign identifiers, install cohort, offer event and purchase outcome you intend to reconcile. Inspect a permitted test transaction end to end, then preserve the raw event references. A successful walkthrough establishes implementation evidence for that case; it cannot establish campaign incrementality or expected acquisition economics.

Background in the existing archive: A cohort quality checklist before you scale UA spend and Text-free playable design for global campaigns. These are contextual links, not a certification of every archived claim.

Research checked 19 September 2026. Local-market verification remains required. No observed campaign or purchase results are claimed.