I am no lawyer, but AFAIK you CANNOT take any 3rd party payments in an app marketed through the Google Android Market. This is not against PayPal per se and it's fair otherwise what would stop you from offering a "free" app and then charge the user outside of the Market, thus not giving Google their 30% cut? Of course, as opposed to Apple, you have the option to sell your app on your own or on alternate markets and do whatever you want.
If you have a subscription tied into your app, and you are not giving Google their cut, you could certainly wake up one morning and find your app pulled -- and rightly so. On Feb 25, 2:53 pm, HeyYouThere <[email protected]> wrote: > Well, > > I am a developer and I understand that you guys have this thing lately > where you will randomly pull apps...Even ones that have been there > since Genesis 1:1. > > Anywho, I have a subscription tied into my app, and I am wondering, IF > I WILL WAKE UP AND FIND MY SUPENDED PULLED BECAUSE I USE THE PAYPAL > ANDROID API FOR SUBSCRIPTION PAYMENTS? > > Quote: > ======================================== > 3.3 You may also choose to distribute Products for free. If the > Product is free, you will not be charged a Transaction Fee. You may > not collect future charges from users for copies of the Products that > those users were initially allowed to download for free. This is not > intended to prevent distribution of free trial versions of the Product > with an "upsell" option to obtain the full version of the Product: > Such free trials for Products are encouraged. However, if you want to > collect fees after the free trial expires, you must collect all fees > for the full version of the Product through the Payment Processor on > the Market. In this Agreement, "free" means there are no charges or > fees of any kind for use of the Product. All fees received by > Developers for Products distributed via the Market must be processed > by the Market's Payment Processor. > =========================================== > > Now while this IS clearly written, an app called Visual Voicemail was > pulled after two years of being on the market...500k + downloads, 10k+ > ratings, and a high ranking, and all that -- they sold additional > addons thru their site I believe. > > So I am confused, and since Google support seems to only respond every > lunar eclipse, I have to post this question here. Anyone with any > info, please do share. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
