My understanding is the idea may be against clause 1.2 and/or 3.3 of the Googles Market Developer Agreement (http://www.android.com/us/developer-distribution-agreement.html) , although it's OK on other app stores ;).
1.2 says; "If you want to charge a fee for your Products, you must also acquire and maintain a valid Payment Account from an authorized Payment Processor." 3.3 says; "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." It largely depends on the payment processor and whether they are considered authorised (currently, as far as I'm aware, PayPal isn't authorised... funny that :)). Al. -- * Written an Android App? - List it at http://andappstore.com/ * ====== Funky Android Limited is registered in England & Wales with the company number 6741909. The registered head office is Kemp House, 152-160 City Road, London, EC1V 2NX, UK. The views expressed in this email are those of the author and not necessarily those of Funky Android Limited, it's associates, or it's subsidiaries. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of droidin.net Sent: 18 August 2009 06:09 To: Android Discuss Subject: [android-discuss] Why pay Google? If I place free app on the market which includes paid features for which I use alternative means of billing my users (say direct PayPal payment) will that violate anything in the Market agreement and will my app be banished from the Market? Say (for the sake of argument) the app even before the license is purchased is useful "as is" and fully functional. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Discuss" 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-discuss?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
