Dear Tobias, Jean-Baptiste, John and Community, Thank you for all your comments. We do not want to violate the terms of the Market that is why I am asking about the subject. The link sent by Tobias regarding subscription on the market states the following:
"Currently, Android Market doesn't support subscription billing. Please note that collecting payments through your application is not allowed under the Android Market Developer Distribution Agreement. " For me this means that the Market does not have a mechanism to handle subscription billing. We have implemented our own payment system in our app that handles subscription, so the Market does not need to do it for us. The relevant quote from the Market TOS: "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." Our plan is to give the data in our app free for a limited amount of time and the ask the user to subscribe through Google Checkout (or ? PayPal?) . The quote sais that if I want to collect fees for the data, I have to do it through the Payment Processor on the Market. The Payment Processor on the Market is Google Checkout right? After analyzing the docs, it seems to me that such a model is ok if we use Checkout embedded in our app, however I have to say that law is not our strongest side (it's android development) so my conclusion may not be accurate. Please share your views with me. Thanks, Gergely On May 2, 12:22 am, "Maps.Huge.Info (Maps API Guru)" <[email protected]> wrote: > Just because someone creates an app that violates the terms and > seemingly gets away with it doesn't mean it isn't right. Just > remember, if you do get caught and get banned, you won't be able to > publish any more apps, so violate the terms at your own peril. > > -John Coryat > > -- > 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 > athttp://groups.google.com/group/android-discuss?hl=en. -- 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.
