Why don't you want to use the Play billing system?
On Tuesday, February 19, 2013 6:42:13 AM UTC-6, Andy Johnson wrote: > > I am in the early stages of scoping an app that will be used within a > specialised vertical market. It is not consumer orientated, but it would be > convenient to use the Play app store to distribute it. The publisher of the > app offers other web-based services and has an existing billing > infrastructure. > > The app would have some core functionality, and optional modules that > could be enabled for individual users. Use of these modules would be > billable. I am looking for clarification on how charging for these modules > intersects with Google's policies for the Play store. The policies [1] > state that "*Developers offering additional content, services or > functionality within an application downloaded from Google Play must use > Google Play's payment system as the method of payment*". This seems clear > enough, but it lacks detail and I've been unable to find anything that > expands on it. > > I have two questions: > > 1. If the *app itself* provides the facility to enable optional features, > then I can see how that would require billing through the play payment > system. But if the optional features are enabled *outside *of the app > (for example, via a customer's profile page on a web site), does this > require billing through Google? > > 2. The app allows the user to create items of content, and creating an > item would be billable, An analogy would be a bug tracking system that > charges for creation of a bug report. Does this require billing through the > play payment system? > > Can anyone point me to definitive statements from Google that address > these scenarios? > > Thanks, Andy > > [1] https://play.google.com/about/developer-content-policy.html > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Discuss" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-discuss?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
