And what about adding a Paypal Donate button in the app ? I have implemented this in a soon to be published app as I don't want to charge people for it but would welcome any generous donation if users are happy with it.
Would this violate 1.2 clause ? On 18 août, 07:33, Al Sutton <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 athttp://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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
