I am making an application for Android and IOS and this application is having a Mobile Payment. But actually this is a donation To any firm with NonProfit reasons. I am looking for some Mobile Payment That support the both platform. I tried to read the Paypal but i don't found any donation button in there SDK.I also checked out the some question over here and i Found apple support the third party payment gateway only for the physical goods and for virtual things i must go on with IAP. But they deduct the 30% of the amount. I want any alternative that i can go with minimum usage charges and payment for Donation (I think that is also a virtual payment).
Can any one provide me some idea to go in to a direction?
Thanks,
You can start with PayPay SDK. It's supporting both iOS as well Android.
If you are doing payment for Donation, then I hope, apple will not reject your app.
Below is helpful url for it.
https://www.x.com/community/ppx/xspaces/mobile
https://www.x.com/docs/DOC-2532
Cheers and Enjoy with starting!
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My app is basically supposed to sell ebooks and need to distribute via Android Market. For payment options, I would like to use PayPal. So, straight to the point, am I allowed to use paypal as payment option for digital goods(in my case Ebooks)? I had googled for it a while. But nothing worth referencing came up to me.
I also read through Android Market terms and didn't quite get it whether they allow such option for in-app billing. All I see from their docs is referring to Google Checkout. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Well, just for information, I refer to http://www.google.com/mobile/android/market-tos.html .
Just to keep up, http://www.android.com/us/developer-content-policy.html#showlanguages this link may well more specific to my situation.
In general, you need to be careful - the TOS of the Android Market generally require you to use Google's payment processing options to charge users (see "Paid and Free Applications").
That said, they name two exceptions, one of which seems to apply in your case - "Where payment is for digital content or goods that may be consumed outside of the application itself (e.g. buying songs that can be played on other music players)". If your app sells ebooks in the form of standard files (like epub or pdf), you should be in the clear.
I believe you can sell digital content using paypal via your app - however I don't think you can use Google's In-App Purchasing system - that has to go through the Market Place, and is linked to a Google Checkout account.
So you'd need a separate delivery and authentication system.
I read the agreements on Android Developer site already but I dont clearly understand it.
From what I understand. If I want to allow user to purchase/subscribe my service through my Android application, I must offer Google Checkout as an option. I'm not in a supported country for Merchant account, so that option is not available to me. Am I allow to use third party library without offering Checkout option?
If I use Webview inside that application to open a page on my website, does that count as in-app purchase?
I searched for similar question but not really sure if the Webview violate the agreement or not?
This is a legal question. Please address it to Google directly as only they can give you an authoritative answer about android market terms of use.
I am looking to develop a mobile app that provides prepaid wireless refills or top-ups. Since there is no shipping would this be considered a virtual product. If so, considering the markup on an airtime pin is only around, 12% how could I offer purchases through the app if Google wants 30%? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Jibril
You should not use google or apply in app purchases, instead you should use a 3rd party payment processor to avoid their high fees. I would suggest stripe or braintree. Reloadly also makes it very easy to app mobile top ups to your app,you can view their API docs here https://topupsapi.docs.apiary.io/#
Reloadly can also provide the UI framework and code samples for your app
Is it possible to donate money via in-app billing?
If not, how can we implement donation from inside an Android app? Please share a few hints.
Thanks
There isn't really a mechanism for doing donations in in-app billing. Anything you sell needs to be sold as virtual goods - fixed products with fixed prices. It is possible to sell "unmanaged" items which a user could buy over and over again but it'd be really in-convenient for your users.
What you might want to look into is the PayPal in app payments library.
https://www.x.com/community/ppx/xspaces/mobile/mep?view=overview
If you're not selling virtual goods I think it'll give you more flexibility - for instance your users can input the amount they're willing to donate + you can do recurring payments with it ;). Also, it's MUCH easier to integrate with your app than the in-app payments system.
If you are using in-app billing then market will charge 30% for a transaction. While in-app billing requires items to be sold on a fixed price which will give you a little scope if your items are not managed(fixed priced). There is a way to do it from your android app without leaving it by using Paypal libraries.
Paypal integration for android becomes fairly simple if you follow their developer site. You will need to download and integrate the library provided by Paypal, which is available on Paypal developer site.
Sample Pizza application built using Eclipse demonstrate how to do actual integration which is quite simple. Although paypal seems forgot to use relative path for library. So you will have to change library path and application is ready to go.
I am currently developing an application where I want to be able to have an option to allow the user to donate money for the app. Is there a particular way about doing this for android. I have tried looking at google but it mainly shows about paypal donation buttons for websites
I think it should be possible.
There's a similar discussion on Google Groups which basically says that donations are allowed as long as you don't offer additional functionality for that money.
Meaning no functionality is enabled after the donation is made.
Like #alocaly said, you're unable to recieve donations through a system different from android market payment or ads inside the application.
However, it is still possible to have your application on the Internet by free and with a donation button. The difference is that you cannot post it on the Android Market, so you'll have to do some extra work:
Upload to a webserver, so it can be downloaded to your phone.
Create a website (or post your application to another "illegal" market), so people can find your application.
Use some sort of advertising to let people know your application (Twitter retweets, community ads, GoogleAds, SEO, whatever)
Manage some kind of update system. Since you don't rely anymore on the Android Market, you don't have an automatic updating method (Android Market updates applications when you post a new version of it), so you should have a small class that checks a website looking for a new version (it's not that hard) and downloads a new version when there's one available.
Make work the Paypal button like #Tim said
However, you are able to do something that I've see out there: create a free version of your application and post it on the Android Market, and post another version of the same application called "Same program name (Donation)", costing some money. When someone wants to donate you, they'll only have to buy this version.
I hope it helps
I don't know what importance it has, but I think that the chart / terms of services we sign as android developers don't allow the usage of this kind of monetization.
As this is a subject that is changing a lot in Android world, with the soon to come API to pay in apps, I'm not sure it still has any importance, but you should still be aware of that.
Maybe you should take a look at this post, which explains how to integrate Paypal payments into an Android App witout leaving the App itself: How to integrate paypal donate in android app?