Is it possible to get product price in local currency from the app itself. For example if I am selling Product1 with price of 1$ through Google Play In App billing. A customer from UK clicks on a button to purchase the product and the price at Google Play is shown in GBP. Can I get localized price in the app from Google Play so I can display it to the customer in its own currency?
The in-app billing v3 claims to be able to accomplish this:
The API also introduces a long-anticipated feature: the ability to query in-app product information directly from Google Play. Developers can now programmatically obtain an item's title, description and price. No currency conversion or formatting is necessary: prices are reported in the user's currency and formatted according to their locale
Source: http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2012/12/in-app-billing-version-3.html
Since you are asking this i suggest to just leave as it is.
This is more about economy rather than programming, and the problem is that the ratio between 2 currencies keeps changing every time and there is no way to calculate this because of the market and the actual evaluation is only given by the stock markets for a particular point in time.
There are 2 ways of thinking about this:
The merchant makes an evaluation about what is the average ratio between 2 currencies, he quantifies this value in real money and adds it to the final price, so he can avoid money loss or at least a good part of it
The merchant puts in place a mechanism for prices that, given real-time infos from the stock markets ( probably you have to pay for this ), calculates prices of real goods in real time or every time that the user wants to checkout his order.
If this is new to you don't say nothing about this, there are a lots of money that are burning and magically appearing every day in every stock exchange market, if you give a bad advice to your client he can be really disappointed and lose a lot of money.
Also different currencies are usually handled directly by credit card services, there is no reason to handle this by yourself, you can only risk more than it's worth doing it.
If your users wants to know the price in their currency teach them to use Google or some reliable online currency converter.
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An app for a US client sells a subscription for $1.99/month through in-app billing. When I test the app from the Netherlands, the local price is reported to be €2.11. Two questions:
Where can I find the price tier information per country? The amount seems incorrect because right now the EUR is worth more than the USD, not less.
It is not formatting the price correctly. Is this a bug? It should display € 2,11 in NL and 2,11 € in FR but it's not doing this. It's only converting the amount and not localizing the way the currency is displayed.
Thanks!
You can check the conversion in your google play developer account for the app. Check the in app product you created and you'll be ablt to either auto convert or override the prices.
Here's how it typically looks
I've implemented in-app billing in our app. All is working well. However, we're asked if we could determine the exact tax on each purchase to be sent later to a server for real-time tracking purposes, and the sales report from Android Developer Console is only updated once a month (not entirely sure, as according to the information from the site, it's only delayed for 2 days), so that is not an option.
The problem is we're only able to retrieve the price without taxes through the in-app billing API (as also stated in the API documentation).
It seems that the tax charges are based on the country the user entered through the credit card information - and, of course, due to security issues, that cannot be retrieved as well.
Is there another way to determine from which country the user is purchasing from (i.e., the one from his/her credit card). Or better yet, is there a way to simply determine the tax on each purchase?
I'm having a problem. When I put up an in app purchase item (lets call it item_x) I set the USD price at 1.99
Now my major problem is that since I sell in several countries (those that have iap allowed) I would like their currency price to stay the same (e.g. $1.99 regardless of what currency they are using) So far I have to press auto-convert prices each day to keep it relatively stable. Is there any way to force google to auto calculate other counties prices based on current price??
No, you cannot do this.
Sometimes your USD price, when converted to the price in another country, may not match the minimum pricing required for an item in a particular country. Due to this, completely automated pricing is not possible, and you have to do at least some of it manually.
I am in the process of creating an in-app-billing service. I want to set prices differently for different countries.
When the purchase page is displayed, how can I decide which currency i should use for an In-app-billing item? Do I use the local currency? Or the Android Market Account currency? I could not find any documentation about this. I want to know the rule of judgment to display the correct currency.
See this question and the corresponding answers:
Android Market In-App-Purchase: How to get the currency a user will pay in?
In summary, it's not possible (at the time of my writing this!) to talk to Android Market and get the currency of the user's Android Market account.
Maybe an idea to have a Spinner in your shop screen which allows the user to select the currency to display prices in. Bit of a hack but best alternative I could come up with.
i just can't find it anywhere, so i'd appreciate and help on this :=)
I read about it, and it should be possible, for instance,
I want to set a Dollar price for an App# 3,99 USD,
while the price in Euros is just 2,49 (about) €
So that the values fit, and there isn't something like 3,74 USD ;=) (maybe it frightens some customers ;=P)
Would be great if anyone could tell me where to set this in the Android Developer Console?
Thanks a lot,
best regards,
Mike
Unfortunately I believe this feature is not yet available for you. It is currently only available in the US. Below excerpts are taken from my documentation:
Over the next few months, Android Market will be transitioning towards offering
applications priced in the buyer's home currency, rather than the merchant's
(developer's) home currency. This feature will be rolling out in stages,
country by country. As an Android Market merchant, you will be notified by email
when we are ready to release the feature in your locale and action is required from
you -- at that time you must visit the Developer Console and and set prices for your
apps in all available currencies.
If you have not received an email, it is not available in your market yet.
Availability:
This feature is not available in all countries and currencies at this time. Currently
only US merchants are able to set prices in EUR, CAD, CHF, DKK, GBP, NOK and SEK currencies.