I want to setup Google merchant account in android market for selling my apps. I am Indian and in the country dropdown India is not available. How can I create my merchant account, and can I use another account like paypal for selling apps?
Thanks.
If your country is not on the list of countries eligible for creating merchant account, you cannot publish paid apps, unfortunately. You will need to find different ways to monetize your application, which might be one of the following:
As mentioned above, get a PayPal account and ask users for donations
Sign up to ad-serving site (AdMob seem to be popular choice) and place a banner in your application.
Implement in-app purchases in your own manner, independent from the Android Market in-app purchases.
#jubin though its more than a year when you asked this question, but now india is in the list of countries where android developers can create merchant account m happy for it..:-). check it here
EDIT: It was the mistake of Google, they put India in list for small time and later they removed again, now India is not in the list..:(
Edit: This time i am happy to edit my answer...:) Good news --> Indian android developers can set up merchant account on google play developer account..:)
check this here
The way I understood i.
If it is not in the list you cannot join. I happen to be in the same situation. You can sell your apps with Paypal but not on Google's official site. On your own site or on third party sites that accept you.
There is a nice table on Wikipedia where you can see in which countries selling of apps is possible.
As mentioned before, to "sell" Apps, you could accept PayPal-donations, display Ads oder sell the App on Google-independent Markets.
From India you can not open merchant account yet. And according to the Google TOS, it is in short against rules to earn money on Android Market in a way that that money does not pass through Google (so they get a cut). But it looks like that they tolerate that.
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This question has already been asked a lot of times but no complete/detailed answer has been provided so far.
I'm not sure if this is the right place for this question. I need to configure the Google Developer Console (and Google Wallet as well) in order to sell apps in Play Store. As you probably know Google has a list and not all countries are easily allowed to sell applications. However, there is one workaround using Payoneer and Google Wallet in order to get money from the apps sold. Basically you need to obtain an account in Payoneer and apply for "US Payment Services", doing this you will get a banck account in the US, after that you will need to create a Google Wallet Merchant Account and here is the problem:If your country is not listed in Google as an allowed location you will need to change the configuration in Google Wallet to an US address (you can get one in usbox.com for instance) and after that you will be able to create the Merchant account. The problem is that sells in Play Stores fail even if these steps were completed. I think that the problem is that I cannot verify my identity because I don't have an SSN or ITIN number.
Does anyone have more experience about this or know the required steps and configuration for Non-US Residents?
There is no general answer because if you are not a US resident, it still depends on your country. Depending on your country, you may get paid through wire transfer:
https://support.google.com/googleplay/android-developer/answer/2700656?hl=en
This applies to many but not all non US residents.
The general process is described here:
https://support.google.com/googleplay/android-developer/answer/173779?hl=en
I am looking for all possible ways to sell physical products or services via android App on Google Play. I was following the tutorial for Wallet Intant Buy that allows it in https://developers.google.com/wallet/instant-buy/android/tutorial?hl=es, but after filling the Intant Buy Register Form I have received a mail saying merchants must: "Sell items in the United States (Instant Buy cannot be used to make sales outside of the US at this time)"
My company is established in Europe and is where we plan to sell products, which alternatives do we have? As I have readed PayPal SDK option is not allowed to Google Play Apps.
Another option we consider is embbed the shopping cart via WebView component, is that possible in a Google Play App? We obviously prefer native alternatives.
Thanks in advance, any help is appreciated.
Is the Google Wallet online payment system on Android phones mandatory for e.g. movie, songs or game levels purchases in a similar way the Apple’s In-App-Purchase is on iOS?
According to the information here “Developers offering additional content, goods, or services for an application downloaded from Android Market must offer an authorized Payment Processor as the payment option“.
Our understanding is that if user has installed an application, which plays movies and users pay per single movie view application needs using the Google Wallet otherwise it can be removed from Google Play. Is that correct?
Similar situation is within game if user wants to pay for the additional level. Is that correct?
For subscriptions it is not required to use the Google Wallet (again the similar situation is on the iOS).
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I had an app that had LogiaMobile billing integrated and was rejected from Google Play for that very reason (it was in Sept 2011). The app tried to bill users when they wanted to download videos.
Find a good explanation about the policies in this Techcrunch article
My advice would be to always integrate Google In-App billing (now v3 is far more confortable to work with).
I hope this is what you were asking for :)
'Google Wallet' is a confusing name, because it may refer to different thing. First there is the Google Wallet app that lets you pay with your phone via NFC. You certainly don't need this to buy things from the Play Store and it is supported only in the US, and only on a limited number of devices. Google Wallet also refers to Google's online payment system (aka Google Checkout). You need to register your credit card with that in order to make purchases on Android. It serves as the 'authorized Payment Processor' in most case. Other ones being carrier billing on supported carriers.
I'm currently trying to integrate a service that will enable my users to purchase In-App virtual products.
However I've tried to integrate Google's In-App Billing service into my app, however it requieres a Google Checkout Merchant account, which is not supported in South Africa for some reason. So I can scrap that idea unless I have a bank account in one of the supported countries?
I'm just having a look PayPal. Is this a good option?
So my questions:
Is there anyway I could still somehow get Google In-App billing to work?
Is PayPal a good option? (I'm guessing it would limit potential customers)
Are there any other good options for IAP?
Read the developer agreement and consult a lawyer if necessary, but simply put all billing for virtual items needs to go through Google Checkout/Wallet. PayPal would be against those terms if you distribute through Google Play.
The only reliable way is open a developer and bank account in a country that supports paid apps.
I am building a shopping cart application for android. My customers already have google checkout merchants accounts and they want to sell their goods and receive payments in their google checkout merchants accounts.
I have an activity that displays user-selected goods and payment. I need to know what is the info I'll send to google and service links that can make the app users pay for selected goods in merchants account?
Not clear enough, but this might help you:
http://code.google.com/apis/checkout/developer/Google_Checkout_Custom_Processing_How_To.html
http://developer.android.com/guide/market/billing/billing_overview.html
Good luck :)
I assume you want to implement an Android native app and not a web app. You may want to start with the Android In-App Billing documentation:
http://developer.android.com/guide/market/billing/index.html
Also please make to read the Android Market Developer Distribution Agreement:
http://www.android.com/us/developer-distribution-agreement.html