Hello, so I've created a theme for GO Launcher and would like to sell it on the android market. So I bought the developer program for $25, and then when I uploaded my apk on the developers page, I scrolled down and saw "Pricing:
Free, Want to sell applications? Setup a Merchant Account at Google Checkout"
I click on the link and guess what, my country is not listed on Merchant Account options for Google Checkout. So I just spent $25 and about a week on creating the theme, and I realize that I can't upload it.
Is there any other way to upload a paid application to the market? Other than using a google checkout account? Maybe paypal or whatever?
Thanks in advance!
You can try to contact Google Support and see if your money can be refunded.
I was most interested in paying the price but also being able to sell my own apps, but it seems that's not the case, I don't see why my country is not supported, or a lot of the countries actually.
I don't know Google policies about countries in or out the google merchant group.
Unfortunately I think you should wait for your country to be accepted. You can ask Google about timings, maybe they would answer you about that.
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I’ve one question. How do application developers from the countries who are not in this merchant list (like India) publish there paid apps in the market. I mean there must be some way.
Do they have to open a bank account in other country like US and open a merchant account from that.
Is it allowed & legal?
Hi
I'm developing an application and wondering about putting it on the Google Play store, more out of interest to see if I can make a little bit of cash, I'm not expecting riches, but some cash flow would help serve to encourage me to do more Android development.
On going through the registration I need to set up a Google Merchant account, no problems with that, however I need to provide a public business address and website address, and like I suspect is the case with the vast majority of app developers with it being more a hobby from a back bedroom, I don't have a business address or business website, so it will default to my home address. The terms also suggest that if I don't supply a URL my account might be suspended.
I'm also a little nervous about about my home address in case it is made public, and wondering if it is worth going to trouble of getting a domain name for the URL.
What have other people done? I notice some paid apps have a broken website URL, and I can't recall making a purchase on the Play store where I have seen the developers or business address displayed to me.
Any info gratefully received.
Regards
Phil
PhilipL said:
Hi
I'm developing an application and wondering about putting it on the Google Play store, more out of interest to see if I can make a little bit of cash, I'm not expecting riches, but some cash flow would help serve to encourage me to do more Android development.
On going through the registration I need to set up a Google Merchant account, no problems with that, however I need to provide a public business address and website address, and like I suspect is the case with the vast majority of app developers with it being more a hobby from a back bedroom, I don't have a business address or business website, so it will default to my home address. The terms also suggest that if I don't supply a URL my account might be suspended.
I'm also a little nervous about about my home address in case it is made public, and wondering if it is worth going to trouble of getting a domain name for the URL.
What have other people done? I notice some paid apps have a broken website URL, and I can't recall making a purchase on the Play store where I have seen the developers or business address displayed to me.
Any info gratefully received.
Regards
Phil
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A hosted website with a custom domain costs nothing nowdays. You'll need it anyway for marketing, etc.
PhilipL said:
Hi
I'm developing an application and wondering about putting it on the Google Play store, more out of interest to see if I can make a little bit of cash, I'm not expecting riches, but some cash flow would help serve to encourage me to do more Android development.
On going through the registration I need to set up a Google Merchant account, no problems with that, however I need to provide a public business address and website address, and like I suspect is the case with the vast majority of app developers with it being more a hobby from a back bedroom, I don't have a business address or business website, so it will default to my home address. The terms also suggest that if I don't supply a URL my account might be suspended.
I'm also a little nervous about about my home address in case it is made public, and wondering if it is worth going to trouble of getting a domain name for the URL.
What have other people done? I notice some paid apps have a broken website URL, and I can't recall making a purchase on the Play store where I have seen the developers or business address displayed to me.
Any info gratefully received.
Regards
Phil
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Bump. I'm in a similar situation. Wondering what you did about the address? I don't want to give people my home address just because they buy my app.
For the domain I just created a weebly website for free. Super easy and it doesn't have to be high quality. How many people actuality visit your website?
I have my home address. When I start my company that's where I will be based from anyway.
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I am in the same situation, a private person releasing an paid app. The deal with the public adress just got to me.
I read somewhere about a guy who entered fake information as the "public" adress, this isn't appealing to me though.
If i buy an apple at the local supermarket it's not like the name and homeadress of the apple grocist is on the store recipe.
Is there any way around this since I'm not really that keen on showing my home adress public..
Or is it "just" the other way around? That I can see the users information but the user cannot actually see the developers information..?
Just give them something.
Just give them any address. It's no big deal. give them the address of a highway rest area. As for the website, you'll make more money than it costs you per year to own a domain just by having a domain. Just use a blogger website etc.. and then hook it up with a domain. Just having the website to support your game/app whatever is very important. :fingers-crossed:
Hi,
I have some (big) trouble with the google play store and the country setting. I'm an expat software engineer and are changing my location frequently. The play store only allows me to change my country once a year and to change the country I need a payment method in this country. It's not always easy to create a bank account in any country and I don't want to create always a bank account. Besides in many countries you only get a credit card if you are having a monthly income in that country. And even then there is still one year barrier to change your country.
Usually it's not a big deal as most apps are available every where. But some serves apps for government, cell carrier, public transportation and others are region locked. It is very annoying and troublesome not to have access to them.
Is there any best practice to change the country? Is the only way to have multiple google accounts or is there a more convenient way?
Thanks up front for your help.
Hi there
I hope this is the right category for this question : we are trying to publish an app on android play store with in-app purchases, but we have been blocked for days by a currency problem.
The google account is based in Ukraine and we entered a payment method in the form of a Ukrainian currency (Hryvnia) account. As a result, the prices of IAP items had to be entered in Hryvnia. When the player wants to make an in-app purchase, Google does send us a price in the player's local currency (e.g. euro in France) which we display in the game. But then, when the google payment window is displayed, the price is in Hryvnia and not in the local currency, which is not convenient for us.
Is this normal? What should we do to make sure that Google displays the price in the local currency?
We searched the web but we havent found any usefull information. We asked our question to google support but we havent received any feedback (!). We tried to change the payment method by using a dollar account, which is allowed by the Ukrainian bank via an intermediary bank in Germany. But we still can't enter prices for IAP items other than in Hryvnia. Is this normal? Do we need to recreate an account and move the application if we want to change the payment method??
Thank you in advance for your answers
Vorlin