Google Play & in app purchases query (need to avoid Google payment implementation too!)

[dale]

Anyone here have experience of In-app purchases on Play?

Google says:

"In-app purchases: Developers offering additional content, services or functionality within an application downloaded from Google Play must use Google Play's payment system as the method of payment, except:
where payment is primarily for physical goods or services (e.g. buying movie tickets; e.g. buying a publication where the price also includes a hard copy subscription); ***or
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)"

My application is free, but lists places around the world, i.e. cafes - business owners can enhance their listing for a fee and this enhanced listing will appear in the app and elsewhere on websites. Is this covered in the section beginning above ***?

I really want to avoid going through Google play as a payment system as I wouldn't be able to integrate it in Appery ... it doesn't look easy at all!

Thanks in advance.

Dale.

[Kateryna Grynko]

Hi Dale,

There is a Cordova plug-in for InAppBilling: https://github.com/phonegap/phonegap-...
To use it with Appery.io you would need to export app to Eclipse and add plug-in via IDE.

[dale]

Thanks Katya,
Too complicated for me I'm afraid - not an expert.
I just wondered if my scenario above requires me to use Googles billing ... I'd much rather work with PayPal - I can managed that!
Ta.
Dale.

[Mehmet Edebali Şener]

Hi,

It is also possible for ios in-app purchase, isn't it? I only need to use Cordova plug-in for in-app purchase. In-app functionality is important for our project. If there isn't any problem with in-app we are decided to use appery.

Thanks for reply.

[Maryna Brodina]

Hello! You can try NewsStand, In-app-purchases and StoreKit functionality. It seems the only option might be to have these features as PhoneGap plug-ins.

[jeeper_creepers]

hi, is it considered an in app purchase giving the user the ability to buy stuff being redirected on an iframe containing a paypal button?
if it is, is it good both for google play store and apple store?

[Illya Stepanov]

Hello -

Could you clarify what you're trying to do?

If there will be a redirection to an iframe you can make any billing system that provide html blanks for their services and implement it in Appery.io project.

But this wouldn't be the InApp Purchase as it stated by Google and Apple, there for you would need to add a specific plugin.

[jeeper_creepers]

Thank you mr Stepanov

I'm creating an app that gives the user the capability to purchase some stuff. The process would be:

Open the app, select the item, fill in a form, then i open an iframe or a inner app brower that receive the form data and contains a paypal button. On complete payment or canceling, the user is suggested to close the inner browser/iframe and this is the return in app for me.

So: it seems this is not an in app purchase, isn't?

The second question is: can i export this app to make it available both on Google Play Store and Apple Store? Does it conflicts with any guidelines?

Thank you in advance!

[Evgene Karachevtsev]

Hello,

Please look at this link:
http://developer.android.com/google/p...
If you sell the material goods, you won't be qualified for in-app-purchases.
And you can export from Appery.io your app for Android and IOS: http://devcenter.appery.io/documentat...

[jeeper_creepers]

does appery support paypal cordova/phonegap plugin, mentioned here https://devblog.paypal.com/paypal-cor... ?