Google Play gets alternative payment systems

Google Play gets alternative payment systems

Google announces that users of the Android download store Google Play Store will soon be able to pay via alternative payment systems for apps that are not games.

The company provides developers with the right tools to do this, so that it complies with the Digital Markets Acts (DMA) in the European Union. The tech giant reported this in a recent published blog.

The DMA is legislation that must limit the power of large tech parties restrict. Although the new law will only take effect in the spring of 2023, we are already seeing companies taking measures.

Alternative payment system Google Play

Android developers who offer alternative payment options will still have to pay a service fee to Google. At least for the first million dollars in sales per year.

The fee will be reduced by three percent, so you pay another twelve percent as a developer per transaction. If you make more than a million dollars, the fee goes up to 27 percent (but that’s also three percent lower than before).

On a support page, Google tries to to justify. According to the search giant, it is not about a fee per payment, but about the value that Android and Google Play offer.

Of course, apps still have to meet all kinds of requirements, otherwise there is a chance that they will disappear from the Google Play Store.

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