Earlier this year Google announced which would accept alternative payment systems on Google Play to allow developers to offer their own billing system. Today announces that Spotify is the first partner to test the new billing of your choice. Spotify e Google have announced that user-choice billing will come on the app of the popular music streaming service in select markets around the world starting this week.
Spotify debuts with Google Play's new user-choice billing: now we can choose how to pay. Really comfortable, isn't it?
Both companies announced that it is a initial test billing of your choice for your users in certain countries. The User Choice Billing pilot program is available in more than 35 countries, where developers can register to offer their users a choice alternative payment to Google Play. Google initially announced alternative payment systems in Australia, India, Indonesia, Japan and the European Economic Area (including Italy), but today also announced that they will also be available in United States, Brazil and South Africa.
Some of these countries in the next few days will have user-enabled billing on Spotify, but in the coming weeks they will reach more countries on the list. It is therefore it is a test staggered which will gradually reach the countries they will accept Google Play as an alternative form of payment.
Hitherto Spotify for Android it used its own billing system, bypassing that of Google Play. In the coming weeks, new subscribers will see how the app allows them to choose whether to pay Spotify directly, by manually entering your credit card or PayPal account, or decide to pay directly through Google Play.
With both billing systems, Google will retain the related service fee. It will only reduce the commission on transactions made with alternative billing by 3%. The service fee that Spotify and Google agreed on is unknown, but for a regular developer who has a 15% service fee for each transaction on Google Play, they would only pay a 12% fee if users paid with the payment system. of the developer.
