Play Store In-App Billing custom price programmatically?

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My application is used to buy journey tickets. The ticket price is different everytime. Can I use In-App Billing to make the user pay a custom price everytime? If so how? i.e. can I set the price which the user has to pay programmatically?

score 4 · Answer 1 · answered Apr 29 '13 at 05:10

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You cannot programmaticaly change the price of a product using Google Play In-App Billing .You could fix the price in the Android developer Console .If you still want to custom price at the runtime you could use PAYPAL for that :

https://www.x.com/developers/paypal/products/mobile-overview

answered Apr 29 '13 at 05:10

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And your app will be rejected by using PayPal – Duna Jan 11 '21 at 12:33

score 3 · Accepted Answer · edited Feb 11 '15 at 11:14

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You cannot use Google Play In-App Billing to make the user pay a custom price.

Moreover you cannot use Google Play In-App Billing to sell physical goods and services like journey tickets:

You can use In-app Billing to sell only digital content. You cannot use In-app Billing to sell physical goods, personal services, or anything that requires physical delivery. Unlike with priced applications, once the user has purchased an in-app product there is no refund window.

http://developer.android.com/google/play/billing/billing_overview.html

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answered Apr 29 '13 at 04:57

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Also, I believe that Google allows you to sell such physical goods without going through their own billing service, which would seem to save you their 30 percent cut for in-app billing. Don't take my word for this, but that's my understanding. – Carl Apr 29 '13 at 08:02

score 2 · Answer 3 · answered Jul 06 '13 at 07:32

Your use case perfectly fits the Google Wallet Instant Buy API for Android. Google Wallet Instant Buy API for Android is specifically for physical goods and services and has a simple integration into your Android App. It was launched during Google I/O 2013 and you can get an overview at the following blog post:

http://googlecommerce.blogspot.com/2013/05/fast-and-easy-checkout-for-android-apps.html

Also, please checkout the Google I/O Talk on the same topic

https://developers.google.com/events/io/sessions/330844794

Since this is still in beta, if you're interested please sign up using the interest form

http://getinstantbuy.withgoogle.com/

Please keep in mind that Google Instant Buy only supports USD as a currency. — user3019799, May 19 '15 at 21:12

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