Google announced the launch of an additional billing system that serves as an alternative to its official application store, Google Play, which began its tests with Spotify and will allow this application to bill users directly.
Currently, the terms of service require applications to use the integrated payment method of the Google Pay store, for which the company takes a commission from each purchase made in these apps.
As the company pointed out on its blog for developers, its official application store was created “with the highest standards of privacy and security so that users can be sure that their confidential payment data will not be at risk when they make purchases in the application.”
Therefore, it opened the door to alternative billing systems that “comply with equally high security standards” to protect user information and facilitate purchasing processes. It has done so following the steps it took last September in South Korea, which became the first country to require Google Play and Apple’s App Store to allow developers to include external payment systems.
Google also indicated in this statement that, after launching this additional billing system in the Asian country, it is exploring billing at the option of users in “other selected countries.”
Source: dpa
