Chrome Web Store payments deprecation
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Chrome Web Store payments deprecation
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Re: Chrome Web Store payments deprecation
#2This sucks. I paid $25 for my play console account to monetize my extension two days ago - just to find out they deprecate web store payments entirely.
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#3"There is no way to bulk export your existing user licenses, so you need to have your users help with this part of the migration."
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#4Am I understanding it correctly that products paid for will stop working at the undecided "some future time"? And at that point there will be no official way to keep those extensions/apps working even if both the dev and the user wants to?
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#5This is super annoying. I have two extensions, one which we've offered on Chrome and Firefox for years, and which uses Stripe for payments. The other we only offered on Chrome and was paid through the Chrome Store. Thinking of all the work we'll have to do to manage accounts/payments/etc on the PDF extension almost makes me want to scrap the whole thing.
Most frustrating is the migration. We have been live in the Chrome Store for 7 years, with varying prices. When someone subscribes, they are grandfathered at that price forever. But when we create our own payment system, how do we know what price someone was previously paying? We can either make our new customers really happy by charging all grandfathered users the lowest price we ever charged, or we can upset a bunch of our older customers by charging everyone the current price (which is 5x the former).
One fair way to accommodate everyone is charge the high price but if someone forwards us their receipt from the Chrome Store showing a different price, we apply a perpetual coupon to their account. But that will be super labor-intensive (and is susceptible to manipulation/abuse).
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#6I feel like we are getting nearly weekly examples of "the platform store will eventually kill your business". These platform stores wouldn't be anywhere without independent developers building the software to sell in then, and these big companies just shit on them.
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#7Who says Google is destroying competition, they encourage competition by closing down their own stuff people love and use.
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#8Just my luck...
I created my extension and started monetizing it March of this year...
Re: Chrome Web Store payments deprecation
#9This sucks. I paid $25 for my play console account to monetize my extension two days ago - just to find out they deprecate web store payments entirely.
I think they should do prorated refunds.
Re: Chrome Web Store payments deprecation
#10This is super annoying. I have two extensions, one which we've offered on Chrome and Firefox for years, and which uses Stripe for payments. The other we only offered on Chrome and was paid through the Chrome Store. Thinking of all the work we'll have to do to manage accounts/payments/etc on the PDF extension almost makes me want to scrap the whole thing. Most frustrating is the migration. We have been live in the Chr…
and annoying. you're charging your most loyal users the cost of providing proof after all these years.