[android-developers] Re: In-app billing: Creating coupons ?

Thanks for the suggestions there Kostya, we're going with a issue
refund after purchase approach in lieu of anything in the platform.

-Android Media developer

On Nov 7, 3:51 pm, Kostya Vasilyev <kmans...@gmail.com> wrote:
> In-app billing does not allow free (of charge) items. You can refund a
> purchase once it's been completely processed (i.e. the money actually
> changed hands) and keep activation (it's up to the application code to
> treat refunded items as active: Dungeons does this).
>
> There is no expiration date either, although you could try unpublishing
> the item in the Dev Console - don't know if this affects existing
> transactions; it might. This assumes that the app does a restore
> transactions once in a while (which is subject to throttling on Google's
> side).
>
> Some similar requests for enhancements have been filed:
>
> http://code.google.com/p/marketbilling/issues/detail?id=12
>
> http://code.google.com/p/marketbilling/issues/detail?id=3
>
> ... but not specifically for coupon type functionality. You are welcome
> to do so (but I wonder if it makes any difference).
>
> At this time, I'd go with some other solution, perhaps an activator type
> application that could be installed alongside the main one, and would
> talk to your own server.
>
> -- Kostya
>
> 08.11.2011 0:38,androidmediadeveloperпишет:
>
> > We want the ability to setup a beta program for our pro app, which
> > uses in-app billing. I am exploring the possibility of giving our beta
> > testers access to the pro features on the app for free for a limited
> > amount of time, i.e., until we ship it in public. Was wondering if
> > there is a way to generate and issue something like a coupon which can
> > be redeemed by the beta tester to access the pro features. And, for us
> > as developers to have a way to put an "expiry" on the access acquired
> > via the coupon.
>
> > Thanks!
>
> --
> Kostya Vasilyev

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