[Q] Android Market payments - Android Software Development

I have a couple apps in the Market and I have so many small payments coming in from Google every day to the point where I'm actually thinking about setting up a separate bank account just for Android app revenue, because it clutters up my bank statement. Is there any way to change it so they only pay you like once a month, or they pay you in groups of say $100?

The payments are supposed to be only once a month... they don't send you the money everytime someone buys something from you

hyperbyteX said:
The payments are supposed to be only once a month... they don't send you the money everytime someone buys something from you
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For some reason they pay me 4-5 times a week.

Anyone know why this is?
Also, do you get paid for the total downloads or just the "active installs"?

You get paid for each download AS LONG as they dont get a refund within 15 mins (so if the google checkout outbox says "declined" it means their card didnt work, if it say "cancelled" then the got a refund) so if the uninstall it after 15 mins you still get the money, but they lose the app

hyperbyteX said:
You get paid for each download AS LONG as they dont get a refund within 15 mins (so if the google checkout outbox says "declined" it means their card didnt work, if it say "cancelled" then the got a refund) so if the uninstall it after 15 mins you still get the money, but they lose the app
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Thanks. Is there a quick way to view how many you're getting paid for and how many uninstalled it? I don't really have time to go through the entire payment list and add them up myself.

I also get payments more than once a month; about a couple of days after the sale has been "confirmed".
As far as making it easier to handle that list, there is an option to download it as a .csv file and then you can manipulate it in a spreadsheet.

You can change how often they pay you. I have mine set to once a week.
Here are your options:
Weekly: Every 7 calendar days
Biweekly: Every 14 calendar days
Monthly: Every 28 calendar days
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To change your payment preferences:
Sign in to Google Checkout.
Click the Settings tab.
Click Financials.
Make your selection from the drop-down box beside 'Specify how often you'd like to receive payments.'
Click Save financials.
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I think it takes a month or so for the new settings to take effect

Meltus said:
You can change how often they pay you. I have mine set to once a week.
Here are your options:
To change your payment preferences:
I think it takes a month or so for the new settings to take effect
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I went to the Financials page but I don't have the drop-down box you talked about. All I have are "Bank information" and "Credit verification." Even under bank information it only lets you enter your account number, it doesn't have an option for how often you want to receive payments.

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WAIT WAIT WAIT that's CANNOT be right - App store question

(Yeah please excuse the subject typo...rage and all)
So I've just come across an interesting problem. With the Froyo update I took the opportunity to change what I'll call the root profile Gmail address from my personal to work (on Google Apps). Alls well until I go to reload my apps which won't because it's under a different Gmail address. Samsung support says "Nope" it won't combine email addresses.
My question is, will Googs allow this? I've got enough invested in apps that I do NOT want to buy them over again and quite effing honestly, SHOULDN'T HAVE TO.
Something else comes to mind (speaking in future tense now)...if I had purchased them through the Amazon Marketplace this wouldn't have been an issue?
-Trollark
Trollark said:
(Yeah please excuse the subject typo...rage and all)
So I've just come across an interesting problem. With the Froyo update I took the opportunity to change what I'll call the root profile Gmail address from my personal to work (on Google Apps). Alls well until I go to reload my apps which won't because it's under a different Gmail address. Samsung support says "Nope" it won't combine email addresses.
My question is, will Googs allow this? I've got enough invested in apps that I do NOT want to buy them over again and quite effing honestly, SHOULDN'T HAVE TO.
Something else comes to mind (speaking in future tense now)...if I had purchased them through the Amazon Marketplace this wouldn't have been an issue?
-Trollark
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Your purchases are registered under one gmail profile...seems pretty straightforward to me. You couldn't buy apps with one Apple ID and download them on another. Why not sign your original gmail back in and then add the other gmail?
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From a developer stand point, I understand why not.
Then I could just register one address with all of my families android devices and they would all have the apps that where only paid for once.
go back to the other email address....
Yeah, just log out and log back into the old gmail account.
Kcarpenter said:
From a developer stand point, I understand why not.
Then I could just register one address with all of my families android devices and they would all have the apps that where only paid for once.
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I think that is what google does not want to happen, the apps were paid for once from the owner of the purchase. They don't want people adding emails to a google account and giving away paid apps free just by adding emails.
Can't go back to the other address. The phone is for word so I'm using my work address going forward. Meanwhile everything purchased is back with the personal email. Any way to combine them? Quis how do you add another email to your account?
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Can't go back to the other address. The phone is for word so I'm using my work address going forward. Meanwhile everything purchased is back with the personal email. Any way to combine them? Quis how do you add another email to your account?
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Go to gmail > accounts > add account
You can set either account as your "preferred" account, but you have to have your original gmail account as your main to link the apps you purchased.
I would have to say that i agree with google here. i know it sucks in your situation but you know how many people would take advantage of that. I could buy an app and then let my wife have it on her acct too. like 9kracing said just add both accts to your phone.
Yeah but cmon is that info and warning displayed anywhere?!? I should have the ability to *transfer/move*, not multiple times to multiple accounts but just to another email address. Both are even under the same first name! 1:1 transfer nothing more. As if to say "Hey Google, I'm over here now".
@9kracing: "Go to gmail > accounts > add account" does that work for Google Apps? I'm not seeing that option at all and I've got OPS.
-T
You could forward all work mail to your personal account, and create a filter in gmail to give them a Lable, like "Work" and skip them showing up in your personal inbox.
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I looked into this for a long time, simply put, there is no way to swap app purchases from one gmail account to another.
That's really *really* annoying. Thoughts on if using Amazon Appstore gets around this issue?
Why not log into the gmail account that has the purchases and copy them to the sdcard? Then log in as the other account and install them from the sdcard.
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@9kracing: "Go to gmail > accounts > add account" does that work for Google Apps? I'm not seeing that option at all and I've got OPS.
-T
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I'm a little confused.
When I go to Gmail and hit menu, there is an "accounts" option. Go there. Now at the bottom of the screen, I have a little button that says "add account". I only have 1 gmail so I haven't tried it, but the concept seems pretty simple to me....
Yeah that's simple enough too. Then you can have all your paid apps on your sd card
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That's really *really* annoying. Thoughts on if using Amazon Appstore gets around this issue?
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Well, the apps purchased from the Amazon Appstore is also tied to the account that purchased it, but you can always change the email associated with the account.

Factory Restore to get free credit twice?

Remember reading if you do a factory reset or something you can get the free credit twice on two different accounts. True? If so how?
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I highly doubt it, and activating a second nexus on an account does not get you the credit a second time either.
Loop hole was fixed.
It's been fixed to limit to one $25 credit per CSSN in addition to one Google account if you own multiple units.
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It's been fixed to limit to one $25 credit per CSSN in addition to one Google account if you own multiple units.
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I bought an open box from Staples today. Was happy they had in stock and didn't know how to check if the credit had been used or not. I've tried a factory reset and I'm using my Gplay account that is linked to my phone so I know my account is active. I completed the CC form and have not received an email and when I try to buy an apps I continue to get the "add a card to get $25 credit" message even if I have the same card now listed 2x. Any idea how I can still avail of the credit? Is there a way to reach Google?
when i got my first unit, we used it to activate a bunch of accounts and we all got the 25 credit (reset, rinse, repeat)
only that they was limited to 1 was the 10 dollar from google wallet
they fixed the glitch now
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I bought an open box from Staples today. Was happy they had in stock and didn't know how to check if the credit had been used or not. I've tried a factory reset and I'm using my Gplay account that is linked to my phone so I know my account is active. I completed the CC form and have not received an email and when I try to buy an apps I continue to get the "add a card to get $25 credit" message even if I have the same card now listed 2x. Any idea how I can still avail of the credit? Is there a way to reach Google?
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There was a thread on this. The suggestion was to remove all credit cards from your Google Play account then perform a factory reset. You should see the offer when you sign in then should immediately get an Gmail notification regarding the credit. If you don't then the credit has already been claimed by that CSSN in Google's database. Try contacting Google to reset it on their end or take it back for a new sealed unit.

[Q] Canceling or selling a Nexus 4 that is linked to my Google account.

I am considering canceling my order, due to Google lying to me every time i inquire about it, as i still really have no idea what is going on. I may cancel it or i may just sell it locally when i get it, if i get it that is.
I am new to Android and I have a few questions.
1. When i checked out i clicked the check-box that said " link this device to my Google account". Lets say that i take delivery of the phone and then unbox it with the person that is going to buying it from me. What would i need to do in order to unlink it from my Google account so they do not have any of my information?
2. Can i just power it on and do a factory reset and remove my linked Google account? If so how would i do that?
3. How would warranty and returns work for the person that purchased it from me? For example, lets say i sell it to someone and then 5 days later the screen turns yellow or has some problem. Can they send it back to Google and get a replacement, or would they need me to help them with that?
Thanks
Dr. Bocephus said:
I am considering canceling my order, due to Google lying to me every time i inquire about it, as i still really have no idea what is going on. I may cancel it or i may just sell it locally when i get it, if i get it that is.
I am new to Android and I have a few questions.
1. When i checked out i clicked the check-box that said " link this device to my Google account". Lets say that i take delivery of the phone and then unbox it with the person that is going to buying it from me. What would i need to do in order to unlink it from my Google account so they do not have any of my information?
2. Can i just power it on and do a factory reset and remove my linked Google account? If so how would i do that?
3. How would warranty and returns work for the person that purchased it from me? For example, lets say i sell it to someone and then 5 days later the screen turns yellow or has some problem. Can they send it back to Google and get a replacement, or would they need me to help them with that?
Thanks
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Google states that the "link this device to my Google account" checkbox, when selected, means that they will push your username to the device when you set it up during first boot (ONLY username, you still need to put in your password).
I selected this box, but Google didn't push my username when I set up my phone... so... not sure how well that actually works...

Email used 4GB of data in 4 days?

I haven't had this problem before, though for some reason my email decided to use a ridiculous amount of data in 4 days, I'm not sure why and I'm wondering if anyone else has had this problem. I haven't changed anything since I got the phone. The settings are to check every 15 minutes in the background for new email. For now, I've restricted the background data, but I'm wondering why this happened. Any ideas?
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Did you figure out what happened ?
My wife today got data usage warning and it showed 3GB of data used by email from Feb 4-6.
I put data restriction on the phone and will call provider tomorrow to see if the can cut off data if it reaches certain number.
Thank god we have 6gb monthly or there would be some insane bill to pay.
Wow... Wtf lol. That's crazy.
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toyopl said:
Did you figure out what happened ?
My wife today got data usage warning and it showed 3GB of data used by email from Feb 4-6.
I put data restriction on the phone and will call provider tomorrow to see if the can cut off data if it reaches certain number.
Thank god we have 6gb monthly or there would be some insane bill to pay.
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You can always set a warning and also set a limit on your android phone so it doesn't use up all your data or go over. It's extremely helpful.
Also, check your data usage through your carrier first. It's possible that the phone may have calculated the data wrong (could be a bug or something).
Third, if it has really really used 4gb of your data then it maybe because you synced all your emails and while syncing all the emails, it may have amounted to 3-4GB (which doesn't seem possible to me). Good luck!
what sort of email is it? pop3 or is it an online system (hotmail, gmail, yahoo)
if you set it up for IMAP or some sort of setting to sync your entire online based mailbox with your phone it could easily bring in that much data... after years I finally cleaned out my gmail and am back down to only using 2GB haha
Isn't syncing with email done when you setup new email account ?
The phone worked fine for 2 months and this happened all of a sudden without adding any new additional email aco****s.
Could it be you got emails with large attachments like photos or pdf files? If photos are not resized they can easily run over 3 MB a piece. Same thing with pdf files they can be huge.
Sounds to me like another Auto-Sync funjob. When my girlfriend got her old HTC, it plastered 450mb in just 3 days syncing only e-mail. If I was you, I'd turn it off. Auto-Sync that is. Unless you desperately need it sync'd then I don't see the harm in simply opening the app and clicking refresh
When you first set up your email account on your mobile device, make sure next time you sync your mail via wifi. If the image download button is check under settings, un-check it.
That's ridiculous, I'm on my email every day, pandora for hours, youtube constantly, and amazon mp3 cloud, and have only used 550MB since January 31st.
Sinfamy said:
That's ridiculous, I'm on my email every day, pandora for hours, youtube constantly, and amazon mp3 cloud, and have only used 550MB since January 31st.
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I won't disagree that that is a crazy amount of data use... I'm almost done with my first month on the tmobile $30 plan (5gb) and dispite downloading a few movies via torrent, a good bit of netflix and hulu, LOTS of pandora and streaming music from my google and i'm right around 4gb so far after trying to kill all 5gb...
Well sinfamy, it all depends how much you use it. I can say that in 2 days, according to my device data usage I've used 728mb of data.

How to stop ALL Play Store Purchases?

I got my girlfriend an S7 Edge on my Sprint account recently. A few days later, I noticed my Sprint bill was inflating due to in-app purchases ("gold bars" for $1.07 each on some stupid game, dozens of them). So of course I used the Sprint website to disable charges to the acct.
Now I've just become aware that a Netflix charge put her account negative. I looked at her account and sure enough, she's been charging the same in-app purchases to her own debit card. It's frustrating because money is tight.
Anyway, counseling aside... She has her own Gmail/Google account, so short of changing her Gmail password & using the Google Play password requirement for all purchases (nothing to stop her from resetting her Gmail password) or putting her phone on my Google account, how can I use some Sprint or 3rd party app to prevent an *adult* from making any Google-related purchases, even with her own debit card & Google account? Is this possible?
Thanks.
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I can't think of anything to suggest besides a solution that would be significantly more drastic than the ones you've already mentioned & ruled out...
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I can't think of anything to suggest besides a solution that would be significantly more drastic than the ones you've already mentioned & ruled out...
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Such as? Drastic is not beyond my willingness. I was hoping Sprint or some 3rd party had an app designed for this purpose. Hard to stop an "adult" with her own debit card from entering CC info into her phone, ya know?
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There is no way, otherwise I could stop you from buying things. Talk to her, tell her it's real money and that it adds up.
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Hahaha. Get her a rooted phone and a cracked game and the stuff is free.
Dennis, the talk has been had, thrice, but she has an addictive personality, & not just for in-app purchases unfortunately. There is a much larger over-arching issue at play obviously, but I need to focus on just this one facet of it, for now. There has GOT to be a way to pull this off.
Come on guys... CaffeiNater: what was the drastic measure you alluded to?
Believe me Darth... I wish. Our S7's are the 1st phones I haven't rooted right out of the box, & we all know why. Careful with that kinda comment for the mod's sake though (he was clearly kidding mods).
Please brothers & sisters. I am officially desperate. Letting her bank account stay in the red has provided a temporary respit for now, but she gets paid Wednesday, & I have to go out of town to Houston on Monday for work all week.... Anyone? ANYTHING? AT ALL?
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There is no way, short of taking away her phone. Anything you do can be undone (cancel her debit card, she gets a new one; delete her google account and make her use yours, she can get a new account; change her password, same thing new account) sorry mate but either she learns or she doesn't.
The drastic measures I'd take are a fourth talk along the lines of "I'm not supporting you buying useless crap on the Internet. You get $X to spend on luxury items a month (same as me) so use it as you want, the rest of OUR money is used for bills and food. If you don't like it, pack your stuff." That kind of talk is hard, and it sucks, but either you won't have to worry about her spending all the money, or she will be a better person learning not to buy random crap in apps.
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You should be able to go into your sprint account and block 3rd party charges, that would keep her from charging to the account. As far as her isn't her debit card, I can't think of a way other than maybe creating a "game" account and put so much per month, once it's gone is gone till next month
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Here's what I ended up doing:
I took her phone (not covertly, I bought her the phone and I pay for the service) and I changed the password on her gmail account. I also changed the backup email account and backup text phone reset number to my own. Then I went into every single app on the phone that is linked to her Gmail account (OTHER THAN THE GOOGLE PLAY STORE) and entered the new PW, so that she will never be prompted for it, and have legit reason to ask me what it is.
The reset was psychological. Luckily she is extremely tech-naive. I told her what I had done, but then I also told her the *IF* she ever tried to reset the PW on her gmail account, OR link her phone to a new gmail account, that I would receive a text notification, and that all call/text/data service on her phone would immediately be disabled, other than emergency calls, and calls/texts to me. So far, this seems to have worked.
Am I a jerk?
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Here's what I ended up doing:
I took her phone (not covertly, I bought her the phone and I pay for the service) and I changed the password on her gmail account. I also changed the backup email account and backup text phone reset number to my own. Then I went into every single app on the phone that is linked to her Gmail account (OTHER THAN THE GOOGLE PLAY STORE) and entered the new PW, so that she will never be prompted for it, and have legit reason to ask me what it is.
The reset was psychological. Luckily she is extremely tech-naive. I told her what I had done, but then I also told her the *IF* she ever tried to reset the PW on her gmail account, OR link her phone to a new gmail account, that I would receive a text notification, and that all call/text/data service on her phone would immediately be disabled, other than emergency calls, and calls/texts to me. So far, this seems to have worked.
Am I a jerk?
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That seems like the best possible technological solution. You're not a jerk imo. The jerk move would be to enable her out of control behavior to continue.
(And sorry for the slow reply, but the drastic move I mentioned would be to end the relationship. Money issues such as this one are the reason many, many relationships end. Most problems tend not to go away on their own. Knowing that, think about whether it's better that things end when you're dating vs when there would be kids, divorce lawyers, etc involved. Sorry to get all negative. But the counseling that you mentioned initially would be a really good idea if you're envisioning a future together.)
Old fashion azz kicking would work
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