Making it even easier to monetize your games
By Peng Ying, Developer Advocate
(Cross-posted on the Google
Commerce Blog)
As any merchant knows, the easier the path to purchase, the more likely the sale. That’s why
the
In-App
Payments team is dedicated to developing a simple, yet intuitive API that makes the
in-app purchase experience effortless for your customers -- leading to a higher conversion
rate for you. Over the last few weeks, we’ve made some improvements to the API that we wanted
to share:
Additional Currencies Accepted
With the
recent
international expansion of In-App Payments, we’ve expanded the types of currencies
accepted so you can sell your goods in your customer’s native currency. If you’ve set up shop
in the United Kingdom but your customer base is mostly in Japan, you can specify prices for
your good in Japanese Yen and Google automatically handles currency conversion for you.
As of today, the supported currencies for In-App Payments are:
To use a different buyer currency, just specify the currency code in the JWT request:
"request" => {
"name" => "Piece of Cake",
"description" => "Virtual chocolate cake to fill your virtual
tummy",
"price" => "1000",
"currencyCode" => "JPY",
"sellerData" =>
"user_id:1224245,offer_code:3098576987,affiliate:aksdfbovu9j"
}
Card Details Minimized
In order to purchase through In-App Payments customers must first create a Google Wallet
account, but entering payment information can be cumbersome. So, we’ve cut the amount of
information that your customer has to enter when adding a new credit card to their Google
Wallet. Now customers in many countries only need to specify their postal code instead of a
full address, making the experience of creating or updating a Google Wallet quick and
painless.
Terms of Service in Context
We’ve incorporated the Terms of Service into the purchase confirmation page to reduce the
number of pages a new Google Wallet user sees before completing a purchase. This means that
your new customers can easily review the Terms of Service and get to enjoying their items
faster.
If you have any questions about
Google In-App
Payments, please reach out to us in the
forum. We’ll also be
hosting a regularly scheduled
Google+
Hangout the first and third Thursday of every month at 9 a.m. PST to answer any
technical questions about implementation of the API or about these new updates.
Stay tuned as we have plenty of new features to be released in 2012. Happy monetizing!
Posted by Scott Knaster,
Editor
