I signed up as an associate to use the API, but then when clicking the Product Advertising API, it did not let me sign up. I emailed to see how I can access it and was told this:
Registration for the Product Advertising API is only available to Associates that have been reviewed and received final acceptance in to the Associates Program.
Applications that are in the pending approval status will be reviewed once 3 referrals are made on the application.
I don't know what that really means, and I don't even necessarily want to be an associate; I just want to use this API to get Amazon search results for a browser extension. Anyone know how I can achieve this?
They added a new rule recently ! You can only use the Product API if you have sold at least 3 items.
I've tried to do this with a different account and credit card, but I still got 0% commission lol
and then you need to contact to amazon
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I am working with EBAY [REST API]. For this i am using SANDBOX [which is test enviornment of Ebay]. I have created a developer account and two sandbox test user.For acting as a buyer and seller.I am trying to create listing using seller account. i created the product in the inventory but when i publish offer it gives me error and i could not publish the offer. it give me error like create policies etc.
I want to create a product using seller account and then buy tht product using buyer account.
Is there any other way to create listing ?
I am following this : https://developer.ebay.com/devzone/guides/features-guide/content/basics/Call-SandboxTesting.html
Since you have not specified the exact error you are getting when making the publishOffer call, I will try to outline the whole process for reference. The prerequisite steps for publishing an offer from your sandbox account are:
Create Payment, Fulfillment, and Return policies for your sandbox account. For this, you may call their respective APIs or you can use their API Explorer which has sample policy requests ready to be executed or, easiest of all, you can manage your business policies from the sandbox website here
Create your inventory item using createOrReplaceInventoryItem call
Create an inventory location for the created item through the createInventoryLocation API call. Your offer won't publish without this.
Create an offer for the inventory item. Specify the offer details, such as fulfillment, payment, return policy IDs, category ID, inventory location ID, etc
Publish the offer
There are quite a few requirements, specific to the type of item you are providing through a listing, that you have to fulfill before eBay will let you publish the offer. You can find more information about this in the error response you get when publishing the offer.
With that said, eBay's sandbox has behaved very unreliably in the past from my experience. So if you are doing everything right and still running into problems, as a last resort, you can try creating the listing by using eBay's Trading API's AddItem call. I have personally found these sets of eBay APIs to be more reliable (albeit more outdated).
I am using express and mongodb.
I have succesfully added stripe, and i can make a test payment succesfully, i followed this tutorial: https://stripe.com/docs/checkout/express
So, my question is, what would be the steps to take, so that when a user pays, he gets a flag of "pro user" and then he can accces certain features.
what is normally the process here? are there any tuts or guidelines i can check ? thx!
Its not about stripe, you need to add the features for the paid users. Consider i have an option to show feature listing in my application which can be accessed only by paid users. If this case, you can make a flag in db for paid users when they completed there payment. Only those users can access the page others will shown a message like "Subscribe to access the page". This is the simple example to different paid and normal user functionality
Slovakia has been added recently to list of supported Merchant countries for Google Play.
I have an account in Czech Republic (CZK) paired with Merchant Account with active paid and free apps and want to change the country to Slovakia (EUR) - mostly because i of the fees related to money transfers from a different currency (CZK to EUR) on my business account.
I have been searching on Google but found nothing except for transferring all my apps to new developer account. I'm afraid that this will hurt my play store search positions and i won't be able to transfer the Google Play Services data (LeaderBoards, Achievements)
Also i want to keep the package names.
Had someone done this? How should i proceed?
June 2017 update:
Apps with subscriptions can now be transferred!!!
The original answer:
This is a complete answer I got from Google:
Hi,
Thanks for contacting Google Play Developer Support.
I understand you'd like to change the country associated with your Google Payments Merchant account. Once your Google Payments Merchant account has been created, it's not possible to change the country associated with that account. Instead, I can cancel and refund your existing developer account and transfer your apps to a new developer account that has the appropriate merchant country details.
To get started with this process:
Edit your current developer account name. If you'd like to continue to use your developer name with the new account, you’ll need to change your current name in order to free it up for the new account. For example, name the old account “xxx-OLD,” so you can use "xxx" in your new account. Make sure you save your settings.
Create a second Google Account (with a new, different email address). After you've created the new account, you will need to configure Google Payments with a billing address corresponding to your preferred merchant country.
After you've registered the newly created Google Play Developer Console account, create a new Google Payments Merchant account from the Developer Console. Pay special attention to the country listed for your legal business address. You may need to adjust your Google Payments settings if you haven't configured your billing address properly.
Use this online checklist to submit your app transfer request.
Please note however at this time, an app transfer can't be completed with in-app subscriptions currently or previously configured for your app; this includes subscriptions that do not have subscribers, or those apps which have had all subscriptions canceled.
I understand this limitation can be frustrating, and I apologize that we don't currently have a more seamless way to transfer these applications across accounts. We're actively working with our teams to design a better experience for developers with apps using in-app subscriptions, though we do not currently have an ETA.
I appreciate your understanding, and your dedicated support of Google Play.
Regards,
xxxxx
Google Play Developer Support
The country associated with your Google Play Developer account can't be changed. However, you can create a new account that uses a different country and transfer your apps to your new account.
To transfer apps to a new account, you'll need to prepare some account information. To learn what information you need and to send your request, go to the Google's app transfer checklist.
Reference: https://support.google.com/googleplay/android-developer/answer/139626
I have a situation where I am to bill the site users monthly. But the invoice amount that is raised depends on the the leads that our site generates for his business. For example if the user gets 5 leads from my site and I charge him $10 per lead, at the end of month he will be charged $50. similarly leads might vary each month so will the amount.
Now I cant store his cc/ paypal credentials on my site for security reasons nor can I pre bill him or ask him to take credits and then use it. Please let me know the way to handle this situation. How can I handle this using paypal?
There are a few different ways to handle this, but I would recommend Preapproved Payments, which are part of the Adaptive Payments API.
With this method your users would create a profile with you (using the Preapproval API) when they first create their account on your site. That will give you a preapproval key that you can store with your user account. Then in the future when you need to bill them you can use the Pay API with the preapproval key to process funds immediately without further approval.
If you're working with PHP my class library for PayPal will make these calls very simple for you. You would just use the Preapproval.php template to setup the profiles for people, and then use PayWithOptions.php to process payments using the preapproval key(s) accordingly.
If you end up using it and need more help you can contact me directly for support.
Looking for some advice on which service to use to implement the following on my site:
I would like to sell 4 levels of subscriptions each to be billed on a monthly basis
The customer should be able to cancel their subscription at any time
The customer should be able to upgrade and downgrade their subscription at any time
I would like to keep the cost down until I have enough subscribers.
I have looked at Paypal but could not figure out how I can do requirements #3. Posting to their community forums yielded no response.
I am also located in Canada which seems to limit the options available to me.
I am currently looking at www.preedly.com and www.chargify.com but they seem to require a merchant account so I'd end up paying 2 service providers.
My site is written in PHP so a PHP-friendly solution is needed.
One last thing, I could not find a way to get Paypal to tell me the new subscription expiry date (following the successful processing of a transation) in order for me to update my customer table and lock out those who have not paid.
You may want to look into gettings a US based merchant account (I used to work for a merchant account provider and we were able to successfully establish merchant account for Canadian businesses. IIRC it required some hoops to be jumped through, though). If you can get a US merchant account you then can use Authorize.Net's Automated Recurring Billg (ARB) API. It allows you to create subscriptions and modify them accordingly (upadting and deleting).