Last week I was very surprised when clicked a link to create Google Checkout account and found my country on the list - as till then Poland has not been officially supported. We have been allowed to add free apps to Android Market but could not sell anything! I have immediately filled all forms and registered account on my country with my legal business name and address. Unfortunately I could not add my bank account number as it was not accepted by the form. I could not find any official news anywhere on the Internet about new countries. Moreover message asking me about my AdSense account number has been popping up on my Android Market console.
I have even added my first paid app to the market without any problems. After multiple tries of providing my AdSense publisher id and getting error I gave up and written following message to Android Market support.
I tried Google Chrome and Internet Explorer. Can not join with AdSense
in both cases. I get error:Failed to add the provided AdSense account. Please check your AdSense
Publisher ID and try again. If you received an error message
previously, please refresh this page before re-submitting your AdSense
Publisher ID.
Two days later I have received e-mail with the reply that meant nothing. Anyway someone have taken some steps to write me back and has started to investigate the case (Poland has still not been added to any official support list). Moreover some rumor has appeared on Facebook and Android Forums. So I have not been the only one that could register! So here is their first reply:
Hello Krzysztof,
Thank you for your note. Our team is currently investigating your report. We hope to have a resolution soon, and will contact you when we have an update or if we need further information.
Thank you for your patience.
If we can assist you further, please let us know.
Regards,
The Android Market Team
So now I could do nothing more than wait. I have written few messages to polish Android forum. Unfortunately original topic has been hidden by guys that seems to be afraid of sharing such great news and most developers do not have access to it... It seems that some things like links and messages have changed a little in meantime that may be predicting some soon changes.
But all I have written till now is nothing! Today night (of polish time) I have received another reply form Android Market Team! It is first official information I have heard! And it looks that not only Polish developers may expect changes! Here is their reply:
Hello,
Last week we temporarily activated the ability for Android Market
Developers in Poland and the Czech Republic to create Google Checkout
Merchant Accounts. This ability has since been de-activated and we
appreciate your patience while we work to fully release this support to
our developer community.You're receiving this email because your developer account currently
contains a paid app. Please note that although you were able to publish
this paid app, your developer account still does not support the PL/CZ
currency types and therefore you cannot be paid out in these currencies.Please refrain from publishing any further paid apps until we release full
merchant account and currency support for your locale.We apologize for any inconvenience this issue has caused and we appreciate
your patience while we strive to resolve this issue.If we can assist you further, please let us know.
Regards,
The Android Market Team
It looks that we have never been closer to paid apps support for Poland and Czech! So what are your predictions? What may be the final date of opening market for our countries? All comments are welcome and highly desired!
I THINK ITS GREAT MAY BE IN FUTURE MARKET WILL ALLOW YOU FOR PAID APPS.
AND KRECI WHY R U NOT PUBLISHING YOUR INCOME REPORT.
I will post about future of my income reports next week…
hohoho love it. cant wait to see this in our country.. :-)
So do I! Hope it will by in next few days!
Superandzko :).
It’s nice, but… my revenue from free apps with admob ads was is sky rocketing lately. I managed to make an app that was downloaded by 300.000 users in a month. So on the one hand I do not feel that I really need to have paid apps. But on the other, if 10% of them bought the ad-free version for, say, 0.50 EUR… why not? Managing the income from ads is relatively easy from accounting point of view (as an electronic service to the non-EU entity (admob)). Do you have any idea what it would take in case from paid apps revenue? Is the Google-Ireland the payer then?
Im in the same situation. Just wandering what will happen when I will publish a paid app despite google note on mz developer account…
Let me know when you try. I have published one app before Google note and it is selling like for now.
Does anyone happens to recall what other countries was in the “extra” list (other than Poland) that day you guys signed up for merchant? I’m just wondering if my home country (Malaysia) is gonna get merchant support anytime soon…
According to official Google statement only Poland and Czech has been temporary enabled. Unfortunately there are no any further news about permanently enabling support for our countries.
Hi,
Can you help me with one simple issue? How should I submit my IBAN account number in Admob payment details? With spaces each 4 characters or without spaces?
I have submitted it in following format (and works ok) PLXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX.
Hi,
do you plan to update your blog ?
regards
Hi Kreci,
one basic question, if there are no clicks on the ad..is there a chance to earn money based on number of ad views(impressions)?
If anyone uses your app there will be some clicks. So you should rather try to make popular app and you will get clicks.
I’ll never understand why Google is so reluctant to expand into newer territories. Eastern European programmers are already responsible for a huge chunk of all the video games we play and apps and programs we use, what’s the harm in giving these guys the opportunity to directly profit from their hard work?
Looks like there will be no more income updates in this blog :(
It makes me sad :(
Me too :(
Kreci, why you are not publishing your report?
I will be updating blog soon but most probably I will not be publishing full monthly income reports anymore. But you may expect some valuable tips and update of the eBook.
sad :(
but there are some similar blogs that publish reports
not so good like this one but quite fair
Good news for you!
Starting today (12 April 2012 at 1:30 PM), developers in Czech Republic, Israel, Poland, and Mexico can sell priced applications and in-app products on Google Play, using their local bank accounts for payments.
Details can be found here. ;)
http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2012/04/new-seller-countries-in-google-play.html
Yes I know about it. Anyway thanks for sharing.
My country is Kazakhstan and I can’t submit paid app to Play Market. Submitted my app as a free with Ads but my app is click & point game and it’s freezes when the Ad’s comes up and player changed the scene by clicking((((