Subscription setup
Grow your revenue with subscriptions and let Play take care of payment, notifications, and subscription management
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Maximize acquisition
Attract new subscribers with free trials, introductory pricing, and promotions across Google.
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Retain your customers
Reduce subscriber churn by offering grace periods, account holds, pause, upgrades, and downgrades.
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Customize your subscriptions
Tailor your subscriptions to your needs with adjustable billing frequency, localized pricing, and price changes.
Best practices
- Let users try your app before subscribing by offering a free trial for a duration of your choosing or specify an introductory price that applies to a set number of billing periods.
- Offer the option to pay over time with an installment subscription for users considering a long-term subscription, such as an annual plan (currently available in France, Italy, Spain and Brazil).
- Allow your subscribers to update their payment method if a recurring payment is declined with grace periods.
- Add the ability for users to switch from one plan to another (upgrade or downgrade) or to re-sign up to keep access.
- To reduce voluntary churn and provide users an alternative to canceling their subscription, you can enable users to pause their subscription.
Find out more
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How to create a subscription
Learn how to add a subscription to your app, including your responsibilities as a developer.
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Driving buyer behavior with subscriptions
Learn how to optimize your subscriptions revenue stream based on user motivations and engagement behavior.
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Developer documentation
Learn how to use Google Play Billing to enable subcription-specific features in your app.
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Subscription models for games
Learn how to apply a subscriptions model to your game with a free, on-demand course from Play Academy.
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