Subscription setup
Grow your revenue with subscriptions, and let Play take care of payment, notifications and subscription management
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Attract new subscribers with free trials, introductory pricing and promotions across Google.
Retain your customers
Reduce subscriber churn by offering grace periods, account holds, pause, upgrades and downgrades.
Customise your subscriptions
Tailor your subscriptions to your needs with adjustable billing frequency, localised pricing and price changes.
Best practices
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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.
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Offer the option to pay over time with an instalment subscription for users considering a long-term subscription, such as an annual plan (currently available in France, Italy, Spain and Brazil).
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Allow your subscribers to update their payment method if a recurring payment is declined with grace periods.
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Add the ability for users to switch from one plan to another (upgrade or downgrade) or to re-sign up to keep access.
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To reduce voluntary churn and provide users an alternative to cancelling their subscription, you can enable users to pause their subscription.
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How to create a subscription
Learn how to add a subscription to your app, including your responsibilities as a developer.
Driving buyer behaviour with subscriptions
Learn how to optimise your subscriptions revenue stream based on user motivations and engagement behaviour.
Developer documentation
Learn how to use Google Play Billing to enable subscription-specific features in your app.
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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Game developers boost engagement with Google Play subscriptions
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MatchingAgent increased tapple's lifetime value 30% with subscriptions on Google Play
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