Google is finally opening the Play Store to third-party payments

While the court has yet to sign off on the massive settlement resolving Epic’s antitrust lawsuit against Google over its monopoly over the Android App Store with Google Play, The tech giant says it will start rolling out the changes To the way it handles billing for developers around the world. As announced in Marchthe flat 30 percent billing fee will be replaced with “lower, separate fees” that partially separate billing from the App Store.

How much cut will Google take from transactions? Depends now About whether it was for a user who first installed before or after the new build, how much the developer earned, and whether or not the developer was using the Google Play billing system with a 5 percent surcharge, rather than an alternative system or linking to their website.

For apps that generate more than $1 million annually, that will be 20 percent for new in-app purchases and 10 percent for subscriptions. But Google It also announced the Games Level Up and Apps Experience programmeFor “Exceptional” and “Premium” experiences that meet its guidelines by working across platforms (such as tablets, smart TVs, or Android Auto), meeting memory usage and crash rate standards, and supporting features it recommends (such as cloud saves or phishing-resistant logins) to qualify for a lower rate on both new and existing installs.

Other changes to the program will take effect in some regions at the end of September, at the end of the year, before being rolled out to the rest of the world after September 30, 2027.