Samer and all thanks for your reply, all the info you guys provided is completely true and I approve it. Just wanted to ask you if any of you did something similar to receive payments (through other services from google maybe like Admob) and what problems did you face? What bank do you recommend? I am pretty sure that there is some developer in Lebanon that did this and got it working (because there are apps in the playstore that are Lebanese and they offer In App Purchases).
Ccurious_inquirer
- Nov 5, 2018
- Joined Nov 4, 2018
- Thanks rolf for your reply, google and apple stated clearly through their docs that they support Lebanon to receive payments?
- NuclearVision thanks for the reply, yeah I also think that it should be the way you said. But I do not know if the banks in Lebanon accept money to come directly from google or apple and I do not think that they are understanding what does it mean that they are the ones handling the processing of the payment from customers. I want to ask you or anyone else if you know someone who tried to get paid from apps in Lebanon?
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I am new here; hi for all.
Long story short: I am developing two applications: Android and iOS. These applications contain digital items that one can buy (in-app purchases).
What do I mean by in-app purchases?
The kind of in-app purchases that I am talking about are NOT those where I should process their payments, card holder details, etc.. So, I am NOT going to handle payments in any way. However, the kind of in-app purchases that I am talking about are ones where I will use iOS and Android APIs such as the Google Play Billing Library that handles these sorts of billings.
After customers pay for my in-app products, their money that will, originally, be processed and handled by either google or apple must be, then, received by me through a bank account.
As I am Lebanese, I talked to one of the best Lebanese banks and for the first instant, they did not quite understand what I meant, so they issued me to another company that is related to them and that "might" be able to handle these payments through a payment gateway. I am pretty sure that the services they are offering me via this "company" is what Google and Apple are already doing. It looks to me like more money will be deducted from me as this process will be happening twice. It makes no sense to me for a company to handle already handled payments!
Can you, as professionals, help me understand what are Lebanese banks trying to offer me? I am very confused.
If anyone has already published a paid app or an app with in-app purchases without going through all this fuss, please let me know.
As Lebanon is supported by google for merchant accounts, isn't this process supposed to be as easy as opening an account in the desired bank and giving google that account and that's it?