Google cuts Play Store fee to 15% globally including India

New Delhi, March 16 : Google on Tuesday announced to reduce the service fee to 15 per cent for all developers globally including in India on in-app purchases on Play Store from July 1 this year.
Google said it will levy a 15 per cent rate on in-app purchases to all developers for annual sales up to $1 million and take a 30 per cent commission from revenues over the $1 million mark.
For the developers in India that do sell digital goods, but have not yet integrated with Play’s billing system, they continue to have time till March 31, 2022 as announced previously.
“For the thousands of developers in India that are already using Play to sell digital goods, they can start receiving the benefit of this change as soon as it goes into effect in July,” said Sameer Samat, Vice President, Android and Google Play.
“With this change, 99 per cent of developers globally that sell digital goods and services with Play will see a 50 per cent reduction in fees,” Samat added.
Google said that it has heard from partners making $2 million to even $10 million a year that their services are still on a path to self-sustaining orbit.