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I believe the fee is only 20% if you use a third party billing system.

If one uses Google to process the payments the fee would be 25% (20% service fee + 5% billing fee) [1].

[1] https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2026/03/a-new-era-...

Is the Google billing system that good or easy? 5% sounds outrageous, but I guess if they make it 1-click easy, will scoop up everyone who is not big enough to work with a real payment processor.

I guess the question, what does an Amazon, Spotify, Uber, etc pay on the platform vs the 99% of businesses which are not a household name.

For card payments sure, but if you buy with play store gift cards bought from a third party retailer, I don't think Google is making much if anything out of that.

Aren't credit cards like 3.5% if you don't have a deal with them? 5% doesn't seem so bad. I've heard of 2% before

Charging double the competition seems pretty bad to me.

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