Hoccer Business - Trial run in Google Play for Work

[ChristianeMussmacher]

Situation We regularly receive queries from small companies, governmental authorities and professionals who are looking for a messaging service for commercial usage. However, our current product "HOCCER WhiteLabel" is not suitable for these customers as development and operating costs exceed their budget. The queries ask most of the time for permission to use the service with a limited number of users (licenses) and a limited period of time.

GOAL

• Being able to provide small business customers with a Hoccer solution that is easy to access, install and available for a reasonable monthly fee.

The Google Play store and the Apple App Store provide the means to distribute business solution apps in a private store:

• Google Play for work (https://developer.android.com/distribute/googleplay/work/about.html)

ToDo

• Check if store provides possibility to sell app with monthly fee without implementing in-app payment feature.
• Perform test run by uploading Hoccer built to business store

[ChristianeMussmacher]

10.05.2017: Set up new Account for Business App on Google Play and "Distributing paid apps in managed Google Play is not currently supported in your country"