Google is finally opening the Play Store to outside payments

June 24, 2026 Richard Lawler

Google Play demo screen of alternative billing

While the court still hasn't signed off on the massive settlement resolving Epic's antitrust lawsuit against Google for having a monopoly over Android's app store with Google Play, the tech giant says it will start rolling out changes to the way it handles billing for developers worldwide. As announced in March, the flat 30 percent billing fee is being replaced by "lower, decoupled fees" that partially decouple the billing and the app store.

How much of a cut Google will take from transactions now depends on whether it's for a user whose first install came before or after the new structure, how much a developer has earned, and whether or no …

Read the full story at The Verge.

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