How are you handling licensing/payments of google chrome extensions?
Ever since paid apps were deprecated from the webstore one has to handle everything themselves. How is is usually done? Any systems I can integrate with or do I need to do everything from scratch?
Thanks
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short answer: stripe :) .. how is your extension built and structured? does it use a database?
it's just client side code. But I'm ready for some azure function to handle licensing.
hi! I made ExtensionPay to solve just that problem. It gives you a simple JavaScript API to take payments directly in your browser extensions without needing to make your own server backend. Saves you the time, hassle, and costs of running your own server and it's free to use! I'm using ExtensionPay in my own extensions 😎
ExtensionPay also works across all browsers (not just Chrome) so you can potentially increase your user base and revenue by releasing your extension for Chrome, Firefox, Edge, Opera, Brave, etc using one payment system.
Let me know if you have any questions!
Beautiful :) I was about to make my own and open source it!
Do you support recurring payments?
Want me to write an article about it for a backlink?
Have you got any insight for how much to charge given some functionality?
Recurring/subscription payments are coming soon!
If you want to write something I'd be grateful 🙏
There's no formula for this — it's totally based on your market. Closet Tools makes $38k/month with $30/month subscriptions and this weather extension makes $2.5k/month with one-time payments. Happy to try to figure it out with you if you want to talk about your specific ideas!
Are you sending out a notification? I've signed up, but need recurring payments. I might play around with it and send a PR :)
Will do! I have about 800 followers on medium.com and tech articles tend to perform well.
Did you end up releasing your extension? ExtensionPay now supports recurring subscription payments.
Yeah, I'll be sure to send you a note when recurring payments come out :)
And awesome, please let me know what you write or if you want any feedback or anything!