859484 - Make free apps with in-app payments really FREE

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Marketplace Graveyard :: Payments/Refunds, defect, P2)

Description

[Kumar McMillan [:kumar]]

When an app is free (with in-app payments) let's ensure these things:
* The app is truly free and can be installed by anonymous users
* No receipt is issued for the app

Due to internal implementations of tier 0 we may need to special case apps with in-app payments for this.

Comment 2

[Kumar McMillan [:kumar]]

When fixing this, please ensure free apps w/ in-app payments do *not* show up in paid search results. See bug 865152 for STR

Comment 3

[krupa raj[:krupa]]

(In reply to Kumar McMillan [:kumar] from comment #0)
> When an app is free (with in-app payments) let's ensure these things:
> * The app is truly free and can be installed by anonymous users
> * No receipt is issued for the app
> 
> Due to internal implementations of tier 0 we may need to special case apps
> with in-app payments for this.

Note that according to David, price tier 0 apps should still get a receipt and they shouldn't allow anonymous installs. 

We need to make a final decision on what it means for an app to be a price tier 0 app.

Comment 4

[Kumar McMillan [:kumar]]

(In reply to krupa raj 82[:krupa] from comment #3)
> Note that according to David, price tier 0 apps should still get a receipt
> and they shouldn't allow anonymous installs. 

I spoke with David about this and it was just a misunderstanding. Apps that are free with in-app payments are a special case (they are not intended for promotions). They should work just like free apps:
- no receipt
- anonymous users can install

I'll make sure David is clear on it.

It is very important that apps with in-app payments are free because this is an essential part of the business model of in-app payments.

Comment 6

[Kumar McMillan [:kumar]]

This is not working for me. These are my STR:
- log out
- search for webfighter (free w/ in-app)
- install

It asks me to log in before I can install the app which is wrong. It should allow anonymous installs.

Comment 7

[Christopher Van Wiemeersch [:cvan]]

According to the API

https://marketplace.firefox.com/api/v1/fireplace/app/webfighter/?carrier=telefonica&lang=en-US&pro=3040fe.32.1&region=es

Webfighter has a `premium_type` of `paid-inapp` (which means it's a paid app costing $0.00 - in tier 0 and it offers in-app purchases). Since it's a paid app, we need to generate the receipt (requiring you to first sign in).

From our IRC conversation what it sounds like we need is to allow from the DevHub an option to set your app to be wholly free w/ in-app (not tier 0) in addition to having promotionally free ($0.00) paid w/ in-app.

Comment 8

[Kumar McMillan [:kumar]]

ok. This needs a devhub fix in payments setup and possibly some fireplace work to support the new free+inapp type.

Comment 9

[[e-mail]]

(In reply to Kumar McMillan [:kumar] from comment #8)
> ok. This needs a devhub fix in payments setup and possibly some fireplace
> work to support the new free+inapp type.

You can already make an app "free" with in-app from devhub.

Comment 10

[Andy McKay]

I believe its already there, webfighter was uploaded before Stuarts fix was in. You can go to webfighter and change it or upload a new app to verify this.

Comment 11

[Kumar McMillan [:kumar]]

Oh, neat! James, could you go into the prod Devhub and see if you can make Webfighter free instead of $0.00?

Comment 12

[James Long (:jlongster)]

(In reply to Kumar McMillan [:kumar] from comment #11)
> Oh, neat! James, could you go into the prod Devhub and see if you can make
> Webfighter free instead of $0.00?

I just did that. I'm not exactly sure what difference this makes now?

Comment 13

[krupa raj[:krupa]]

I can install Webfighter without signing in to marketplace prod.

Comment 14

[krupa raj[:krupa]]

verified fixed