Is there a standard way to setup payments for an app?

Thanks for all the helpful answers above. When I originally wrote one of my apps I started "rolling my own" but fell down at the web backend expertise.

The buy a beer works to a very limited extent eg around a thousandth of a percent so few beers especially with today's inflation!! When I was working I didn't mind but I'm considering what it is worth investing in and whether this "hobby" can be taken further.

I'll have a look in more detail at the above.

regards,

David

Just got another $10us donation for one of my free apps.  And I don't have to worry about things you listed!

As an avg, how much does someone with a watch face get by way of kpay, in say a month? (not for a dev with 50 clones, but a single watchface)

you've got some good apps :-) Even with fast support it has been the earlier adopters (within the first thousand people) who offered beer money... would be interesting to hear abut payment rates.

I don't know, but if you look at downloads in the ciq store, then you'll see 3 types of apps:

free - some with hundreds of thousands of downloads

pro - pro versions of free apps (sometimes with additional features, sometimes just as a different way to send a beer) - these usually have much less downloads (and even not sure how many actually paid)

sneaky - apps that were free in the past and turned into paid after they already had thousands of free users - in this case it's hard to know the numbers, but i bet the paying users percentage is not much higher than in the free/pro case + you get the angry users as well.

I would feel in wrong to take the sneaky approach hence why I would apply payment to a new app. The old app is up to 45k downloads now.

I got 1 donation of $15 out of 57k users

We live in a world of "free". Hence I can either invest more time in Garmin or look at building a throttle body security device for my car which would be a mix of HW and real time SW plus IOS app development.

That varies wildly, depending on many things, one important is the quality of the watchface, but another very important one, which you have basically no control over, is visibility in the appstore.

One thing is very clear, having more than one watchface and selling them as bundles drastically increases your revenue.

If I had to guess I'd say with one quality watchface you could make $50 - $100 per month, if you have a bundle with many and manage to end up in the featured section that becomes a lot more quickly.

There are about 200 devs using our system that make $50 per month or more. Some a lot more.

I get a few a week.