Billing for externally enabled functionality
<p>I am in the early stages of scoping an app that targets a specific vertical market. It is not consumer orientated. The organisation developing the app has existing web-based products and established infrastructure for registering user accounts and billing for those products, and the app should inter-operate with these products. To that end, I have a few questions:</p>

<p>1) If the app that has functionality that can only be enabled from outside the app (for example, via a separate web site) and where the developer bills the user for doing this:</p>

<p>Q1. Can this App be distributed using Google Play?</p>

<p>Q2. Since enabling the functionality takes place outside of the app, does the developer have to use Google Play's payment system to bill for it?</p>

<p>2) If the app which allows a user to create an item of content on a separate web site, so that they can subsequently modify it on that site and be billed for doing so (eg, a bug tracking app that charges for creating a bug record on a site):</p>

<p>Q3 Does this count as an in-app purchase and require use Google Play's payment system to bill for it?</p>

<p>Where can I find definitive statements from Google on these scenarios? I am only finding material that relates to consumer applications where the purchasing and billing scenario is fairly simple.</p>
