Monetizing add-ons

[Ed Bacher]

Corentin Brossault, who is CTO and co-founder of Mailmeteor, has published a fascinating and useful article about how to monetize an add-on (or at least how they did it at Mailmeteor). Corentin writes clearly about the process -- this article was also featured on Apps Script Pulse. Thanks, Corentin!

https://mailmeteor.com/blog/monetize-google-workspace-addon

[Harrison Preston]

This is incredible, thank you! I was literally writing a question for this when I saw your post. Two follow up topics for anyone that may have thoughts, I'm new to this so forgive if these are simple questions:

1. It seems the only implementations I've seen for add-on monetization is a link out to a sign up page on the developers website. I wonder if anyone has seen good examples of a sign up / subscription page directly within the add-on without linking out to another site? Wondering if this is even possible. 
2. Does Google collect a portion of your revenues? Thought I saw somewhere that they do collect 20%, but if subscription management is hosted outside of the workspace environment, how would that be possible for them? 

Thanks again!

[Andrew Roberts]

And I'll just put this out there ... Subs - an Apps Script library for managing subscriptions

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[Ed Bacher]

Thanks, Andrew -- another piece of this puzzle! I suspect I may have questions about that too.

Ed

[DimuDesigns]

I'm going off on a tangent here; while scanning through Robert's Subs library (nicely done btw) a question came to mind - How effective is the Freemium payment model with respect to Google Add-ons?

I wonder if we have any concrete stats available. In a more general sense, there seems to be a trend with small to mid-tier service vendors moving away from offering 'free' product tiers (Heroku being a recent example). Am I the only one noticing this?

I'd love to see Martin Hawksey and company cover this topic in a Totally Unscripted episode.