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Since its inception, the Chrome Web Store have been a good spot for developers to market and sell Chrome apps. The choices available to developers were always just a little slim though. Starting today, Google is fixing that.

Google announced today that Chrome Web Store is getting new monetization options, including in-app payment support. These new options are along with new publishing options rolling out today that Google says should help developers focus more on making great content and fewer on overhead.

Starting with monetization, Google says that extensions can now be monetized either through up-front sales or subscription fees. Developers may also earn a living through in-app payments. Speaking of which, in-app payments were added as another monetization option for packaged apps.

Themes have also been added to the list of Chrome Web Store items that may be monetized, but you could only offer them as paid up-front items. Needless to say, this only is smart as you can’t really offer a theme subscription or in-app payments. Still, it’s always good to determine people having the ability to finally earn a living off in their creative work.

So, now you understand concerning the new monetization options, but what concerning the new publishing options? For starters, developers can now manage all in their in-app payments directly from the developer dashboard. From the dashboard, it’s also possible to also “enable or disable products, provide localized descriptions, [and] set prices for various regions.”

Another new feature for packaged apps and extensions is the free trial option. Developers can now specify a certain quantity of time that an app can be utilized for gratis. After that, a purchase order ought to be made if the user desires to keep using it.

Perhaps the coolest new feature at the publishing side of items, however, is an update to the Chrome Web Store API that permits develoeprs to “programmatically create, update and publish items inside the Web store.” In other words, the Chrome Web Store now supports developers who use an automatic deployment process.

As always, Google welcomes feedback from the developer community. You are able to submit comments and insect reports via Stack Overflow.

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