Guidelines
Practical guides to regional app pricing, purchasing-power concepts, Google Play workflows, and the decisions behind a price change.
Each article explains the concept, how to interpret it, and where its limits are. Account-specific operating steps remain in the dashboard. Machine-readable public articles are at /guidelines/raw.
What the product does, how to get a first result, and what it will never do behind your back.
The closed pricing loop, what each stage is responsible for, and which stages are live today.
Connect Google Play, import a catalogue, and read a full regional matrix. Roughly fifteen minutes, no store writes.
Every rule that stands between a calculation and a real price change, and why each one exists.
The vocabulary every screen uses: baselines, parity targets, strategies, rounding, confidence, drift.
What Google's own converted price is, why it is shown beside your price, and every reason the column can be blank.
How a recommended regional price is derived, from purchasing-power data through dampening, bounds, and rounding.
The three strategy presets, the exact intensities and bounds behind each, and how to choose between them.
How the confidence score is computed, the thresholds that gate a recommendation, and when the system abstains entirely.
The four drift severity bands, what triggers each, and why an exchange-rate movement can never authorize a store write.
Markets whose price is held regardless of what the strategy computes, and how to tell a real recommendation from a data artifact.
The operating loop, one task at a time, from connecting a store to measuring what a change did.
The eight steps from a service-account key to an imported catalogue, and what to check when one of them fails.
How the inbox is ordered, what makes an item approvable, and what approval does and does not do.
How a deployment draft is built and validated, what publishing does, and how a write is verified.
Every price a market has had since import, who changed it, and how to return a plan family to its original prices.
Exact formulas, inputs, statuses, and error codes. Look things up here rather than inferring them.
The exact arithmetic behind a parity target and a confidence score, with every constant and weight stated.
Every error code the application surfaces, what actually caused it, and what to do about it.
The words the product uses, and how each differs from the one it is most often mistaken for.
What each provider supplies, what it is allowed to change, and where its limits are.
The Android Publisher endpoints used, the scope and permissions required, and the limits of what the provider can do.
Connect App Store Connect to import an iOS app's subscriptions and current regional prices in read-only mode.
What the RevenueCat connection measures today, how coverage is reported, and why its ROI remains directional.
Permissions, credential custody, retention, audit records, and how failures are reported.
Where store credentials live, what the application database holds, and why authenticated calls execute outside it.
Where the economic data comes from, how coverage and freshness are handled, and which markets cannot be analyzed.
What the workspace audit log records, who can see it, how long it is kept, and how to export it.