The thing about buying credit on app stores is that because of the way apps are priced (and priced differently), what happens is that sometimes towards the end of your credit you don’t have enough left to purchase an app. This forces you to have to buy extra credit and because sometimes credit is sold at fixed amounts, this cycle will repeat itself over and over again.
The good news is that if you were annoyed by this feature of the Google Play Store, soon all of that could change. According to user reports shared by Android Police, it seems that Google is allowing split payments in the Google Play Store. What does this mean, and what are split payments, you ask?
As you can see in the screenshot above, basically split payments allows users to use the remaining credit in their Google Play Store account and pay the remaining balance with another payment method, like with a credit card. So for example if you have $0.99 left in your Google Play Store credit but the app costs $1.99, you can pay the $1 difference with your credit card (if you have one attached to it).
That being said it seems that for now, the feature has not gone live yet, at least not for many users. This seems to suggest that the feature is in its early stages of rollout so if you don’t see it yet, you’ll probably see it later. It is also unclear if this might be region-specific, such as the US, but we guess we’ll have to wait and see. In the meantime have any of our readers been given the same options?