I think people are missing that you can still charge for extension, just not with Google's payment system. Anyway, called this well over a year ago - whenever anyone asked for tips on how to integrate Chrome payments into their extension I would strongly recommend against it.<p>If you read the Chrome extension developers forums, you would have seen frequent posts about the payment system breaking, plus it was lacking lots of features like discount codes, letting you change subscription prices, being able to share purchases with Firefox (I wouldn't expect this from Google but it's a big negative) and letting you export user emails. It was clear Google wasn't interested in supporting the payments feature for a while. They've let it sit broken since the COVID lockdowns started which is completely insane (with unfortunate developers in the forums asking when it'll be fixed so they can integrate payments as if they think it's a one-off).<p>For what it's worth, I use Paddle + Firebase for a website SEO auditor extension I run (<a href="https://www.checkbot.io/" rel="nofollow">https://www.checkbot.io/</a>) and it works well, where Paddle addresses all of the downsides above.<p>If anyone wants any tips on setting up something similar, feel free to message me. I know a lot of people recommend Stripe, but Paddle takes care of country specific tax and VAT for you which is a big plus for reduced admin.<p>My extension was originally meant to be a Chrome App but they deprecated those before I launched haha.