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We deploy all our Android applications using Android Enterprise Managed Google Play Accounts. We've authorised Juice SSH to be installed via the play store, however we want to purchase the Pro Version and deploy this. Speaking with the Juice SSH themselves they've advised it needs to be linked to a Google account which I'm unsure exactly how to do this??
Please could someone help.
As far as I'm aware Google used to provide support for something similar to Apple's Volume Purchasing Program (VPP), but have since discontinued that offering:
https://support.google.com/googleplay/work/answer/6150398?hl=en#
I believe they suggest to work with the app developer to identify an alternative licensing model. The developer for instance could add a Managed App configuration for a license key and then sell you that license key that you could add as a configuration for the app in order to unlock the Pro version. This would take development effort on the provider if they do not already offer such a capability.
This could mean, that you have to buy these licenses with your Google Account you use for the managed playstore but never done before.
We have it like Matt already said, so not sure if there's another possibility but i thnik there's nothing else possible:
Generally, we've seen enterprise-deployed applications licensed from outside of Google Play. That means an enterprise will pay you, the developer, and activate the application either through end-user authentication, or through entering in a license key. You can scale the license key distribution process through the use of managed configurations. Using managed configs, you can push a string that defines the license key down to the application that is defined in the customer's EMM, this eliminates the need for an end user to type the data in manually.
Google only support paid app deployment via their Google Play store around a year in the North America region some years ago, and had such services discontinued for over 2 years.
If develpers for Juice SSH do not add extra codes in their new version to provide DRM for Pro-version, there is nothing any MDM software or you as an end-user can do. The simplest is of course to support AppConfig framework with managed configuration parameter to be deployed automatically with MDM software. Alternatively, they can send license key to PRO licensee to be input manually in new UI added in the app itself via running on a device.
Hi Kevin,
Thanks for requesting a response from SOTI Support Staff, Also Thank you Raymond, Rafael and Matt for sharing your insights on the issue. After checking with product owners, This is out of scope of SOTI MDM solution and you need to check with the app developers on the issue.