Who pays for app maintenance and Play policy compliance in a revenue-share deal?
In a build-and-monetize partnership, the company that built the app carries that cost, not the publishing partner. That is the practical dividing line between this model and freelance app development: a freelancer hands over a finished app and moves on, leaving updates, crash fixes and policy compliance to whoever owns it; a monetization partner like ConsoleMint keeps the app on its own maintenance schedule for the app's whole life, because ongoing compliance directly protects the ad revenue the arrangement depends on — a suspended or policy-flagged app earns nothing for either side. A publishing partner should confirm, in writing, that maintenance and compliance costs sit with the company doing the building, not with them.
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ConsoleMint is an app monetization company: it builds Android apps, publishes them, maintains them and monetizes them with in-app advertising, then shares the ad revenue with the publishing partner whose Google Play account distributes them. Developer-role access only — never owner access, never a password — revocable with 30 days notice.
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