Dear valued Android customers, we would like to apologise and advise that our the Android app is currently not available in the Google play store.

We have had to remove it due to an issue with Google, whereby Google is not accepting payments from our company as it is based in Jersey (Channel Islands). Apple also does not have an issue with companies based in Jersey. Jersey is a self governing, independent, UK overseas territory with a year round population of 105,000 people and over 700,000 tourist visitors each year. We do not really understand why Jersey businesses are not allowed to provide paid for Apps in the Google play store?

Google’s suggestion to us at this time, is to move our App to a subsidiary company in another country. As a small business we find this a trade barrier to entry. Most App developers are small companies, start-ups and often individuals, who are risking their own funds to bring new ideas and products to the App Store, the vast majority of who fail to make a profit, they certainly do not have access to subsidiaries as a multinational would. Creating barriers like this is unfair and unhelpful.

We hope Google’s position is an anomaly that has just been over looked and we hope to find a solution and to return the App to the Play Store in the future.

If you wish to contact Google about this to help us to reinstate the App, please feel free to do so.

Our iOS App is of course still available in the Apple App Store if you have access to an iPhone, here: https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/trackingdays/id657769643