haggaiy

Dear Noah,

Thank you for your timely and detailed response, I appreciate it. After investigating your plugin, it is rather clear that your methodology and professionalism are impressive to say the least.

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You correctly mention that it is “ok” to provide Google with billing information as there will not be a charge, and I understand where you are coming from.

However, Google do change their policies from time to time. Just last August, we had to start paying for our services from Google, after they’ve been free for over 10 years. Point being: Google can once again decide to charge for services that previously were provided for free, and we cannot rely on the current pricing structure to remain the same.

Since your business is not about GCP / Google API, but rather it is about providing a solution for presenting google reviews in a managed and designed manner… Then why not allowing users use your plugin by manually import google reviews, without connecting to Google API!?

This way you’d expand your user-base to users which do not wish to provide Google with their billing information…

By the way, a front-end feature which I loved, though it’s missing in your plugin, is the ability to submit a google review from within the site (rather than taking the user outside the site, to Google My Business to submit the review there). Perhaps it is made available only with Google My Business API, I have no clue…

Again thank you for your response and good work.