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How do you make payments to firebase / Google Cloud Platform (GCP) from India?

We have just move to production and are not able to add any payment method to the GCP.

  1. Google rejects our credit, debit cards due to some error at their end. The support team says its a known issue but they have no timeline to resolve this. The cards are VISA and Mastercard, match all the requirements as this and have no problem on other platforms.

  2. Their 1st suggestion is to enable invoice based billing but since we are newly founded startup we don't match their criteria of revenue.

  3. The 2nd suggestion was to connect with google cloud partner to process the payment. I have contacted 10 Partners and everyone says they cant help us with payments.

This is a pressing issue for us as free credits will run out in a month. I want to know how others are dealing with this since its not very specific to us.

Solution

  • Due to regulations from the Reserve Bank of India, you might be unable to charge automatically.

    1. If your usage cost is more than 5000 INR; you cannot use it for automatic payments as per RBI guidelines.
    2. For the time being you can use manual payments for your usage and you can add an extra amount for future use.
    3. Try with any local reseller who can accept more forms of payments or who can help you with invoiced billing. You can find resellers on Google partners page.

    From October 1st 2022 Google can no longer save your card details in the current format as per RBI guidelines.