Alphabet will provide Match Group consumers a choice of payment solutions for a limited time.

Tinder-owner Match says Google to allow alternate payment systems for now

On Friday, Match Group Inc announced that Alphabet Inc’s Google will temporarily allow the dating app developer; to give customers a variety of payment options.

Match filed a lawsuit against Google in May; calling it a “last resort” to keep Tinder and its other applications off the Google Play store for refusing to contribute up to 30% of sales.

The trial is presently scheduled for April 2023.

On Friday, Match said that it has dropped its request for a temporary restraining order against Google; after the latter agreed to a number of concessions that would prevent Match’s apps from being deleted from the Google Play store for accepting alternate payment methods.

According to the lawsuit, Google had said that it would restrict downloads of some of Match’s apps by June 1;  unless they only offered Google’s payment method and split revenue.

The majority of Tinder users prefer Match’s payment mechanism; which allows for instalment plans, bank transfers, and other services not offered by Google.