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Bulk pricing, without the bulk work. Edit Google Play regional prices across every country from one review-before-apply workflow. Play Console gives you two options for pricing a product in 150 countries: set one price everywhere, or edit them one at a time. Neither is what you want. Pinto is the third option. It opens beside the prices you were already looking at, works out the new price for every market you selected, shows you the whole change before anything is written, and then writes it — through the Google Play Developer API, as you. PRICE BY ECONOMIC ZONE, IN ONE CLICK This is the thing Play Console cannot do, and the reason Pinto exists. A single price cannot be right in both Norway and Nigeria. Pinto groups every supported country into five purchasing-power bands and builds a ladder from your base market's price: - Pick how steep it is: flat, gentle, balanced or aggressive. - Every band is a share of your base price, and every share is editable. - Every country stays editable too — move one between bands, or override its price outright. - Nothing is applied until you have reviewed it. The bands are built from World Bank income groups and GNI per capita at purchasing power parity, adjusted for observed app-store spend. Pinto states that basis in the interface rather than presenting the ladder as a fact. It is a defensible starting point, not a measurement, and it is meant to be edited. EVERY WAY TO SET A PRICE - Percentage — raise or lower by a percentage. - Multiplier — multiply the current price. - Fixed price — one amount, converted into each market's currency. - Copy from market — take one country's price as the reference for the rest. - Tiers — bands you define, or the purchasing-power ladder above. - Formula — a written expression over the current price, parsed properly. No eval, no surprises. Currency conversion uses Google's own conversion rates, requested from the Play API for your product. That matters more than it sounds: deriving rates from a product's existing prices makes every re-run compound the last one, so prices drift a little further every time you apply. Pinto's results are idempotent — applying the same ladder twice changes nothing the second time. ROUNDING THAT LOOKS LIKE PRICING - Charm endings — .99, .95, .90, .49. - Your own endings — give it the list you use. - Whole units. - None. Rounding respects each currency's real minor-unit granularity, so a JPY price never comes out with decimals it cannot have. CHOOSING THE MARKETS Select by search, by continent, by sub-region, by currency, or one country at a time. Save any selection as a named group and reuse it anywhere — geography is a poor proxy for what a price should be, and France and Romania share a continent and very little else. NOTHING IS WRITTEN UNTIL YOU SAY SO The Review screen splits your change into four groups: changing, warnings, blocked, unchanged. Every row shows the old price, the new price and the difference. Warnings name themselves — a change of more than 50%, a currency Pinto has no decimal rule for. Blocked rows are never sent, and each one says why. The review screen renders the exact values the apply engine sends. There is no second code path where the numbers could differ from what you approved. There is also a dry run: record the operation in history without sending anything to Google Play. WHEN GOOGLE REJECTS SOMETHING The Play API writes a product's prices all or nothing, so one bad country fails the whole batch and the error does not say which country. Pinto binary- searches the rejected batch to name the failing markets, applies the rest, and then reads the prices back from Google to confirm what actually landed — rather than reporting success because the request returned. You get a per-country result: what was written, what was refused, and the reason. UNDO Prices are captured immediately before every write. If a run goes wrong, restore them exactly as they were — from the snapshot, not from a guess. History keeps the last 50 operations locally, each with its snapshot. PRESETS, HISTORY, CSV - Save a strategy as a preset, export it, import it, share it with a colleague. - Export any change set to CSV before applying it, for the spreadsheet someone will inevitably ask for. - History records every operation with its per-country outcome. LEARN IT IN THE APP A Guide tab walks through the workflow, the strategies, the safety rails and the error messages Google actually returns. Available in English and French, along with the rest of the interface. PRIVACY Pinto has no server. There is no Pinto backend, no analytics, no telemetry and no third-party service. Your data goes from your browser to Google and nowhere else. The developer receives nothing — there is no endpoint to receive it. - The OAuth access token is held in session memory and erased when Chrome closes. - Pinto never requests and never stores a refresh token. - Presets, history, groups and settings are stored locally in your browser. - The operation log records region codes, product ids and API status codes. It does not record prices. Removing the extension deletes everything Pinto stored. Full policy: https://github.com/gabriel-TheCode/pinto/blob/main/PRIVACY.md WHAT YOU NEED BEFORE INSTALLING Read this part before you install, because Pinto will not work without it. 1. A Play Console account with permission to edit prices. 2. The Google Play Android Developer API enabled for the Google Cloud project linked to your Play Console. 3. Your own OAuth client ID, created in that Google Cloud project and pasted into Pinto's settings once. The third step is the awkward one, and it is deliberate. Pinto has no server, so it cannot hold a shared client ID on your behalf; using your own also means the API access is yours, scoped to your own console, and revocable by you at myaccount.google.com/permissions. The in-app guide walks through all three. It takes about five minutes, once. PERMISSIONS, AND WHY - storage — saves your presets, history with price snapshots for undo, custom groups and settings, locally in your browser. - identity — runs the Google sign-in flow. - play.google.com/console — shows Pinto's panel on Play Console pages and reads the current route to work out which product you are looking at. - androidpublisher.googleapis.com — the Google Play Developer API, where prices are read and written. - openidconnect.googleapis.com — reads your name, email and avatar after sign-in, to show which account is connected. There is no broad host permission, no tabs permission, and no remotely hosted code. BUILT ON THE API, NOT ON THE PAGE Pinto reads and writes through the Google Play Developer API. It does not type into Play Console's interface and does not scrape prices out of the page. That distinction is the whole design. Automating Play Console's DOM is quick to build and breaks the week Google reshuffles a table — and when it breaks in a pricing tool, it breaks quietly and expensively. Pinto uses the page for one thing only: working out which product you are looking at. A Play Console redesign costs it nothing. WHAT PINTO DOES NOT DO - It does not edit offer prices or prepaid plans. It writes base-plan and one-time-product prices; offers are passed through untouched. - It applies one strategy to one product at a time. - It cannot make a country available. The country list is a naming and grouping aid; whether Google sells in a market is Google's answer, and Pinto reports it rather than asserting it. - It does not change prices for existing subscribers. New prices apply to new subscribers; changing an existing subscriber's price is a Play Console price change, with its own notice and consent rules. OPEN SOURCE Pinto is MIT licensed. The pricing logic, the safety rails and the privacy claims above can all be read, and the whole extension can be built from source.