Google is retiring its Google Wallet for Digital Goods API and is encouraging users to find other solutions. It will be retired on March 2, 2015, and Google has said there will be no replacement product.

The API was intended for selling digital goods via in-browser desktop and mobile Web apps. Google’s move, however, only applies to Web developers accepting payments on their own sites. “It does not affect our other Wallet offerings,” the company said. Services not affected include Instant Buy, the Google Wallet App, in-app payment services like Play In-app Billing, and Google marketplaces like Play Store. “If you don’t have your own payment processing, you will need to transition to an alternate solution and remove calls to our APIs before March 2, 2015.”

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