Can I switch a Google Play country without adding payment method?

Question

Here's the deal. I need to check if our Platform supports payments over 1000000 currency via Google Play Store.

When I try to change the country in Account settings, Google asks for that country's payment method (Credit card). I don't have access to Vietnamese test cards and the ones from card generator don't work (obviously). Any ideas on how I can skip adding a payment method? The account is used only for Sandbox testing purposes.

Savoury

support.google.com/googleplay/forum/AAAA8CVOtD88MJNwwTRo94/… maybe this helps – Aloysia

Thank you! That indeed helped. I had to create another Payment user through payments.google.com with fake Vietnamese card. The user got created, but without payment card. Which is enough for me, cause I was able to make test payments with new Vietnamese Payment User. – Savoury

Posted it as an answer for future Users with the same Question – Aloysia

Answer 1

Check out this Page from the Google Play Support Page if you encounter a similar Problem.

Also, you can't change the country for an existing payments profile. Hence, you need to create a new payments profile to add/associate it with a new/another country:

1. Sign in to Settings.

2. Under Payments profile, click the pencil icon next to Country.

3. Click the link to Create new profile from the message that appears.

4. Click Continue from the next message that appears.

5. From the drop-down list, choose the country to associate with the payments profile you're creating.

6. Enter the address information and click Submit.

After that you'll be seeing an option "Close" at the bottom part of the selection where you need to close the payments account under your previous location.`

Aloysia

The ONLY answer that really works after spending days if not weeks finding a solution to this problem. – Fenelia

It is 2021 and this is still the ONLY answer I got that works. Upvoted. – Lissy

The linked page for payments settings profile no longer has a pencil icon or the word "country" anywhere on it. The only button says "Add a payment method". – Whitmire

Don't be evil my a*s. As @Whitmire mentioned at some point they have changed this and now the only thing you can do is "Add a payment method". What worked for me was to just add dummy info. It doesn't even have to be a real card, as long as validation passes you will be able to proceed to the steps described here. – Bedaub

Answer 2

April 2024: I went through the wizard and added a test credit card (I changed to Australia, so I googled 'australian test credit card numbers'). I used this link https://quickstream.westpac.com.au/docs/general/test-account-numbers.

• open Google Play and navigate to "Country and profiles" (I followed the steps here: https://support.google.com/googleplay/answer/7431675?hl=en)
• choose 'add credit card'
• enter the test credit card info / name / post code
• submit
• dismiss the product disclosure statement
• card validation obviously fails
• close and go back to "Country and profiles" (see step 1)
• I could then choose "Australia" even though I did not finish adding the card due to the validation error

Courson