Developer Terms of Service

Effective Date: August 3, 2026 · Version 1.0

UseThatApp.com is owned and operated by Centric Engineers, a California Partnership ("Centric Engineers", "UseThatApp", "Platform", "we", "us", or "our"). These Developer Terms of Service ("Developer Terms") govern listing and selling applications on the Platform. By accepting these Developer Terms, publishing an App, or receiving a payout, you ("Developer", "you", or "your") agree to them in addition to our Terms & Conditions, Privacy Policy, and Refund Policy.

The Developer Tax Collection & Remittance Acknowledgment Agreement forms part of, and is incorporated into, these Developer Terms. Where that agreement and these Developer Terms conflict on a tax matter, that agreement controls.

Where these Developer Terms conflict with our general Terms & Conditions, Disclaimer, or any other general document on a matter concerning your App, your listing content, or your rights and obligations as a Developer, these Developer Terms control. In particular, the licence you grant us over your App and listing content is the one in section 3 below, not any broader grant in a general document.

1. Definitions

App — an application, digital service, or subscription you list for sale on the Platform.
Subscriber — an end user who purchases access to an App.
Platform Transaction — any purchase, renewal, or other payment processed through UseThatApp checkout.
Platform Fee — the amount we retain from a Platform Transaction, described in section 8.

2. Eligibility and your account

You must hold a UseThatApp account in good standing and provide accurate registration and business information.
If you accept these Developer Terms for a company, you represent that you are authorized to bind it.
You must complete Stripe onboarding, including identity verification, before you can receive payouts. You may list an App before onboarding is complete, but funds are only released to a verified account.

3. The licence you grant us

You retain all ownership of your App. You grant UseThatApp a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free licence, for as long as your App is listed, to:

host, reproduce, display, and distribute your App and its listing content to Subscribers;
sell access to your App as merchant of record, and issue receipts and invoices in our own name;
use your App's name, icon, screenshots, and description to market the App and the Platform, including in search results, category pages, email, and advertising.

This licence ends when your App is delisted, except that we may retain and display records of completed transactions, and may continue serving existing Subscribers as described in section 13.

4. What you promise about your App

You represent and warrant, for as long as your App is listed, that:

you own your App or have all rights necessary to license and sell it as described here;
your App and its listing content do not infringe any third party's intellectual property, privacy, or other rights;
your App contains no malware, spyware, undisclosed data collection, or hidden functionality;
your App and your use of the Platform comply with applicable law, including export control and sanctions law;
your listing accurately describes what the App does, and you will not materially reduce its advertised functionality without notice to affected Subscribers.

5. Listing accuracy and pricing

You set your own prices. Prices are denominated in US dollars.
Wherever you display a price for an App — on the Platform, on your own website, or anywhere else — that price must match the price currently configured on the Platform for that App, or be retrieved programmatically from our pricing API so it cannot drift.
Prices you display are exclusive of taxes. Taxes are calculated and added at checkout and are never part of the Platform Fee.
You may change prices at any time. Price changes apply to new purchases; existing subscriptions change only as permitted by the Platform's subscription handling and applicable law.
If you publish an App-specific refund policy that differs from the Refund Policy, you must disclose it clearly on your App listing or checkout page before purchase.

6. Selling from your own website

You are expressly permitted, and encouraged, to market and sell your App away from usethatapp.com. You may:

publish UseThatApp purchase links ("buy links") on your own website, documentation, email, or advertising;
present your App as your own product, under your own brand, on your own domain;
use the public REST API and SDKs to build your own listing, pricing, and entitlement-checking surfaces.

You remain responsible for everything you publish off-Platform, including its accuracy and its compliance with advertising and consumer law.

7. UseThatApp checkout is the only purchase path

Every Platform Transaction must complete through UseThatApp checkout. For any App listed on the Platform, you must not:

collect payment for that App directly, or through any other payment processor or marketplace;
direct a Subscriber away from UseThatApp checkout in order to complete a purchase, or offer an alternative purchase path at a different price;
grant paid access to that App other than through an entitlement issued by the Platform, except for genuine free trials, evaluation access, and complimentary grants you make at no charge.

This is what allows us to act as merchant of record, calculate and remit tax, and stand behind the transaction for the Subscriber. It is a material term: breach is grounds for immediate suspension under section 12.

Nothing here restricts you from selling the same software outside the Platform under a separate listing and your own payment arrangements, provided you do not use Platform entitlements, buy links, or Platform checkout to do so.

8. Platform Fee

We retain a Platform Fee from each Platform Transaction. The current rate is 10% + $0.50 per transaction for United States buyers, and 14% + $0.50 for buyers billed outside the United States, which covers cross-border card, currency conversion, and tax calculation costs we are charged.

The Platform Fee is calculated on the transaction amount excluding taxes. Taxes collected from Subscribers are never part of the Platform Fee and are never paid to you.
There are no listing fees, monthly minimums, or payout fees. Free Apps cost nothing to list.
We may change the Platform Fee prospectively on notice. A change never applies retroactively to transactions already completed.

Rates shown above are read live from the Platform's current fee configuration, so this page cannot quote a rate different from the one actually charged.

9. Merchant of record and taxes

UseThatApp acts as merchant of record for Platform Transactions. We determine, collect, and remit applicable transactional and indirect taxes (sales tax, VAT, GST and similar), and you must not separately invoice Subscribers for those taxes or represent yourself as merchant of record for a Platform Transaction. You remain responsible for your own income, business, and payroll taxes. The Developer Tax Collection & Remittance Acknowledgment Agreement sets this out in full and is incorporated into these Developer Terms.

10. Payouts

Your share of each Platform Transaction — the transaction amount, less taxes and less the Platform Fee — is transferred to your connected Stripe account.
Payouts are made through Stripe on a rolling basis and typically arrive within 2–7 business days, subject to Stripe's payout schedule and any holds Stripe applies to your account.
We may withhold or delay a payout where we reasonably suspect fraud, where a dispute is open, where required by law, or where your account is under review under section 12. We will tell you when we do.
Amounts owed to us — including reversed fees, refunded amounts, and chargebacks — may be offset against current or future payouts.

11. Refunds, disputes, and chargebacks

The Refund Policy applies to your App unless you have published a conflicting App-specific policy, in which case yours controls for that App.
When a Platform Transaction is refunded in whole or in part, your corresponding share is reversed proportionally, and the Platform Fee on the refunded amount is reversed with it.
As merchant of record we decide how to respond to chargebacks and card network disputes. If a dispute is lost, the disputed amount and any fee charged by the card network or Stripe may be recovered from your balance.
We may issue a refund without your agreement where the Refund Policy, applicable consumer law, payment network rules, or our payment processor requires it.

12. Your relationship with Subscribers, and support

You are solely responsible for developing, operating, maintaining, and supporting your App. We do not support your App's functionality and make no promise to Subscribers that we will.
We handle billing enquiries, receipts, and refund processing, because we are merchant of record. We may contact your Subscribers about their purchase, their entitlement, and service changes.
You must not use Subscriber data obtained through the Platform for any purpose other than providing and supporting your App to that Subscriber, and you must handle it in accordance with our Privacy Policy and applicable data protection law.

13. Suspension, termination, and your Subscribers

You may delist an App or close your seller account at any time.
We may suspend or remove an App, or suspend your seller account, if we reasonably believe you have breached these Developer Terms, if your App is unlawful or harmful, if we receive a valid infringement notice, or if required by law or our payment processor. Where practical we will give notice and an opportunity to fix the problem first; where the risk is immediate we may act first and tell you straight after.
Existing Subscribers. Delisting an App stops new purchases. Subscriptions already active continue until the end of their current billing period unless we or you cancel them earlier. You must not cut off access that a Subscriber has already paid for. If access does end early, the affected portion may be refunded to the Subscriber and recovered from your balance.
Earned amounts already settled and not subject to refund, dispute, or offset are paid on the normal schedule after termination. Termination for fraud or material breach may forfeit unpaid amounts.
Sections 4, 9, 11, and 14 to 17 survive termination.

14. Prohibited conduct

In addition to the prohibited uses in our Terms & Conditions, you must not:

list an App you do not have the right to sell, or misrepresent its origin, authorship, or functionality;
manipulate reviews, ratings, install counts, or affiliate attribution, including by purchasing your own App to inflate figures;
use the Platform to distribute malware, or to collect Subscriber data beyond what your App discloses;
circumvent the Platform Fee or the checkout requirement in section 7;
interfere with the Platform's operation or security, or access another Developer's data.

15. Disclaimers

The Platform is provided "as is" and "as available". We do not warrant that it will be uninterrupted, error-free, or that listing your App will produce any particular level of sales, visibility, or revenue. We are not a party to the relationship between you and your Subscribers beyond our role as merchant of record.

16. Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, neither party is liable for indirect, incidental, special, punitive, or consequential damages, including lost profits or lost revenue. Our aggregate liability to you for any claim relating to these Developer Terms will not exceed the total Platform Fees we actually retained from your Platform Transactions in the three months before the event giving rise to the claim. Nothing here limits liability that cannot be limited by law.

17. Indemnification

You will defend, indemnify, and hold harmless Centric Engineers and its partners, officers, employees, and agents from third-party claims, damages, and costs (including reasonable legal fees) arising from your App, your listing content, your breach of these Developer Terms, or your violation of law or of a third party's rights. This is in addition to the narrower tax indemnity in the Developer Tax Agreement.

18. Changes to these Developer Terms

We may update these Developer Terms. Material changes take effect on the effective date of the updated version shown at the top of this page, and we will ask you to accept them again where the change is significant. Continued listing or selling after the effective date constitutes acceptance, to the extent permitted by law. Changes never apply retroactively to transactions already completed.

19. Governing law

These Developer Terms are governed by the laws of the State of California, United States, without regard to conflict-of-law rules. Exclusive venue for disputes is the state or federal courts located in California, unless mandatory law requires otherwise.

20. Electronic acceptance

By checking the acceptance box, publishing an App, or receiving a payout, you confirm that you have read and agree to these Developer Terms and that this agreement is legally binding and enforceable. We record the version you accepted and the date you accepted it.

21. Contact

Centric Engineers, a California Partnership
3322 Dawn Marie Drive, Alpine, CA 91901
Questions about these Developer Terms: support@usethatapp.com