This may be a silly question, but I can't seem to find a direct answer on Zoom's developer site. If I am developing and integrating an application for clients to allow them to schedule and manage webinars as a part of my regular (web based) business software offering, and then provide/distribute that application to my client for them to use, will the charges (from Zoom) for meetings and meeting time be made to THEIR Zoom account or to MY Zoom account? And is there a way for me to specify or configure whose account is billed for such time? Or is it all keyed to my own SDK key?
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I created a free service that permits to control a French set-top box (which provides different services like TV, playing media, Netflix, …).
This set-top is a 3rd party product for me because I do not own the material, but because the constructor provides an API I've been able to create a service from end-to-end that controls the box. The box provider doesn't have any service published on Google to control their box and they do not plan to do it in the future.
I tested everything with my own Google Home account and everything is working fine. I'd now like to deploy/publish my service to all my users in Google Home… While I'm filling all the steps to publish my project, it's asking me to complete a form (Smart Home Certification form), but at the top of the form it says: “if your action is non-commercial (personal/hobby project) or you are implementing only the SCENE trait, do not submit the form.”
My action is non-commercial (it's a free service) and I'm maintaining it on my personal time (hobby project), so I'm not supposed to submit the form. But if I don't, then I cannot have my service published/deployed?!
Is it possible to publish a Smart Home Action without being a company that sells products/pays a developer to maintain the service?
For your information, I already published an Alexa Skill for this service 1 year ago and it works very well. I was waiting for Google to publish the Channel trait in French to release it. Right now I have to ask my users to create applets in IFTTT to make the service works with Google, which is not optimal and very painful…
I tried to reach to the ha-certification Google team but no answer after 2 weeks… So maybe someone in the community would already have experimented the same case as me!
Thanks
After sending emails around, I finally got an answer from a Google employee:
due to our new policies, we are now not launching any partners who are not tied to commercial products
I am using Microsoft Bing Maps for my mobile app project. The API which I am using is REST-Imagery Metadata. It shows on my account that it is billable after 25 hits. 490 hits have already occured. If the API is billable, how the billing is happening and what is the criteria for payment? Someone please clarify in detail.
It's buried in the Terms of Service - but you still get a certain number of "billable" transactions for free provided you're making a mobile-app, even a commercial app, if it's available for a non-Microsoft mobile device platform (i.e. Android and iOS). I imagine because it's free advertising for Bing Maps when users would otherwise be using rivals Google Maps or Apple Maps respectively.
Source: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/maps/product
(c) Limited website and mobile app use.
If you are using the Services in an Application for commercial, non-commercial (except for Education or Non-profit use) or government use under these TOU, without entering into Standard Terms, then your Application must be available on a website or a mobile app running in a non-Microsoft Windows operating system, and must not exceed (i) 125,000 cumulative Billable Transactions (which will be free of charge) as defined in the Documentation, per calendar year or (ii) 5 queries per second, calculated as the sum of client-side and server-side queries. If your use will exceed these limits, please contact us to license additional transactions
It looks like Microsoft will deactivate your account or block further requests once you hit that limit of 125,000 transactions/year and then you'll have to register for paid access and provide payment method details.
If you are using a basic Bing maps dev account than you will get 125k free transactions per year. Those billable transaction in usage report will be billed from your free limits. You don't have to pay anything until you exhaust the free limits. I found the below text from the Bing maps documentation.
"Only billable transactions count towards the free-use limits for Basic keys, and Enterprise keys are only charged for billable transactions. Non-billable transactions do not incur charges and do not count towards free-use limits. To determine if your application will qualify for free use and for info about licensing and transaction limits, please see the Bing Maps licensing page and review the Bing Maps Terms of Use."
-Bing maps dev center
I am trying to connect my WhatsApp Business Account with Facebook so that it shows my business name. As per https://www.facebook.com/business/help/2087193751603668?helpref=faq_content there shall be an option for WhatsApp Account in business.facebook.com under 'Business Settings' > Accounts. But it is not there. It also says:
If the WhatsApp accounts option is not visible, the Business API may
not be available to you yet.
So can anyone guide how to get Business API access?
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/whatsapp/faq#faq_1807206352701689:
How do I get the WhatsApp Business API?
In order to ensure a high quality experience for businesses and users, we're in a limited public preview. If you'd like to work with us, submit more information about your business for consideration as we continue to expand our availability, or reach out to your Facebook representative if you already have one.
If you have such a representative available, reach out to them; otherwise, you will simply have to wait until this becomes available to everyone.
I have two-step authentication on facebook. I just tried to log in from my home PC but didn't write second step code.
I've got notification that somebody (me) was trying to login to my account and location was so precise (within 2 meters).
I wondered how facebook detects location so precisely only based on IP?
Today geolocation is in the core business of Marketing companies, there's a very developped market of customer data, so tons of mobile apps and services collect data such as usual IP addresses, personal information, interests, locations.
That information gets reselled to data brokers, aggregated, corrected. And then Facebook or others can buy that data, merge it, implement corrections and so and get tables for matching IPs and locations that are not public, it seems.
However they offer a high level API to perform market targeting which seems to use that data:
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/marketing-api/buying-api/targeting#location
In your case it was precise because they may have a good dataset based on your privacy settings experience, not only with facebook but with other geo-located apps. In my case their guess is wrong by hundreds of Km, because I was behind a corporate proxy.
What is google apps and why are so many startup companies using it?
Google Apps is a collection of business software components delivered as a service, saving you from having to install Exchange, Office and the usual business stuff. Plus Google Apps allows people to write their own apps and install them on Google's servers. A lot of companies use Google Apps for email and calendering instead of Exchange these days. It saves costs.
One useful feature of Google apps is that it allows you to use the gmail interface to host email on google's servers for your own domain. So you can send/recieve email with an #example.com address (if your startup was called example.com).
Unlike many apps, the Google Business Apps are intuitive. Calendars, email, file sharing, contacts, and more are simple to use and will work virtually on any internet connected device.
basic benefits of google apps are -
1. It is Cost Efficient - For only $5 a month, you will receive email addresses for your team with your company's name, 30 GB storage you can use for file storage and sharing, online calendars, and the ability to easily create online spreadsheets, slides, text documents, and more. All these great features including admin controls and security from a name you can trust. If you prepay for a year you will actually save $10.
Security - The company is FISMA-Moderate level certified -- this is the same level of certification for the internal email usage within the United State's government. Google is also capable of supporting HIPAA compliance. Google is trusted by millions to virtually secure their email from any threats through routinely checking emails before downloading a document for any threats of viruses, pshing emails, malware and more.
User friendly and intutive interface.
Google Apps are...
“A set of intelligent apps including Gmail, Docs, Drive, and Calendar to connect the people in your company, no matter where in the world they are.”
Source: https://gsuite.google.com/together/
Examples: Google Calendar, Google Drive, Google Hangouts, Google Slides, Google Spreadsheets - those are all web-based applications ("apps").
G Suite is the name given by Google for their collection of applications. Formerly named “Google Apps for Work” and “Google Apps for Your Domain”, G Suite is resource implemented by I.T. Administrators, to enable access to Google Apps, through a domain (and their aliases).
For Example: Rather than using your standard Gmail address (username#gmail.com), users in a business or organization would login to access those web-apps using an email address with their own domain, like (username#example.com).
The interface is the same as for standard Google Account holders, yet G Suite admins have the ability to add some branding, and control features - through the G Suite Admin Console.
I'm going to stop here before this post starts to resemble a pitch - let's just say that I really enjoy the fact that my workplace has implemented G Suite for our organization - it has made my duties, that much easier!