How to Create a Sale in the Google Play Console

Updated on 19. January 2026 by Jan Bunk

An app price dropping to free for a seven-day testing sale.

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We need to make sure that your app testers can download your app to test it. To allow that, we need to create a sale to temporarily offer the app for free for the app testers.

Begin by opening the "Sales" page in the Google Play Console.

If you see the message "Your app is available for free on Google Play, and can't be changed to paid", you can scroll to the bottom of this guide and click the button to mark this guide as completed.

Click "Create sale" at the top right.

A screenshot of the Google Play Console app pricing page.

Name the sale "For Testing".

Make the sale start tomorrow and last 7 days.

Click "Edit sale price" and set the price to 0.

A screenshot of the filled out form for creating a sale.

Click "Apply prices" and then "Save" at the bottom right.

A screenshot with the save button highlighted in the bottom right corner.

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Author Jan Bunk
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Jan Bunk

With a background in computer science, Jan founded webtoapp.design in 2019 and developed the underlying software to convert websites into apps. With experience and feedback gathered from hundreds of published apps, he strives to write easy to follow guides that help you with everything related to app creation, publishing and maintenance.