The Mountain View company has in the Google Play Store applications and games both free and paid. And it offers us a multitude of payment methods, but it is also Google Opinion Rewards for get 'free money' responding to surveys. But did you know that this free credit has an expiration period? If you do not spend it before it disappears and now, fortunately, Google will notify us before that happens.
Google Opinion Rewards is an application from Mountain View's own company that consists of a simple survey system. These surveys are launched based on our habits -at all levels- automatically help Google improve its products and services, and we are a credit that we can spend in the official Android application store. It is a way of being able to access payment software without having to pay with real money for it, but as we advanced it has a expiration period after which the credit simply disappears.
If your 'free money' from the Play Store is going to expire, Google will notify you before
Users have been having a 'trouble' with Google Opinion Rewards. And it is that, although the Mountain View firm warns in its documentation that the credit has a term of expiration de one year from the date it was obtained, there is no countdown or something similar. So users have been finding that, when the date arrives, without prior notice or notification of any kind, the credit automatically disappears and is no longer available to spend on the Google Play Store.
Right now in the app you can read an alert for all these users, with access to the help documentation. And we have already been able to know, thanks to all this, that Google is working on the implementation of a alert system who will take care of solving the problem. When a certain amount of our credit obtained with the app is about to expire, we will receive a notification alerting us about it. Thus, if we want, we can spend the credit before it disappears.
At this time, in the Google Play Store, within the payment methods, we can see the balance remaining corresponding to this credit -that is, what is available to spend- and also the expiration date of the amount in question that, indeed, is close to reaching the expiration date. However, this information is not very accessible. The notification solution, which is coming soon, is much more convenient for users.