Google just charged me for my in-app Test purchase, What do I do?

Question

My app is in alpha mode but published. I can see this in developer console "Only alpha and beta testers can see the listing in Google Play, since you have not yet uploaded any APKs to prod."

But when I tested a in-app purchase with a different test account, My credit card was charged.

First how do I get My money back. Second how test in-app properly, without been charged.

Tharks

Answer 1

This happened to me as well. This is because the documentation says :

It’s easy to set up test purchases—any user account can be chosen to be a test account, and any user of a test account can make test purchases with any available payment method (even though there’s no charge to the payment method).

But I missed this part :

Next, create license test accounts for authorized users. In the Developer Console, go to Settings > Account details, then in the License Testing section, add the addresses to Gmail accounts with testing access field.

So having a test account that opted-in to the alpha release isn't enough, you need to add the same email address to the licensing section.

If you don't see this message, you will be charged :

Answer 2

For First how do I get My money back, you can also go into the Play Console, Order Management, and issue your test user a refund.

Then be sure to add the test user(s) to the list of license testers as in @z0me's answer to prevent it happening again.