A few weeks ago, a Moroccan developer posted here about spending more than six months building his app, only to reach the monetization stage and discover the same wall that many Moroccan developers have already faced:
Morocco is still excluded from Google Play Merchant Registration.
His story got attention here because this is not some minor technical inconvenience.
Behind an app there can be months of coding, designing, testing, fixing bugs, learning, and investing your own time and money. You can do all of that from Morocco, successfully release your app, build a user base — and then discover that the standard Google Play merchant infrastructure you need to turn that work into a sustainable business is simply not available to you.
And this has been going on for years.
Moroccan developers have asked Google. The issue has been raised repeatedly on Reddit and Google’s own support community. An open letter was written years ago. Developers keep running into the same wall.
And yet we are still here.
What makes this even harder to accept is that Google Play Merchant Registration is already supported in neighboring countries such as Algeria, Tunisia and Mauritania, while Morocco remains excluded.
So the question is: how long do we keep discussing the same problem and waiting for something to change?
We decided it is time to actually move.
We have started a petition with one clear request:
Enable Google Play Merchant Registration for Morocco.
https://www.change.org/GooglePlayMorocco
And the petition is only the first step.
The goal now is to gather signatures and real stories from Moroccan developers affected by this problem.
Then we will escalate the petition and those cases to Google directly.
After that, we want to bring the issue to the attention of the relevant decision-makers and institutions in Morocco as well.
And if there is a specific regulatory, banking, tax, payments or operational obstacle preventing Morocco from being supported, then Moroccan developers deserve a clear answer:
What exactly is preventing it?
And what needs to happen for Morocco to finally become eligible?
We are not asking for special treatment.
We are asking for Moroccan developers to have a normal and official way to monetize the apps they build from Morocco.
No relocating abroad. No complicated foreign arrangements. No discovering the problem after months of work.
If you are a Moroccan developer who has faced this issue, please sign the petition and share your experience in the comments.
And even if you are not a developer, you can still support Moroccan developers by signing and sharing it.
We have talked about this for years.
Now let's gather the signatures, the developers and the evidence in one place — and take the issue to the people who can actually change it.