Zoom Meeting SDK Pricing, and free usage

Meeting SDK
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Hi, I’m integrating Zoom Meeting SDK.

Our app flow is as follows:

  • Admin creates a meeting on Sign In | Zoom. They share the Meeting url, meeting number, and password to our own Backend through a web app.
  • Users from mobile app join the meeting using the meeting id, password & jwt token. The JWT token is generated by our backend.

Question:

  • I haven’t bought any paid plan. Can I keep using the free plan without any issue if all I want is for my users to join the meeting?
  • Do I need to publish the app to zoom market place if I intend to submit my mobile app to playstore and appstore?

Thank you.

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Hi @Tayyabul
Thanks for reaching out to us!
If you want external users to join your meetings, you will need to publish your app in the Zoom app marketplace. And yes, you can use a free plan if you are only hosting meetings

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Hi Elisa, thank you for your response.

If you want external users to join your meetings,

Which users are categorized as ‘external’?

According to Meeting SDK Policy

Under a new policy all Meeting SDK apps are required to go through app review to access meetings outside of the developer account used to create it.

In my case users will only join meetings that were created from my own developer account.

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Hey @Tayyabul
What I mean is users do not belong to your account.
If the meetings you create, will be joined by users that belong to your account, you won’t need to publish the app

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Hi @elisa.zoom , thank you for your response

I want to understand this a little more.

What I mean is users do not belong to your account.
If the meetings you create, will be joined by users that belong to your account, you won’t need to publish the app

It says here that:

Zoom’s API License and Terms of Use prohibit your app from joining meetings outside of your developer account, unless it has been reviewed by Zoom

Doesn’t this mean that if my “app” joins a meeting that’s created by the account to which SDK keys belong, then I don’t need to publish the app, regardless if the “user” joining the meeting from my “app” is part of my account or not.

Furthermore, the users joining the meeting from my “app” don’t need to sign in with an account.

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Hey @Tayyabul
Yes, your app can join meetings created by the account to which SDK credentials belong, and you do not need to publish the app if that’s going to be your use case.

About this:

Doesn’t this mean that if my “app” joins a meeting that’s created by the account to which SDK keys belong, then I don’t need to publish the app, regardless if the “user” joining the meeting from my “app” is part of my account or not.

Furthermore, the users joining the meeting from my “app” don’t need to sign in with an account.

Yes, that is correct

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