American tech giant Google has announced that it will allow Swedish music company Spotify to use its payment system in its Android app with the launch of a pilot program to explore user billing choices in some countries.

According to Google, it will allow a small number of participating developers to offer an additional third-party billing option in their apps next to Google Play’s billing system.

Recently, Google said that it has also launched a similar system in South Korea, The Hindu reported.

The partnership with Spotify is the inaugural user choice billing partner, users who have installed Spotify from the Google Play store can use Spotify’s payment system or Google Play billing to pay.

Google said in a statement, “This pilot will help us to increase our understanding of whether and how user choice billing works for users in different countries and developers of different sizes and categories.”

Spotify said in a blogpost said, “The companies will test and learn, jointly exploring product innovations across the Android platform. We anticipate launching the first iteration of User Choice Billing later this year.”