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If I develop and app for a non-tech company for whom it will be an effort (i.e. non-IT people) to get their own Apple iOS developer ID, can I upload it myself under my company ID?
The reason I ask is that it appears to be the norm among other similar companies doing apps for other companies. (At least in the segment/niche I am planning on entering)
In appstore they list: "Developer dev-company Copyright for-company and the app is associated to their account.
I would love if the companies I intend/hope to develop custom apps for would get their own account, but I can just already now see it being at least a small obstacle for some who want "hands off".
What do you do?
You can upload it yourself with your own company name.
You will be the one signing contracts with Apple, and you will be the one legally responsible for the apps.
Your name will be listed in the App Store as the developer.
You can put whatever you want in the copyright notice.
You can use whatever you want for the app name and description, so if you are developing the "Foobar" app for "XYZ Corporation", you can call it "XYZ Foobar" and in the app description you can say it is the official Foobar app for XYZ Corporation. (This assumes that XYZ Corporation has given you permission to use its trademarks.)
If it is a for-pay app, you will receive the payments.
If the other company eventually joins the Developer Program, you can transfer the app to them. (Note: This is a new feature. It wasn't possible until recently.)
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I need to develop an application for a Client who later wish to install this app, customize iPad wallpaper and some other stuff to suit to business needs and send it to his Customers.
The tricky part is I can not suggest him to distribute this application via Adhoc Distribution (Using Normal 100 device limitation account) as He says apple itself is one of their potential customers.
Enterprise Distribution isn't required for reasons that His company does not entitles for this developer program.
Now my question is If I go for B2B distribution model - The end user are essentially not the one who will download the application rather my client himself will do that and give them preinstalled application on iPad.
What options do I have here ? Any help suggestion will be appreciated. I have already gone through the various volume Purchase programs documentation but I could not figure out if B2B distribution exactly matches my requirement or not.
So, let's see if I'm understanding this:
You are making an app for someone else. We'll call you the 'developer'.
Your customer is paying you to build that app. We'll call them the 'publisher'.
The publisher will not be selling to the public, they will instead be installing the app on devices, configuring them and then selling the entire solution (i.e. device and pre-installed app) to their customers (we'll call them 'end users').
Yes? And since one of the publisher's potential end users is Apple, you have a heightened sense of compliance with the rules (which you should be doing anyway).
So in this case, the publisher distributes the app via the B2B model and makes themselves the party it is allowed to be sold to, restricting the availability to those devices. This will require the publisher to create an Apple ID to manage their VPP participation.
Now, that's assuming the end users aren't going to be using these iPads for other functions. If they are, then you'd need to allow those users direct access and perhaps re-figure the business model a bit. That would also allow the end-users to re-install the app if they needed to, etc...
This PDF described the process in more detail: http://images.apple.com/business/docs/vpp_business_guide_en_20130413.pdf
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My App is rejected by the reason :
"We found your app inappropriately unlocks or enables additional functionality with mechanisms other than the App Store, which is not in compliance with the App Store Review Guidelines"
"It may be appropriate to revise your app to use the In App Purchase API to provide content purchasing functionality. "
What I have done is as below:
As this app is for my specific customer companies to use, I only want the companies who get the Invitation Code from me to use my app. There is no charge. I don not know is it necessary to use the In App Purchase API instead? if it is true , can you give me some tips?
Your application cannot be used by members of the general public, and thus does not belong in the App Store.
If you only intend your application to be made available to a few specific people, you should use Ad-Hoc Distribution to make it available to them.
Explain the purpose to the review team, sometimes they listen.
Also, maybe have that message as a "login page" instead. Have a username and password rather than a verification code. The verification code message may look more like you are selling the app behind the AppStore. Also provide the review team with an access code / login details if you haven't already so they can actually review the app.
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I developed an app for the company who sells professional e-books by their website. In order to keep the content in sync with web data, app enforce login/registration and without that doesn't provide any functionality.
This is the reason why it has been rejected for Review Guidelines 17.2 Apps that require users to share personal information, such as email address and date of birth, in order to function will be rejected
My question is: is there a way to convince Apple to accept an app?
It is directed to the very specific proffessionals.
In the future the company want to add the possibility to sync books available on their website.
Also the books bought by in app purchase would be available on their website for the user account.
Isn't that enough reasons for Apple to accept this app? My client strongly want to have an account based app, the whole system was designed for that.
There is possibility to track user by udid but still it is not good solution because it is deprecated and Apple rejects apps using UDID for tracking reasons.
Does anyone have similar situation recently?
You say:
"app enforces login/registration and without that doesn't provide any
functionality."
Apple says:
"Apps that require users to share personal information in order to
function will be rejected"
So the answer is kinda obvious.
The app should provide (at least) some basic functionality without sharing personal data.
Maybe some book previews? 1 or 2 free books? App info? Why not apple's-bookstore? Does the website (before seeing anything) force you to signup too? Otherwise just make a web-app.
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we are developing iOS apps for several clients.
Not all of them have registered in the apple development program.
is it at all possible for us to publish the app using our account, but have their name and contact information display in the appstore.
No, thats not possible besides custom support and web URLs. But if your client is serious, they should be able to afford the $99 for the account. Are you sure that want to do this anyway? Its your account after all, so you show up with the App and all of its reputation and reviews etc. I wouldn't want to have my clients apps in my normal dev account.
Your company would be listed as publisher. But you will be able to put their URLs and support information and anything in the description area.
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I'm developing an app which I will duplicate to many clients. Each client will have one app on Apple Store.
For each version (each client) of this application do I need to create a new app_id/provisioning or can I use the same app_id/provisioning?
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Yes, you will need a different App ID for each application.
If you use a wildcard then you don't need to have a different app ID and provisioning profile. That is unless you want to use push notifications for example in which case you will need a specific app ID for each app.
That's assuming you're releasing the apps under a single developer account, of course. Multiple developer accounts then obviously you would need multiple app IDs and provisioning profiles.
It depends on what your app does, and what your future plans for the app are.
If you don't do push notifications AND don't use iCloud you can use a wild card as opposed to an app iD for each app.
Having an app ID & provisioning profile per app is cheap (as in no money).
Having a developer account per app would cost money, but if you ever want to sell an app (and the app's user base) independently of your other applications you will need to do that. Otherwise you will either sever the code from the user base when you sell it, or forever have to take code from the buyer and submit it to Apple on their behalf.