Enrolling in apple developer programs

Apple Developer Enterprise Program

The Apple Developer Enterprise Program allows large organizations to develop and deploy proprietary, internal-use apps to their employees. This program is for specific use cases that require private distribution directly to employees using secure internal systems or through a Mobile Device Management solution.

Eligibility

The Apple Developer Enterprise Program is only for the internal use and distribution of proprietary apps in specific use cases that are not adequately addressed with public apps on the App Store, custom apps through Apple Business Manager or Ad Hoc distribution, or beta testing through TestFlight. Your proprietary app must be developed by you for use on Apple platforms.

In addition, the following eligibility requirements apply. Your organization must:

• Have 100 or more employees.
• Be a legal entity. We do not accept DBAs, fictitious businesses, trade names, or branches.
• Use the program only to create proprietary, in-house apps for internal use, and to distribute these apps privately and securely to employees within the organization.
• Have systems in place to ensure only employees can download your internal-use apps, and to protect membership credentials and assets.
• Participate in and pass Apple’s verification interview and continuous evaluation process.

Applying

Application

As the person applying to the Apple Developer Enterprise Program on behalf of your organization, you must have the legal authority to bind your organization to legal agreements. You must be the organization’s owner/founder, executive team member, senior project lead, or have legal authority granted to you by a senior employee. To start your application, sign in with your Apple ID with two-factor authentication turned on. If you’re already enrolled in the Apple Developer Program for distributing apps on the App Store, or have an iTunes Connect account for distributing another media type (music, TV, movies, or books), you will need to use a different Apple ID.

Verification

Verification is conducted to authenticate your organization’s information, to validate your intended use of the program, and to ensure that the App Store, Apple Business Manager, Ad Hoc distribution, or TestFlight would not adequately meet your needs. Your organization must have a D-U-N-S Number, which is a unique nine-digit number assigned by Dun & Bradstreet and widely used as a standard business identifier. You can check to see if your organization already has a D-U-N-S Number and request one if necessary. They are free in most jurisdictions. Your organization must also have a publicly available website with a domain name that’s associated with your organization. In addition, we may contact your organization to verify other details and continue to evaluate your use of the program. If you choose to renew your membership, your organization will be verified again. Apple reserves the right to reject your application at its sole discretion.

Agreement and Payment

If your organization is approved for membership in the Apple Developer Enterprise Program, you will receive the enterprise program license agreement for review and acceptance. The Apple Developer Enterprise Program is 299 USD per membership year or in local currency where available.

Getting Started

The Apple Developer Program allows you to distribute public apps on the App Store, beta versions of apps through TestFlight, and custom apps to specific businesses, including your organization, through Apple Business Manager or Ad Hoc distribution. The Apple Developer Enterprise Program is only for specific use cases that are not addressed with these options. Before applying, use the drop down below to find out which program is best for you.

What types of apps will you distribute?

Please enroll in the Apple Developer Program instead. You’ll get access to resources for public app distribution on the App Store, distribution through Apple Business Manager, Ad Hoc distribution, and beta testing through TestFlight.

Please enroll in the Apple Developer Program instead. You’ll get access to resources for custom app distribution through Apple Business Manager, Ad Hoc distribution, beta testing through TestFlight, and public app distribution. Your customer can use Apple Business Manager or redemption codes to privately distribute custom apps. (Note: If you’re an organization purchasing an app that has been customized for you, simply create an account to access the app on Apple Business Manager. You do not need to join a developer program.)

Please learn about the Apple Developer Program first. The Apple Developer Program is the right option for most organizations that want to distribute proprietary, internal-use apps. It allows you to use Apple Business Manager, Ad Hoc distribution, or redemption codes to privately distribute custom apps to employees, and TestFlight to test beta versions of your apps.

The Apple Developer Enterprise Program is only for specific use cases that cannot be addressed using these methods. Before applying for the Apple Developer Enterprise Program, learn more about the Apple Developer Program to see if it addresses your use case. If not, you can start your application.

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How to Enroll in the Apple Developer Program and Why It’s So Important?

Each app entrepreneur’s dream is to see his/her app in the App Store. Especially as the mobile app store owned by Apple revenue grows rapidly year to year! In 2019 it was estimated to be 54.2 billion $ compared to 2018 46.6 billion. So as you can see, there is definitely a huge potential of publishing your app in there!

If you are considering starting the development process of your own custom app OR already have one and wondering how to make it live — we’re here to help you. From the logical point of view you might presume, that the only things you need are:

But unfortunately, as we know from life experience, not everything is as beautiful and simple as we expected — but we will get to that in the future. In this particular article, I will focus on getting your app live in the App Store very important element, by describing enrollment in Apple Developer Program process.

What is Apple Developer Program?

Apple Developer Program allows us to move the code from developers to our customers. Joining the program helps to reach customers around the world on the App Store for iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, Apple TV, iMessage and on the Safari Extensions Gallery. The account also gives access to beta software deployment (TestFlight), advanced app capabilities (e.g. ApplePay, push notifications), extensive beta testing tools and app analytics.

• Apple’s software and tools
• Beta OS Releases — possibility to install beta OS releases and install them on the development devices
• Developers Tools — access to resources you need to configure application’s services, manage development team, submit new applications and updates
• Advanced app capabilities:
• Apple Pay
• Associated Domains
• Device Check
• GameKit
• iCloud / CloudKit
• In-App Purchase
• MusicKit
• Network Extensions
• NFC Tags
• Personal VPN
• Push Notifications
• Siri
• Wallet
• Testing and Support — allow you to send the application to internal and external testers. Apple allows the application to distribute up to 10,000 external testers.
• Distribution:
• App Store — distribute an application to customers all over the world
• Apple Business Manager and Apple School Manager
• Ad Hoc Distribution — application distributed to a limited number of users.
• Developer ID for macOS for releasing Mac application outside the Mac App Store
• Safari Extensions

Why do I have to enroll in Apple Developer Program and why software house can’t do it for me?

Apple Developer enrollment will be needed in the development process for creating signing, Apple Pay, Push Notification certificates. The whole list above. Later this account with enrollment is needed to release applications to TestFlight and App Store under the client’s company name. During the development process, we as a software house can handle whole development, generating development certificates on our side, but before the release, we need to client invites one of our developers to their organization as an administrator to manage distribution certificates and prepare the application to release.

In short words: we can’t enroll in Apple Developer Program for you, because we are not the app owners. We can certainly make everything else for you, but we have to operate on an account made by you.

Apple Developer Program is not needed in the first phases of the app development. On the same beginning where is no need to implement push notifications, wallet, Apple Pay

How Do You Pay for Apple Developer Program?

You can pay for the Apple Developer Program by simply using your credit card or PayPal. As a default, the main form of payment assigned to your Apple ID will be used — you can change it for example, for your company card if you want in the settings.

The annual fee for individuals and organizations is 99 USD, and for enterprises, the program is 299 USD. Giving into consideration the overall app development costs and how much money can you make through it — the prices are definitely reasonable.

How Long Does It Take to Enroll in Apple Developer Program?

It happens instantly, as the payment has been accepted by Apple. So giving around 15 minutes for enrolling in the program itself (it’s super easy, just a few blanks to fill as I will show you below) you can have it done in no-time.

What are the types of Apple Developer accounts and which one should I choose?

Apple split enrollment programs to individuals and organizations. Individual accounts are designed for single person business. This type of account allows you to distribute applications but does not allow you to contribute the application by the team of developers. Organization accounts allow the application done by the external team —

So, if you consider app development done by the external software development team, freelancers, etc — you should definitely pick an organization account!

What Do I Need To Enroll?

It depends if you are an individual or an organization. In the first case, all you need is your Apple ID (so you have to own at least one Apple device) and that’s it! In case you are an organization, there are more information that you need to prepare visible on the screen below or here.

Even though enrolling to Apple Developer Program is pretty easy, there are few things that may raise your concerns. That is why we’ve prepared a step by step instruction to make sure, that you will do it properly from the very beginning!

Step 1: Check if you have an Apple ID account

If yes — good for you, but make sure that it has two-factor verification (mobile phone or MacBook). If not — you have to create it here.

Step 2: Use your Apple ID to log in at the enrollment site here.

Step 3: Read and accept the Apple Developer Program regulations.

Step 4: Type in your personal account data, visible on the screen below.

In the second form, Apple asks you to repeat your personal information in a Romanized form. It just means that if your data has been typed in a different alphabet (for example Cyrillic or Arabic), you have to transcript it into a Latin one.

Step 5: Select your entity type

We’ve already explained to you the difference between “Individual/Sole Proprietor” and “Company / Organization” accounts. There are also 3 other types to choose: Nonprofit, Accredited Education Institution, and Government Organization. If you are one of those, pick it here and some special regulations or/and facilities may apply to you.

If you choose the Company / Organization type, prepare the info that we’ve mentioned above. It will be needed in this step.

Step 6: Accept the Apple Developer Program License Agreement

Step 7: Now you will see your Apple Developer Programme confirmation data — check if everything is correct.

Step 8: Complete the purchase

Here you will see a final screen, summarizing your purchase with the information, how much the enrollment will cost you. If everything is looking good — click “continue”.

Step 9: Now is the payment step — so you will be asked to type your password again, for security reasons.

After logging in again, you will be presented with the billing form. Fill it out with your data and choose the suitable payment method. You have 2: credit card or Paypal.

Step 10: You are all set up!

After the payment is successfully processed you can start celebrating — you are now enrolled in an Apple Developer Program! Another step closer to presenting your custom app to the world 🙂

Conclusion

Joining the Apple Developer Program is necessary if you want to have your app published in the App Store. So it’s good to do it right from the very beginning! If you are a developer, who has built his own app by him/herself — an individual account will help to present your app to the world!

But if you are someone, who outsourced his/her app idea to the software house or

Launching an application is the first big step in your product life cycle. To run a successful project for a long time, you need to maintain it constantly. And yes, it has some cost. How much exactly? Read our article:

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