So I have developed an app for a customer and am wondering if they need to have their own developer account to sell the app on the store? …or can they upload to the app store using my developer credentials while retaining the rights and collecting revenue etc?
Surely you can develop something for someone else and then not have to get them to sign up for a developer account to get their app in the store?
Drew
you have to give your distribution provisional profile to client with your developer credentials.
There is nothing about Apple Developer account sharing....
If you upload the app with your developer account's distribution profile then developer name of the will be yours as well as the rights and revenue of apps will be yours..
If you upload the app with your clients developer account's distribution profile then developer name of the will be client's as well as the rights and revenue of apps will be client's..
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I have written an app for a client and I want to create ad hoc builds and submit to app store using his accounts.
Does he need to create an iTunes Connect AND a Apple Developer account - aren't they connected?
Paid Apple developer account is the main thing..(it lets you access to iOS dev centre..sdk betas..etc)
ITunes Connect require some more documents and agreeing to term conditions so that you can build and deploy your apps too.
Both are required...payment will be for Apple developer only.
I am a new iphone dev.
The book i am reading does not mention this but do I have to be a paid dev to access provisioning portal?
You need to be an iPhone Developer which costs $99 a year. You don't need access to be a developer mind, you just can't publish to a device or to the app store without it.
When you log in to the Apple Developer website you have access to tonnes of resources to help you. $99 a year is a good price I think, given what you have access to. You need access to the provisioning portal allows you to publish to an iPhone/iPad and on to the app store. But if you don't want to pay, you can still have access to the SDK
At what stage of a iPhone app development do we need provisioning profile and developer certificate? What are their importance and from where we get them? And how do we distribute our iPhone app for testing by other users and finally to end customers in App Store, using provisioning profile or developer certificate or something else. Please throw some light on this matter!!!
You can develop apps for the iOS Simulator for free. If you are not yet testing your apps on actual devices, and are not submitting apps to the App store, then you don't need developer certificates.
When you get to the point you are doing either of the above, then you will need certificates and provisions, and can read about how to use them here in the Development Guide and here in the Store Resource page on Apple's developer site.
You will need to read and follow the instructions in these documents very carefully. Don't depend on any quick answer or assumptions.
A developer account will allow you to not only test on your device, but also to generate provisioning profiles for "ad hoc" provisioning, which allows you to share apps with up to 100 devices a year (your beta testers/clients/etc.).
You can't submit an app to the App Store before you have a developer account; and you shouldn't submit an app before having tested it on at least one device.
We have developed an application for a company who want to release it under their own account. It has been developed on our account and has had provisioning profiles attached to it from our own account. What is the best way to do this? Do I have to send them the xCode project and talk them through how to attack a provisioning profile to the project? Or can I just get their login details and create a provisioning profile from the Mac in the office and do it for them? Or is there a "transfer to different account" option?
Many thanks!
To answer your last question: Apps cannot be easily transferred to another account (when already available at the App Store).
But both of the other suggestions would work: An app is not tied to an account until you submit it via iTunesConnect. So you can just use provisioning profiles from another account to build the app for submission. Of course, you can do that in your office, using the credentials of the customer, or you can just hand over the project and let the customer do the submission.
I have created a iPhone application and got successfully approved by apple. The application has been uploaded in my company's developer account.
Now my client wants access to see the sales report. I cannot give him my company's developer account log in details because the account has many applications other than my client's.
Is there a way to allow access to my client to see the financial reports for his applications alone.
What are the alternatives available.
Update:
My client is particular that he wants to log in and see.
As per my knowledge, the only way he can see the report details is if I had uploaded the application using his own developer account.
One of the developer says,
"We will submit the iPhone application to app store from your iTunes appStore account. SO you will naturally have the access to all the available data. Please note that you need to buy a paid account for submitting the application to app store"
Does the iTunes appStore account mentioned above refers to developer account or is it different
If your client does not already have a developer account, he needs to enroll into the Developer Program and resubmit the App through his Developer ID. This will require an annual $99 fee to maintain access to iTunes Connect.
There is no "Sales Report Viewing" account... Apple will pay HIM for the sales of the App, not you. It sounds like you are paying Him now for his App sales from iTunes Connect.
If it's his App and you simply did the programming work, then you should have submitted it through his Developer Program plan in the first place - not yours. He should have given YOU access to iTunes Connect through his plan to submit the App, or have done that work himself.
Next time, you'll need to build this level of detail into the contract - specifically whether you will be paying him a monthly commission on sales, or he paid you for your time and the App is now his to manage with Apple.
-t
One idea: you could make a modified version of AppSalesMobile that has your iTunesConnect username, password, and the apple ID of his particular app built in, but didn't display information about any other apps, and build him a copy for his phone.
http://github.com/omz/AppSales-Mobile
Might be easier to just send him the sales in an email every day, though.