Apple Developer Enterprise Program - implications WRT App Store distribution

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fabien_hinge OP

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Hi,

We’re a large organization enrolled in the "Apple Developer Program" as an "Organization" (not individual), with multiple apps on the App Store.

We’ve run into the 100-device limit across our QA and development teams (split between Ad Hoc and Development provisioning profiles) and are exploring options.

I’ve seen that some organizations create separate, department-specific Apple Developer Program accounts (e.g., QA, Dev, Prod) to get an additional 100 device slots per account.

=> Is this a common and Apple-approved approach?

We’re also considering the Apple Developer Enterprise Program (https://developer.apple.com/programs/enterprise/).

=> A few questions:

If we enroll in this program, would we lose the ability to distribute apps via the App Store? Is it strictly for internal distribution?
If so, could we maintain a separate account for App Store distribution?

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Oil3 OP

2w

Hi, such a lovely issue "we grown so much we hit the limit!", félicitations!

About the 'enterprise program': it can be a separate account, has to be if you already are in the non-enterprise program; it still has 100 slots for debugging? Specifically, you can't use that for the AppStore, picture that program made for putting special apps for all of an 100+ staff.. And stricto senso your questions:

No you won't lose that ability (still present on your current, distinct, dev account), but yes it is strictly internal with quite some requirements from Apple to be eligible.
From my understanding, this is the way to go, different accounts for different teams.

I prefer to answer questions rather than unasked advice, but, when/if you go with another dev account, try to keep separated distribution and testing, and provide company email accounts for this purpose, like this you maintain control.

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