VPP Redeemable Codes in Different Countries

What I think Apple only puts barriers at various points since production and especially in the distribution of apps. Just in demanding a separate store for B2B is a sample of how the company has a belated thinking.

I dream about the day you no longer need app stores and be able to distribute free-form content straight from the browser as a PWA
Anyone from Apple support could participate more in this forum

+1 this is very annoying. Many of our employees work in other countries and use their personal devices and Apple IDs.

The only practical solution I see for foreign BYOD employees is on the public app store.

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+1, same issue for my organization. Any updates?

This is ridiculous.

We're developing an app for a small organization where all devices are personal. Already it proved surprisingly convoluted to distribute the app internally. Finally we found the Redemption Codes solution - which btw still feels like a workaround - somewhere on the web, because in Apple's docs it wasn't clear at all.

So after all the hoop jumping for weeks now it turns out noone can install it apart from employees based in the specific country registered in ABM (which is almost noone).

What the frack??? Especially now when most companies are doing a lot of remote work how do they expect everyone to be in the same country?

Possible infinitely ugly workaround (not tested yet): instruct employees to temporarily switch region to the desired one in their device/iCloud/appstore whatever. (yes I know but at least it might work)

We are facing the same issue and this is quite frustrating. Doesn't make sense , specially when we are targeting any new customer in a different country. Overall, no customer is going to take that lengthy and painful path to try the app.

Is apple listening to this problem and provide some workaround pls?

We're facing the same problem as well. Until now we have asked our customers to create a Business Manager account per country, so that they can create and distribute codes themselves. Which is an absolute nightmare by the way. Everybody is sick about how Apple makes processes unnecessary complex.

Simple solution for Apple: make each VPP redemption code work for each country's App Store. Then global HQ only needs 1x Business Manager account and can distribute the codes easily to all her global employees.

Does anyone have a solution? Same problem.

This is ridiculous. The enterprise program is available if your organization has more than 100 employees. So if you are a franchisor with a lot of franchisee in other countries you cannot access to a program which costs 299$ a year but you have to install a MDM solution which costs around 2$/device per month. Aka thousands $ each year. It is strange that an Apple program CANNOT work without a third party software solution. It is unbearable that the only workaround is for EVERY franchisee to buy a Mac and get an apple customer id so that they can use configurator2 to enroll a device.

+1, We are facing the same problem.

Also for us - surely there must be something to do to make redemption codes international we have 38 different countries.