Hi, So I work as a App Developer, I wanted to know what license is recommended for me, my company has clients that we make apps for. We want to push them to the App Store on our own account, but I wanted to know what license I need and are there any additional costs for each app? Example, this year, my company does 16 apps for a client, and we wish to put them on the App Store, what license do you guys recommend? Also, under a Individual license, its 99USD, but can I only post one app? If not, do I pay per app I post?
Hello @JordanBettridge,
Thanks for posting this on the forums!
From what you have shared, I would suggest going through the process to get an Organizational Apple Developer Account. The biggest reason for this is that under a personal Apple Developer Account you are either going to need to share your Apple Developer Account credentials with all of the developers on your team so that they can access development resources or expect them to download and install new profiles and certificates that you make available to them. This could work, but it is a tons of overhead when most developers now days will want to login to Xcode with the account to help them during development.
Sharing your Apple Developer Account credentials and a poor developer experience is what leads me to suggest an Organizational Apple Developer Account. The biggest benefit that you have with this approach is User Management in the App Store Connect Console so that you have more flexibility with roles and access to developer account resources and not needing to have a shared password.
From a cost perspective, both of the above options currently cost the same amount (Annually, Enterprise Excluded) and do not have any limits on the number of applications that you can upload or deploy. I am sure there is at some point, but our account has close to 300 applications in it and we are still going strong.
Outside of the annual cost, the only other cost would be if you have paid applications, in-app purchases, etc. where the Apple royalty would be applied (Make sure to enroll to the Small Business Program).
https://developer.apple.com/app-store/review/guidelines/#business
Hopefully this helps!
