Our app is solely a Business to Business app. We have some client requirements for installing the test and production version of the app on the same device at the same time.
What we would like to do is distribute the same app with different bundle ids.
eg
com.ourbundleid.appname
com.ourbundleid.appname.test
I know the guidelines specify to not do this under the 4.3 Spam section but this is a specific request from a number of our clients to have a duplicate version, given that its B2B is there a possibility for exemption for B2B apps?
Thanks
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We'll be releasing a B2B app next year, this app will be used as part of the employees job.
In guidelines section 5.1.1 (V)
"If your app doesn’t include significant account-based features, let people use it without a login. If your app supports account creation, you must also offer account deletion within the app."
A user does not create an account through the app. An account is created for every employee by the client.
A user will login via their employee id. This account is controlled by the client.
Any and all data generated by the employee is owned by the client as its business data and data must be linked against whoever created (eg to pay commission to employees for the sales they made)
So an account exists but the guidelines say "If your app supports account creation, you must also offer account deletion within the app."
Since a user cannot create an account themselves, the account deletion requirement isn't relevant here.
Is my understanding of the guidelines correct?
Or is there another section that would be applicable here?
We're looking at ways to distribute an app to our clients. Its a business to business app.
For various reasons we'd like to avoid the Apple Business Manager if possible and distributing B2B apps with enterprise is against Apples policies.
We were informed by one of our clients that its possible to distribute the app by signing it with a developer distribution cert (non-enterprise) and just pushing the ipa through an MDM.
Is this possible and if so what's needed to accomplish this?
If it's not possible are there any other options other than the ABM?