Apple Wallet VAS & NFC Entitlement for Approved Product Plan

So we are developing an NFC reader for a client and one of the requirements was Apple ECP. We submitted a product plan and it was approved and we were given access to the specific documentation for ECP. We are looking to only use Loyalty passes via NFC. Not Apple Pay. We wish to develop passes that have NFC capability and apparently you need another approval for NFC Entitlement. Apple just denied our application. No reason given, just denied. How are we suppose to develop a solution when we can only do one side of the development? Also we are seeing VAS mentioned and believe we also need access to this documentation as well, but no idea where to request it. Nothing in our developer portal or wpc portal. Can someone from Apple please steer us in the right direction.

As we understand it we need:

  1. Approved hardware product plan (which we have)
  2. Access to ECP 2.0 documentation (which we have)
  3. Access to VAS protocol documentation (we don't have)
  4. NFC entitlement to be able to create NFC enabled passes.

Let me know what we need to do or if I am not understanding things correctly.

Thanks

The developer forums is not an appropriate medium to discuss specific NFC entitlements and documentation.

Please continue communicating with the teams regarding your entitlements and VAS documentation.

Any update on this ? the same case with us on a span of 4 months we sent 2 requests and refused , no reason nothing . i mean all we want is the ability to use nfc on passes nothing else , no idea why this is so complex . with google you don’t even need a developer account and it’s for free , here we pay and we can’t even get the full functionality the passes offer , we got the hardware and the solution but we find out we need an nfc entitlement to allow passes to have nfc ? i mean our use case is very simple instead of having barcode on the passes we want them to be via nfc and we already got the nfc hardware but we find out we need nfc entitlement which we tried requesting but getting refused with no reason at all. at least tell u what is the problem what how to fix it not outright refuse without any reason at all. if anyone got any solution please provide.

Apple Wallet VAS & NFC Entitlement for Approved Product Plan
 
 
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