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Hi All! I am a web designer and am pretty new to app development and the app store world. I work with several hundred small business clients all in the same industry. I have found recently that many of my clients have requested having an app be developed. I am thinking about having an app made that I could sell to my clients, which would essentially be the same application but be be branded with each individual clients brand/logo. This would just be a very simple, free iphone application that would benefit each businesses' customers. All of my clients are independent of each other so having a unique app for each of them would be necessary. I am wondering what type of obstacles I would encounter and if this by Apple. Would I be able to publish all of these considering they are just about the same app but they are branded to match each individual businesses logo/brand? I have 100+ clients that are interested in having the app for their small business. Would this be able to be done from my own developer account or would each business need their own apple account? There would be no money/monetization involved, this would just be a free app. I'm sorry for such a long question, I have just not been able to find anyone with a similar circumstance to go to.
Would there be an issue during the screening process with that fact that it is going to be basically be the same application, just a different logo/branding that matches that particular business?
Would there be an issue during the screening process with that fact that it is going to be basically be the same application, just a different logo/branding that matches that particular business?
If each client has their own iTunes Connect account with a paid iOS developer program ($99 per year), and you upload one app to each client's iTunes Connect account, then it shouldn't be an issue.
But if you go the route of uploading various clients' apps under one iTunes Connect account, then sooner or later you will get scrutinized by the App Store reviewer.
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If you're putting out reskinned apps on behalf of multiple clients, you WILL get rejected (and these days, sooner, rather than later). They'll try and make you put them all into one uber-app.
And even then I think you'll have problems with that kind of volume of apps. There is a point about refusing an app if there are already too many like it in the review guidelines. I don't think apple want the store to contain many reskinned apps for multiple clients like you are doing, they would consider it 'cluttering up' the store.
Hi All! I am a web designer and am pretty new to app development and the app store world. I work with several hundred small business clients all in the same industry. I have found recently that many of my clients have requested having an app be developed. I am thinking about having an app made that I could sell to my clients, which would essentially be the same application but be be branded with each individual clients brand/logo. This would just be a very simple, free iphone application that would benefit each businesses' customers. All of my clients are independent of each other so having a unique app for each of them would be necessary. I am wondering what type of obstacles I would encounter and if this by Apple. Would I be able to publish all of these considering they are just about the same app but they are branded to match each individual businesses logo/brand? I have 100+ clients that are interested in having the app for their small business. Would this be able to be done from my own developer account or would each business need their own apple account? There would be no money/monetization involved, this would just be a free app. I'm sorry for such a long question, I have just not been able to find anyone with a similar circumstance to go to.
might be rejected as "duplicate content". Look on it this way: its really a difference between clone and different approach. If you just keep changing visual appearance of the app (logo, color, theme, etc.) for different clients but with the same services then eventually your app will be rejected as duplicate content. If, for example you have 2 similar looking app but one is showing list of bakery stores and other is bicycle shops, then its totally different apps, even if both using the same theme and visual appearance. You can pull it off by starting from the one client and reusing it as a template for the other. Keep adding options (GPS location search, in-app direct call, etc.) to make app different. I assume your 100+ clients are totally different businesess and require some variation in the apps. If they indeed all from the same field then consider universal app for all of them bundled together. Something like a mini mobile yellow pages. And you can charge them for being in the app, not for individual app. Kinda subscription approach. You can even make your app a client talking to server back end like Jetsetter do for vacation trip sales. Then charge your 100+ businesses for account on the server with ability to submit/change its own information, etc. Its all depends on what kind of businesses it is and how you play it.
To add to the question - what if the coding is the same but the actual content is radically different? For instance - if i run advertising for over 100 restaurants, and I want to create an app for each one, reusing the code and only changing the art. Would that be a problem? I would not want to open user accounts for all of them but have the all under my account. The content here is totally different - I couldn't lump 'em all in one app - each place has it's own style, different menu, different specials etc...
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0 • Off Topic Insightful Disagree Dislike Like AwesomeBut if you go the route of uploading various clients' apps under one iTunes Connect account, then sooner or later you will get scrutinized by the App Store reviewer.
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0 • Off Topic Insightful Disagree Dislike Like AwesomeYou can pull it off by starting from the one client and reusing it as a template for the other. Keep adding options (GPS location search, in-app direct call, etc.) to make app different. I assume your 100+ clients are totally different businesess and require some variation in the apps.
If they indeed all from the same field then consider universal app for all of them bundled together. Something like a mini mobile yellow pages. And you can charge them for being in the app, not for individual app. Kinda subscription approach. You can even make your app a client talking to server back end like Jetsetter do for vacation trip sales. Then charge your 100+ businesses for account on the server with ability to submit/change its own information, etc.
Its all depends on what kind of businesses it is and how you play it.
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0 • Off Topic Insightful Disagree Dislike Like AwesomeThe only occasion you may want to put them on your own account is if your doing it for free or for building a portfolio or something
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0 • Off Topic Insightful Disagree Dislike Like AwesomeTo add to the question - what if the coding is the same but the actual content is radically different? For instance - if i run advertising for over 100 restaurants, and I want to create an app for each one, reusing the code and only changing the art. Would that be a problem? I would not want to open user accounts for all of them but have the all under my account.
The content here is totally different - I couldn't lump 'em all in one app - each place has it's own style, different menu, different specials etc...
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