Managing IOS Developer AND IOS Enterprise Developer accounts

Question

There has been a lot of questions on this already that answer some of my questions. I am looking for someone who has direct experience with setting up and managing both accounts

Answer 1

I have experience with managing both Developer and Enterprise a/c. We have multiple applications in appstore. We mainly use the enterprise a/c for testing and developer's a/c for publishing the application to app store. This has worked fine for us for more than a year now.

That being said, managing two accounts is cumbersome. I have no idea why Apple won't allow us to create App Store distribution profile using the Enterprise a/c! Here are few recommendations:

• Choose the names of the accounts so that you could easily distinguish them e.g. "xxx developer" and "xxx enterprise".
• It is possible to create the developer and ad-hoc distribution profiles in both the accounts. Overtime it can become messy especially if you have multiple developers and applications. So I would recommend forming some guidelines for the accounts usage beforehand.
• You can use the Wildcard App Id when creating the distribution profile. So you can avoid changing the Apple Id for the same application in these accounts. However, if you use Push Notifications and/or In App Purchase then you will have to use explicit App Id, and App Id needs to be different in each account.