{"id":38348,"date":"2023-02-01T15:45:51","date_gmt":"2023-02-01T20:45:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=38348"},"modified":"2023-02-03T16:36:00","modified_gmt":"2023-02-03T21:36:00","slug":"renewing-the-app-store-small-business-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/01\/renewing-the-app-store-small-business-program\/","title":{"rendered":"Renewing the App Store Small Business Program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@agiletortoise\/109721948729795780\">Greg Pierce<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@agiletortoise\/109721948729795780\"><p>I got an email from Apple saying I&rsquo;m eligible for the Small Business Program&#x2013;which I am already in. Do we need to re-apply?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So did I, though I don&rsquo;t recall getting such an e-mail last year. There doesn&rsquo;t seem to be a place to actually check your status, so of course I re-applied. I&rsquo;m guessing that Apple sent a mass e-mail without bothering to scope it to those not already in the program, but now they&rsquo;ll have to process lots of duplicate applications.<\/p>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@jsq\/109721595177047218\">Jesse Squires<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@jsq\/109721595177047218\"><p>Wouldn&rsquo;t it be nice if App Store Connect showed some kind of &ldquo;small business program&rdquo; badge or other visual indicator of your status?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Instead, I see developers talking about back-calculating Apple&rsquo;s fee from their financial reports to see whether they&rsquo;re still in the program.<\/p>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/03\/enrolling-in-the-app-store-small-business-program\/\">Enrolling in the App Store Small Business Program<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p id=\"renewing-the-app-store-small-business-program-update-2023-02-03\">Update (2023-02-03): <a href=\"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@siracusa\/109791590190073469\">John Siracusa<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@siracusa\/109791590190073469\">\n<p>I had to <em>email Apple<\/em> to find out if I was still enrolled in the Small Business Program. (If it&rsquo;s anywhere on any website, I couldn&rsquo;t find it, and the person who answered my email at Apple didn&rsquo;t tell me where I could have found it myself.) The result: I am still enrolled, despite getting that email about the program.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greg Pierce: I got an email from Apple saying I&rsquo;m eligible for the Small Business Program&#x2013;which I am already in. Do we need to re-apply? So did I, though I don&rsquo;t recall getting such an e-mail last year. There doesn&rsquo;t seem to be a place to actually check your status, so of course I re-applied. 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