Mac App Store free paid app download feature

Question

I have an application that I will be putting on the Mac App Store soon. This will be a paid application.

This is my first app I am submitting, so please excuse the lack of knowledge. I have some guys who helped me a lot during development through testing, etc.

As a reward, we agreed that each of them will receive his version of the application for free. The fact is that I did not think about code signing and security materials at the beginning, and now I have a little dilemma. Of course, I could give them an uncoded version of the application, but I do not want to have a different development branch for these versions in case of future updates.

Do they have the opportunity to download the application from the App Store for free using their "voucher"?

Answer 1

For each version of your application that you submit to the app store, you can create 50 promotional codes that can be redeemed in iTunes

Note: promotional codes expire after 30 days. I usually only generate 10 at a time, saving them safely stored in a text file with the date of generation and deleting them after sending them to the user.

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To create promotional codes:

1) In iTunes Connect, click "Manage Your Applications"

2) Click the app

3) Click "View Details"

4) Click "Promotional Codes"

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For my Mac storage application, I only have the assembly build code signed (and isolated from the sandbox). Debug builds are not signed / non-isolated codes and have "Beta" attached to the package identifier (thus eliminating problems with non-sandbox and sandbox versions of the same package identifier). Then I can quickly give out beta testing to testers.

Answer 2

Yes it is possible. In iTunes Connect, you can create promotional codes that these testers can redeem to get a full copy of your application in the Mac App Store.

Look for this button: