This month I prolonged my iOS Developer Account for 4th year. This is kind of anniversary. So to celebrate I decided to move from Individual to iOS Developer Company Account.
After reading the post iOS Developer Program: from individual to company I was ready for everything.
My experience wasn’t so bad I’d say it was really flashy and joyful.
Transition
Before start I had a registered company, bank accounts and all papers in digital format. The main difference from past years is you need to be verified by voice – every important confirm is made by phone call where you need to know your name, surname, company name, email, working phone number and EnrollmentID if any. It takes about 5 minutes to spell all those info if you’re from not english native country as me. Only patience. 
So my process was:
- Called to Apple Developer Support USA. They girl said that my account including Provision Portal had to be not available while transitioning and I could do nothing during this time. Confirmed two times that I’d got all her warnings. And confirmed that had prepared everything including company details papers.
- After 10 minutes I had an email with Enrollment ID and a link to a form to launch moving process to the Company Developer Account. The form had a few standard fields like company name and business address.
- A few hours after I had second email with asking to call back to any support phone numbers. The transition process was launched.
- In the morning I called to the Apple Developer Support UK because US and AU was sleeping already. The girl with very clear voice asked for full name, mail, enrollment id and company name. The girl said OK and asked to wait an email soon.
- 5 minutes after I got email with link where I set two check–points and press OK.
- Then I got an email with “Request for Company Assignment Complete” and Developer and Provision portals had started to work immediately.
I spoke on quite middle “russian–English”
but surely and clearly.
Everything had taken less than 12 hours with sleep at night.
No fax, no print-scanned or emailed document. Two 2 calls, 3 emails.
And the latest thing I was pleased is payment for the account for following year. Now payment works via store.apple.com. It’s easy as checkout of any iPod is. It’s absolutely easy if you buy here regularly.
Wish you to be lucky enough to have the same experience.
