Apple ID for Enterprise

Hello,
I work at a large organization and we are interested in using iPads for certain business functions. Currently we have a few in the environment. The Apple IDs for these devices are personal ones that belong to the user who it is assigned to. We would like to rollout some general use iPads that will not be used by specific users. We plan to lock down these devices with an MDM we already have in place.
My question is, what Apple ID should I be using for these devices? Should generic ones be created, with no credit card linked to them? And then must the VPP be used to purchase apps and have the keys pushed out via the MDM? I must admit, Apple's documentation for using an iPad in a real world enterprise environment is poor. Too much useless information, no answers that are actually useful. Anyway, I just want to set these devices up in a proper way. Not some overcomplicated work around. From what I have gathered, my only choice is to create an apple id for each device with no credit card, sign up for the VPP (by the way, the link to enroll has been dead all week..great way to do business), and then use our MDM to push keys to the apple id's for each device. If I do so this way, then our corporate credit card only has to be linked to the VPP account, correct? Also, we are a non profit, will the VPP account verify this so we can purchase apps without tax?
Thanks for any information, this whole process is starting out way more complicated then it should be.

We ran into this situation when we started looking at providing iPhones to our employees replacing their blackberries. Employees were concerned about using their credit cards, etc for a company provided phone, but we didn't want to give everyone our credit card number for iTunes. Here are some suggestions from my experience:
1. For VPP you use 1 account separate from ANY iTunes account that is only used for VPP enrollment and purchasing. This cannot be used to download free apps from the App store I believe.
2. 1 Apple ID can be used on multiple devices, you can create a generic apple ID and give this ID to everyone to use. Be warned there are issues...if they use this account for iCloud, iMessage, etc then all the messages and content can show up on others devices, a huge privacy concern. Each uesr can create their own ID on the iPhone/iPad and it does not require a credit card. You are only required to enter the credit card information if you create the account from within iTunes, not on the device itself.
3. Apple has a MAC only software called Apple Configurator, you essentially can clone an iOS device to other devices. Essentially its a ghosting process for iOS and can be used to back up and restore individual users settings who might use a different iPad every day/week.
4..Apple needs to enhance their business support....

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I have one apple ID for multiple devices in my family. I'd like to keep it that way for itunes/app purchases. I would like a simple step 1, step 2, step 3 response on what I need to do to separate all other features like imessage, contacts, emails, etc.
I have been reasearching how to do this on the internet, but I haven't found an easy explanation yet. My family is going crazy over each others imessages being sent to others in the family and not being able to use FaceTime because of conflicting email addresses. I have read that if each person gets their own iCloud account, this would work. However, I need to know what to do after I set everyone up with their own iCloud account. Do I make that the default email address to be contacted or can they still use their hotmail email addresses. Any help- with easy explanation- would be much appreciated!!

We do this in my family now. We have one account for purchases, so it is used to share music and apps (I think that is in Settings/iTunes & App Stores). Each iDevice has this configured.
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