Are schools required to use the Volume Purchase Program?

Hello,
I am involved in providing a brand new school with iPads for students. The volume purchasing program lets businesses and schools download apps in bulk. However, one must pay for every app for every app one each device (even with bulk discount). However, I don't see why I can't set up all the school's iPads under one Apple ID without the Volume Purchasing Program. Is there anything that prohibits me from doing this? Going about it the second way saves a lot of money for the small school we are building.
Thanks!

Oops thats the z3 forum not z3 tablet. My mistake. If any mods see this, please move this to the Sony Xperia z3 tablet compact forum section

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Found an answer!
At http://www.apple.com/education/volume-purchase-program/faq.html, I found the following:
Are all apps in the App Store eligible to be purchased in the Volume Purchase Program Education Store?
All paid iOS apps are available through the Volume Purchase Program. This does not include in-app purchases.

With the Volume Purchase Program, what happens if a device needs to be reprovisioned?

In the event that an end user leaves the company and turns in their iPad, we want to be able to give that iPad to another end user. Will we need to buy another code? Or can we have that app downloaded to the same device with the IMEI or Serial Number (or any other static info for that matter)?
If not, what is the solution to this? I'm certain we are not the only company facing this issue. If we have corporate owned iPads which we deploy Applications to using the Volume Purchase Program (along with an MDM solution), how can we use these codes for more than one user? Or are we simply forced to purchase code after code for any new user using the same iPad?
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Can I purchase an app card for the volume purchasing program at my school

You can find complete details about the Education Volume Purchase Plan here:
http://www.apple.com/education/volume-purchase-program/
If you have further questions, contact your Apple account executive; they'll be happy to help you.
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Can you purchase non-education books through the Volume Purchasing Program?, Can you purchase non-education books through the Volume Purchasing Program?

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Looking at the examples posted in the documents, there are examples of qty 12 and qty 10, and no mention of minimum purchases. There also appears to be no price break for apps purchased through the program. So this is different from the 20+ program where you are getting volume discounts. Clearly it's more valuable for the 20-and-over market -- can you imagine creating and managing 500 accounts with 500 separate bills when you buy 500 copies of a 99-cent app? Aack!
The default way that the App Store is set up is totally oriented to individual private purchasers. The Apple ID is permanently linked to the app purchased, and you must know the username and password of the Apple ID that installed the app in order to update that app on that device. Oh, and you can't just use one Apple ID and password for every machine in your group.
I'm thinking of creating a naming scheme for Apple ID's -- one for each machine. I'll create an email address for each machine and then that becomes the Apple ID for that machine's App Store purchases [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], etc. Give them all the same password. Then all I have to worry about is if I need to shift around software and recombine them so that I end up with multiple Apple IDs on single machines...

Is the Volume Purchase Program available to businesses in Canada?

I want to roll out iPads to our sales force but want to use Apple Configurator to control use of the devices.

Sorry, I have no idea. I'm sure there is a reason, but being just a fellow user (as we all are here in these forums), I'm not party to what that reason might be.
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About Volume Purchase Program

I want to use the Volume Purchase Program, and in order to use this, whether my Apple ID must be under certain iTunes Stores like US and Canada, or it can be under any iTunes Store, like Hongkong and China?

The VPP is available in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, New Zealand, Spain, United Kingdom, and United States. If you are not in one of those countries, the VPP will not be availble to your company or school.
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Volume Purchasing Program -- how to use in practice?

I have been pointed in the direction of the Volume Purchasing Program for Business described at http://www.apple.com/business/vpp/ . I'm kind of trying to wrap my brain around this -- so far my "solution" to dealing with the AppStore is to find some work-around to the AppStore when there is software or a software update that an employee needs for his/her work computer. (The most common work around being convincing the colleague that they can live without the software!)
On the VPP webpage it refers to this document (http://images.apple.com/business/docs/VPP_Business_Guide_US_6_4_2012.pdf), which purports to show Apple's "solution" to businesses buying software for business use. If I understand the concept correctly, we will have one email address, with one account, for all of the computers in the business. So I set up an email account, example [email protected], attach it to the VPP as the AppleID, and all the bills go to there. Suppose I need to buy seven copies of Keynote for my seven Sales Department laptops. I go and make the purchase, which generates a single charge of $139.93 ($19.99 times seven) for all of the purchases. And I get a code which can be used seven times to install the software on the seven computers. Ok, so far so good.
Then it gets a little vague. The documentation describes four ways to install the software. First way:
Email the redemption URL directly to users. Users simply click the URL, either from their mobile device or from a Mac or PC. iTunes opens the app page in the App Store. The redemption code is automatically entered, enabling users to immediately download the app after authenticating with their Apple ID.
Now we come to a full stop with cartoon special effects. WHOSE Apple ID?!?!? These are company-owned computers running company-owned software for business purposes. Employees come and go. Employees change jobs. Jobs functions get reorganized. Hardware and software get re-deployed to follow along with operational necessities. Suppose the seven sales reps get new computers, and four of their old laptops go to delivery drivers and the other three get put on a shelf to canibalize for parts -- the seven copies of Keynote have to end up on the new computers, and need to be OFF of the old computers. Suppose Larry, Curley and Moe are in a department that gets reorganized. Larry leaves, and Curley takes over Larry's spreadsheets while Moe takes over Larry's presentations. So Curley needs Larry's copy of Numbers moved to his computer while Moe needs Larry's Keynote. How does that work? Does Curley's machine end up with needing Larry's Apple ID to update Numbers and Curley's Apple ID to update Pages, with Moe's machine needing Larry's Apple ID to update Keynote and Moe's Apple ID to update Pages?
There are 3 other methods to distribute software listed in the doc. #2:
Post the redemption codes and URLs to an internal website, such as a company intranet page. Your business can also create websites to manage the distribution of redemption codes and URLs. Notify your users that the app is available, then direct them to an internal website hosted on your company intranet to initiate the download. You can also build an internal app catalog that provides a web-based portal for employees to install apps directly from their device.
This one doesn't mention Apple IDs for installation, but I'm suspicious that it will want an individual Apple ID per device, too, just like the email distribution. The wording "their device" is a little ominous...
Next method:
Use a third-party Mobile Device Management (MDM) solution to centrally manage codes. Many third-party MDM solutions provide tools for IT administrators to upload the spreadsheets into a management console. These solutions help distribute codes to authorized users and keep track of how many devices have redeemed the codes provided. Check with your preferred MDM partner to see if these features are supported. To learn more about Mobile Device Management solutions for iOS visit www.apple.com/iphone/business/integration/mdm.
Anybody know of a third-party solution that manages business software on business devices?
Last Method:
Use Apple Configurator to install apps on new or supervised devices. Apple Configurator on a Mac makes it easy to mass configure and deploy devices that are centrally controlled. Redemption code spreadsheets acquired through the Volume Purchase Program can be imported by Apple Configurator, tracking the number of apps installed on each device. To update deployed apps using Apple Configurator, you must reconnect to the same Mac from which the apps were installed. Learn more at itunes.apple.com/us/app/apple-configurator.
Looking at the documentation (and the two scathing reviews!) this doesn't really work very well, AND it can only push software to iOS devices, where I need to mostly install on my 10.6, 10.7 and 10.8 machines. And it specifically mentions that each piece of software creates a one-to-one relationship between the managing computer and the managed device. Suppose my boss installs Keynote on machines 1 & 2, and I install it on 3, 4, 5, 6, & 7. Then he install Pages on machine 1, 4, 6, & 7 and I install Pages on 2, 3, & 5. The seven machines have 4 different permutations of who installed what. That's with only seven machines, two admins, and two pieces of software -- imagine 70 machines and 20 pieces of software!!!
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Looking at the examples posted in the documents, there are examples of qty 12 and qty 10, and no mention of minimum purchases. There also appears to be no price break for apps purchased through the program. So this is different from the 20+ program where you are getting volume discounts. Clearly it's more valuable for the 20-and-over market -- can you imagine creating and managing 500 accounts with 500 separate bills when you buy 500 copies of a 99-cent app? Aack!
The default way that the App Store is set up is totally oriented to individual private purchasers. The Apple ID is permanently linked to the app purchased, and you must know the username and password of the Apple ID that installed the app in order to update that app on that device. Oh, and you can't just use one Apple ID and password for every machine in your group.
I'm thinking of creating a naming scheme for Apple ID's -- one for each machine. I'll create an email address for each machine and then that becomes the Apple ID for that machine's App Store purchases [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], etc. Give them all the same password. Then all I have to worry about is if I need to shift around software and recombine them so that I end up with multiple Apple IDs on single machines...

How can I do a clean install after doing an update using a volume purchase license?

My question is this: We purchased 20 licenses of Lion through the Volume Purchase program. 2 of the users installed it first doing an upgrade - now they have decided they want to do a clean install. How can they do a clean install - I can't give them the installer cd we created because I have been informed by Apple Sales that it will use another license from our quantity of 20 - but they offered no other solution.
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Is there an ETA for the availability of Volume Purchase Program in UK?

The Volume Purchase Program in the US looks to be an incredibily useful service.
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Does anyone have any information about when/if this same service will be availabile to UK businesses?
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Sorry, but Apple has said nothing that I've seen regarding the expansion of the VPP to any other countries.
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Apple has not yet opened up the Volume Purchase Plan in Norway.
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In-app purchases are not currently available through the VPP. Whether Apple will ever come up with a system to allow VPP in-app purchases I can't guess. You may want to consider making a "premium" version of your app that includes what would normally be an in-app purchase and then make that version available via the VPP.
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