HT204053 Apple ID in An Office

I oversee several machines (Mac Books and Mac Pros) in a small office environment. I want to be able to keep their software (both OS and App specific) up to date as well as from time to time make purchases from the app store. What I don't want to do is create a new Apple ID for each machine in order to buy from the app store, etc. Is there a way around this? I have 6 machines to work with.

To begin with, I would like to try to explain Apple's confusing nomenclature in regard to iCloud.
Apple have called the whole cloud thing iCloud, there are a number of features under the iCloud umbrella, some of which require their own login. iTunes is one of these, another is what Apple have unfortunately also called iCloud too.
You can use the same Apple ID (account) to login to both iCloud and iTunes, but you don't need to and often users will login to each service using a different ID.
The part that you need to remember is that the services available when you log into iCloud are completely different and unrelated to those when you log in to iTunes. Your iCloud login enables mail, contacts, calendars, find my phone, Back to My Mac, Documents & Data sharing and photostream, it does not affect any of your iTunes services.
To avoid confusion when discussing your problem, when I mention iCloud, I am referring to the services under the iCloud login, Whereas I will refer to the whole cloud thing as The Cloud.
Whilst you don't actually say, if you require an iCloud account for each computer so that each user has their own calendars and e-mail etc, you can do this, but also only use one Apple ID for the Mac App Store on all of your computers.
There may be a limit to the number of computers that can use the same ID, but I am not certain what this is.

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