Transfer an app to another iTunes Connect organization

Transferring the ownership of an app to another developer can be done without removing the app from store. After and during the transfer, the app retains its reviews and ratings and the app users continue to have access to future updates. You can transfer numbers of application with same account as there is no limit but each app can be transferred individually.

Note: Team agent is the only one who can transfer an app.    

Criteria for Transferring an App

Make sure you have met following criteria before you transfer an app to another developer:

• Your accounts (your account or your recipient’s account) should not in a pending or changing state.
• The app should use only the content and technology that can be transferred.

* No app version can use an iCloud entitlement.

* No app version can use a Passbook entitlement.

* The app can’t offer (or have previously offered) In-App Purchase subscriptions: auto-  renewable, free, or non-renewing.

• The app and any In-App Purchase products it offers should have a status that supports transfers.

Note: Before going to transfer, make sure your app has atleast one approved verion

The app should have one of the following statues:

 * Ready for Sale

 * Prepare for Submission

 * Developer Removed From Sale

 * Invalid Binary

 * Developer Rejected

* Rejected

In-App Purchase products can have one of the following statuses:

* Approved

* Ready to Submit

* Developer Removed From Sale

* Rejected

• In-App Purchase product IDs on the app shouldn’t same product IDs on any apps in the recipient’s account.
• Turn off TestFlight beta testing for all prerelease versions of your app.

Note:  Transferred apps lose their keychain access.

Transferring an App

You will need recipient’s(team agent’s) Apple ID and Team ID. Recipients can find their Team ID in Member Center.

To initiate an app transfer

1. Make a record of app information you want to have after the transfer. Because you won’t be able to view the app information after the transfer.
2. Scroll to the Additional Information section in App Information section under App Store and click Transfer App.
3. For transferring, make sure the app meets the criteria :

• If all criteria have been met, click Done.
• If all criteria haven’t been met, resolve those that are outstanding.

4. Enter the recipient’s Team Agent Apple ID and Team ID, and click Continue.
5. Verify all the transfer information and contract terms.
6. Read the contract terms, select agreement checkbox and then click Request Transfer.
7. To return to the App Details page click “Done”.

The transfer must be accepted by the recipient organization’s Team Agent within 60 days.

To accept an app transfer

1. Sign in to iTunes Connect as Team Agent. There will be a notice appearing, indicating that an app is ready to transfer.
2. Click Agreements, Tax and Banking.
3. Locate the app being transferred in the Contracts In Process subsection under Transfer Agreements section and click Review.
4. Enter the new metadata(some of them only required if app previously had the same) and review them.

• Support URL
• Atom feed URL
• Marketing URL
• Privacy policy URL
• CCATS (a new CCATS form is required for apps that use export compliance)
• App Review contact information
• App Store contact information

Read the contract terms, select agreement checkbox and then click Accept.

It may take up to two business days to complete the app transfer process, during this process the app status appears as Processing App Transfer.

 After the transfer completion, the app no longer appears in the transferor’s iTunes Connect account and thus it is owned by the app transfer recipient.

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