{"id":120853,"date":"2020-11-18T14:46:05","date_gmt":"2020-11-18T14:46:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/developer.apple.com\/news\/?id=i7jzeefs"},"modified":"2020-11-18T14:46:05","modified_gmt":"2020-11-18T14:46:05","slug":"announcing-the-app-store-small-business-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2020\/11\/18\/announcing-the-app-store-small-business-program\/","title":{"rendered":"Announcing the App&nbsp;Store Small Business Program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We believe that small businesses are the backbone of our global economy and the beating heart of innovation and opportunity in communities around the world. Launching January&nbsp;1,&nbsp;2021, the industry-leading new App&nbsp;Store Small Business Program is designed to accelerate innovation and help propel your small business forward. The program has a reduced commission rate of 15% on paid apps and in-app purchases, so you can invest more resources into your business and continue building the kind of quality apps your customers love.<\/p>\n<p>The vast majority of developers on the App&nbsp;Store who sell digital goods and services will qualify for the Small Business Program.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Existing developers who made up to $1 million in proceeds in 2020 for all their apps, as well as developers new to the App&nbsp;Store, can qualify for the program and the reduced commission.<\/li>\n<li>If a participating developer surpasses the $1 million threshold, the standard commission rate will apply for the remainder of the year.<\/li>\n<li>If a developer\u2019s business falls below the $1 million threshold in a future calendar year, they can re-qualify for the 15% commission the year after.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Stay tuned for additional details in early December.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We believe that small businesses are the backbone of our global economy and the beating heart of innovation and opportunity in communities around the world. Launching January&nbsp;1,&nbsp;2021, the industry-leading new App&nbsp;Store Small Business Program is designed to accelerate innovation and help propel your small business forward. The program has a reduced commission rate of 15% [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apple-developer-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120853\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}