Requirements
A business Gmail account
A D-U-N-S® Number (verifies your organization’s identity and legal entity status)
Legal Entity Status
Your organization must be a legal entity so that it can enter into contracts with Apple. We do not accept DBAs, fictitious businesses, trade names, or branches.
Legal Binding Authority
As the person enrolling your organization in the Google Developer Program, you must have the legal authority to bind your organization to legal agreements. You must be the organization’s owner/founder, executive team member, senior project lead, or an employee with legal authority granted to you by a senior employee.
A Website
Your organization’s website must be publicly available and the domain name must be associated with your organization.
Enrollment process
Step 1: Go to Google Play Console and sign in with your Google account. If you do not have a Google account, then click Create account.
Step 2: Choose to create a Google developer account as "An Organization" and select "A company or business" in the drop down menu.
Step 3: Go through the requirements and click Continue on the next screen.
Step 4: Enter a publicly visible Developer name. This can be any name you want. For example, “[My Business Name] Developer Account.”
Step 5: Next, click Create or select payments profile to link a Google payments profile to your account:
For creating a new payments profile, you will be asked to enter the D-U-N-S number for your organisation:
If you already have an existing payments profile, you’ll be asked to choose between using your existing profile or creating a new one.
Next, enter or confirm your name and address.
When you’re done setting up your payments profile, click Next.
Step 6: Share the following information about your organisation:
Organisation size
Organisation phone number (include + followed by country code and then the number. For Example: +13021234567)
organisation website (Please ensure that the ownership of the website domain is with the organisation. Enter a valid URL starting with http:// or https:// )
Step 7: Public Developer Profile: Add your phone number and email address. Google will verify both before moving forward.
Step 8: Provide the relevant information about your apps, including:
Number of apps to be published
Earning money on Google Play
App categories.
Step 9: Share your contact information with Google
Step 10: Check the Developer Distribution agreement and Console Term of services checkboxes, then click Create account and pay.
Step 11: You'll need to pay a one-off $25 registration fee to create your developer account. Complete the payment by paying the registration fee for your account with your debit/credit card.
Verification
Step 1: Once you’ve completed the payment, click on Verify ID to complete your identity verification.
Step 2: Agree to the terms, then click the Begin verification button.
Step 3: Enter a legal name, then select the ID type.
Step 4: Once you’ve provided the required details, click Next.
Step 5: You will find that your ID is being verified and in progress.
Note:
Once the ID verification process is completed, which may take up to 2 business days, you will be able to publish apps.
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