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Setting Up Your Own App Store Accounts

Jamie McDonald

HXP Admin

Thu 8th Jan 2026

When using the holidaymaker app surfaces you would need to create both an Apple App Store Developer account, and a Google Play Store Developer account. You also need a Google Firebase account which is used for push notifications and usage analytics.

Apple App Store

Apple have a step by step guide on how to register a developer account. This can be found here : https://developer.apple.com/programs/enroll/

  • You will require an standard Apple Account to do this process – If you do not have one then you can go here to register a new one with your email address
  • The Apple account you use will be the ‘Owner’ of the developer account
  • As a business/organisation you need to go though this process yourself
  • You may require your VAT numbers, and/or DUNS numbers to create an account
  • Apple may need to verify your business – often by giving someone senior a phone call – eg MD, or CEO
  • The apple developer account has a yearly fee which can be set to auto renew
  • You will need to agree to changes to the app policies/agreements which could happen every few months
  • If you do not agree with new policy agreements, or miss the annual payment on your account, your apps will be removed from the app stores

Once you have your developer account setup you can add the holidaymaker developers, and implementations team to create your app records, and the various certificates and app IDs etc. To do this you need to add one of our emails addresses as a high level admin : developers@holidaymakerapp.co.uk

Setting Up Your Own App Store Accounts
  • Login to your developer account : https://developer.apple.com/account
  • Under the ‘App Store Connect’ section of the dashboard click on Users and Access
  • This will then take you to App Store Connect – click on the blue + symbol to add a new user
  • Fill in the form with the developers@holidaymakerapp.co.uk email address and tick on the ‘Admin’ role
Setting Up Your Own App Store Accounts

The new user add form will look like this - click on 'Admin' under roles to allow us access to build, and maintain the app records

Google Play Store Account

Google have a step by step guide on how to register a developer account. This can be found here: https://support.google.com/googleplay/android-developer/answer/6112435?hl=en

  • You will require a standard Google Account to do this process – if you do not have one then you can here to register a new one with your email address
  • The Google account you use will be the ‘Owner’ of the developer account
  • As a business/organisation you need to go though this process yourself
  • You may require your VAT numbers, and/or DUNS numbers to create an account
  • The google account has a one off enrolment fee
  • You do not need to agree to changes in policies on Google, but you will be emailed changes in these regularly to ensure that you comply. When we update apps you are essentially agree to the policies at that point.

Once you have your developer account setup you can add the holidaymaker developers, and implementations team to create your app records, and create the various certificates and app IDs etc. To do this you need to add one of our emails addresses as a high level admin : developers@holidaymakerapp.co.uk

Setting Up Your Own App Store Accounts
  • Login to your developer account : https://play.google.com/console/u/0/developers
  • On the sidebar menu choose ‘Users and permissions‘
  • This will then take you to the users list – click on the blue ‘Invite New Users’ button on the top right of the user list
  • Fill in the form with the developers@holidaymakerapp.co.uk email address and click on the Account permissions tab to then tick the user on as an Admin
Setting Up Your Own App Store Accounts

The new user add form will look like this - click on 'Admin' under the 'Account permissions' tab to allow us access to build, and maintain the app records

Google Firebase Project

The apps require a Google Firebase account and project. This is the system which is used for push notifications on both Android and iOS as well as giving us usage stats of users, and developer information like crash reports etc.

  • You will require a standard Google Account to do this process – if you do not have one then you can here to register a new one with your email address – You can use the same one as your developer account
Setting Up Your Own App Store Accounts
  • Go to https://console.firebase.google.com/ and login with your google account if not so already
  • Click on the big ‘Get started by setting up a Firebase project’ button.
  • If you already have projects on this account this will look different and instead click on ‘Create a new firebase project’
Setting Up Your Own App Store Accounts
  • Give your project a good name eg ‘Holiday Park Company Holidaymaker’
  • Untick the developer program switch else they may spam you with things you may not need to know about
Setting Up Your Own App Store Accounts
  • Leave on Gemini on as they may be useful in the future
  • Ensure that analytics is enabled for the project
  • Choose an Analytics account for stats to be sent too – This can be an existing account connected to this Google Account or you can create a new one
  • This will then show you progress spinner as it creates your project in the firebase infrastructure
Setting Up Your Own App Store Accounts
  • Once created you need to add developers@holidaymakerapp.co.uk as a owner of the project so we can create the keys we need for the apps and notifications etc
  • Click settings cog icon near top right corner (By ‘Project Overview’)
  • Choose Users and permissions
  • Click on the blue Add member button
  • Add developers@holidaymakerapp.co.uk  with the Owner role
Setting Up Your Own App Store Accounts

Add member form on Google Firebase