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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/

Please note: When enrolling as an Apple Developer Program member, you are given options to enroll as an individual or enroll your organisation. It is vital that you enroll your organisation and not as an individual.

  • You will require a 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 will 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

Apple API Key

The final step is to request access to be able to set up API Keys within your Apple Developer Account. We required an App Store Connect API key to be able to download the lates app versions in our CRM, but also download nightly reports for your app downloads for your app stats reporting.

To request access to the API you must first do this:

  • Login to App Store Connect and Select the ‘Users and Access’ area
  • From the blue tabs at the top of the screen, click “Integrations”
  • In the left side menu choose ‘App Store Connect API’
  • Under “Team Keys” it will state that “Permission is required to access the App Store Connect API. Only the Account Holder can request access.“
  • Click “Request Access“. This will allow you (or us if you added us as admins) to create API Keys. If you are given an Auth Code to download, please also send that to us.

Once you have access to the app store API you are able to create us a key/certificate for us to use for these automations. You may also have use for these yourself in your own CRMs or other integrations to access app downloads and metrics.

Note: If you gave us admin access to your App Store connect account and you have completed the above steps then we are able to complete the rest. If not following the next steps.

We require four things during the API creation process. The key certificate (often a .p8 file), the key ID, the issuer ID, and your vendor ID.

  • Click to generate a new key
  • Give it a name eg ‘Holidaymaker Automations’ or similar
  • You may only be able to download the key once so save the generated .p8 file safe
  • Make a note of the key ID – this is normally 10 characters long (alphanumeric) and is often in the name of the downloaded .p8 file
  • Make a note of the issuer ID which is visible on the API keys page above the list of API keys (This will look similar to this 1234abcd-12ab-12ab-12ab-123456abcdef)
  • The vendor ID is found in a different part of the app store.
    • Go to ‘Reports’
    • From here you need to be on the Payments and Financial Reports which is often the first page
    • In the top left corner you should see your Vendor ID – make a note of this
  • Then supply us with the p8 file, the Key ID, the Issuer ID, and the Vendor ID
Setting Up Your Own App Store Accounts

This is what the API Key area will look like to anyone who is not the account holder

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