Apple lets schools and businesses buy app subscriptions in bulk

Apple just revolutionized software procurement for schools and enterprises. If you’ve ever bought app subscriptions, you know you have to purchase them for each user individually. No more! Apple now lets you buy licenses in bulk for all your employees or students with one purchase.

New feature streamlines license procurement for IT teams

This is a huge deal for IT teams at large institutions. Having to individually manage the app subscriptions for every user is a massive administrative burden.

Apple Business Manager and Apple School Manager are now affected by this change. These tools let organizations centrally control their devices and software. The new feature isn’t for buying individual apps. Instead, it’s for purchasing multiple-seat app subscriptions.

Now, administrators can easily buy bulk app licenses without having to check out each user individually.

How does it work? You choose the subscription you want and then assign it to multiple accounts. The payment will be processed for everyone you assigned. No more having to go through the process of buying a license for each user.

Apple is streamlining the buying process, especially for enterprises and academic institutions.

This feature is live for eligible organizations. You can access it through your respective Apple management tools. The price of individual app subscriptions isn’t affected. Only the process of buying and assigning them in bulk has changed.

This makes it much easier for organizations that use bulk software licensing to update user counts.