APPLE Volume Purchase Program for Education

The Volume Purchase Program (VPP) makes it simple to find, buy and distribute apps and selected books in bulk for your institution, so you can provide great content to your students, instructors and sta ff members. And through the VPP Store, you can get special pricing for certain purchases of 20 or more apps.

Volume purchases
The VPP is a scalable solution for managing your institution’s content needs. Choose from thousands of apps in the App Store or the Mac App Store across a broad range of categories, from geography and mathematics to science and history and so much more. The VPP Store allows you to purchase world-class apps in volume for both Mac and iOS devices. Books and textbooks are also available from the iBooks Store. iBooks textbooks provide a rich and engaging user experience, giving your students entirely new ways to learn. With the VPP, it’s easy to equip a large group of users with the learning materials they need.

Managed distribution
Managed distribution is a feature of VPP that lets you distribute apps and books to managed devices or authorised users, and easily keep track of what content has been assigned to which user or device. To benefit from managed distribution, you can use Mobile Device Management (MDM) or Apple Configurator 2 when distributing purchased apps. With managed distribution, apps that are no longer needed by a user can be revoked and reassigned to a different user or device within your institution, so you retain full ownership and control of purchased apps. Once books are distributed, they remain the property of the recipient and are not revocable or reassignable.

Multiple payment options
Multiple payment options are available when you make a purchase on the VPP Store. You can use a purchase order to get VPP Credit that can be redeemed on the VPP Store, or complete your transaction with a credit card. Institutions can get VPP Credit using a purchase order, just as they can when buying any other Apple product directly from Apple or from an Apple Authorised Reseller. 1 You can purchase VPP Credit in specific dollar amounts to be delivered electronically to the VPP account holder.

Special education pricing
Since the VPP allows developers to o ff er special pricing for education institutions, you can receive a 50 per cent discount for certain app purchases in quantities of 20 or more.

Availability
The VPP is available in the following countries or regions: Australia, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Luxembourg, Mexico, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Turkey, the United Arab Emirates, the United Kingdom and the United States. Books are not available in the VPP Store in Canada, Germany, Hong Kong, Singapore, Taiwan, Turkey and the United Arab Emirates.