Set up your Apple Developer and Google Play accounts

Your app ships under your own brand, so it ships from your own store accounts. Before you publish, set up two accounts in your business's name: an Apple Developer Program membership for the App Store, and a Google Play Console developer account for Google Play. You only need these when you reach the publishing stage, not while you build.

What you will need

• A business or personal identity Apple uses to verify you (the enrollment may ask for a legal entity name, a D-U-N-S number for organizations, and other details).
• A Google account to sign in to Google Play, plus your business details.
• A payment method for each store's fee (see below).

Set both accounts up under the name you want shoppers to see as the app's publisher.

Step 1: enrol in the Apple Developer Program

This step happens inside Apple's developer site, not in Vunda, so the exact screens are owned by Apple. Verify against their current guide before you rely on it.

The Apple Developer Program is a paid annual membership. It costs about 99 USD per year, though the exact figure is set by Apple, so confirm the current price during enrollment. Go to the Apple Developer Program page, sign in with (or create) an Apple Account, and follow the enrollment steps for an individual or an organization. (Source: Apple Developer Program.)

Once you are a member you get App Store Connect, the web tool where your app's listing and builds live. You do not need to set anything up in it yet; Vunda uploads your build here for you later. (Source: App Store Connect.)

Step 2: create your Google Play Console account

This step happens inside Google Play, not in Vunda, so the exact screens are owned by Google. Verify against their current guide before you rely on it.

Go to the Google Play Console, sign in with the Google account you want to own the app, and register as a developer. Google charges a one-time registration fee to open a developer account; the exact amount is set by Google, so confirm it as you register. Choose an organization account if you are publishing as a business. (Source: Google Play Console.)

As with Apple, you do not need to create the app entry yourself. Vunda uploads your Android build into this account when you publish.

You do not upload signing certificates

Both stores require every app to be cryptographically signed. You do not generate, upload or manage those signing certificates yourself. Vunda builds your app with Expo's build service (EAS), which creates and stores the iOS distribution certificate and Android keystore for you. (Source: Expo - EAS Build setup.)

What this means in practice: create and pay for the two accounts above, and that is your whole job at this stage. The keys, certificates and provisioning are handled by the build.

After your accounts are ready

With both accounts created, you can build and publish from the Publish page in Vunda. When your build is finished, Vunda uploads it to your accounts and tells you it is your turn: Your build is ready. Submit it in your store accounts to go live.

At that point Vunda walks you through the final submit, which you do inside your own accounts: Open App Store Connect and select your app. for iOS, and Open Google Play Console and select your app. for Android. We upload the build, but the actual store submission is yours to make, because the accounts are yours. The full publish-and-submit flow has its own guide in this section.