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App Store Connect

App Store Connect

Let Bloxks publish your app to the App Store for you.

Official App Store Connect docs

What is App Store Connect?

App Store Connect is Apple’s control room: it is where apps get submitted, reviewed and published on the App Store. Connect it once and Bloxks can publish your app for you, from build to submission.

What it unlocks in Bloxks

  • One-click publishing: Bloxks compiles your app, uploads it to Apple and submits it for review, end to end.
  • Complete App Store listing: name, subtitle, description, keywords, screenshots, privacy details. Bloxks prepares everything.
  • Updates: every time you improve your app, ship a new version without leaving Bloxks.
  • Status tracking: follow the review and release progress directly from your project.

What you need first

An Apple Developer account (99 USD per year). It is Apple’s mandatory pass to publish on the App Store, whatever tool you use. The whole journey, from signing up to tax forms: Set up your Apple account.

Connect App Store Connect to Bloxks

  1. Open App Store Connect, then Users and Access, then Integrations.

    App Store Connect, Users and Access, Integrations tab: App Store Connect API selected, and the + button next to Active

  2. Create an API key with the Admin role. Apple refuses to create your app’s distribution certificate with any other role. Step by step: Apple key with Admin access.

    The Generate API Key form: name Bloxks API, access Admin

  3. Copy the Issuer ID and the Key ID shown on the page.

    The Issuer ID above the key list, with its Copy button

  4. Download the .p8 file. Careful: Apple lets you download it only once.

    The new key in the Active list, with its Download button

  5. In Bloxks, open Connections, pick App Store Connect, click Add connection and fill in the three values plus a contact phone number (required by Apple for review).

Good to know

  • Your .p8 key is encrypted on our servers and only used to talk to Apple for you. It is never shown again.
  • Connect once, publish every app: the same credentials work for all your Bloxks projects.
  • Apple’s review usually takes 24 to 48 hours.
  • Selling subscriptions? This Admin key is for publishing only. RevenueCat needs a second key dedicated to purchases (Apple in-app purchase key), and Apple requires the Paid Apps agreement to be active. The full checklist: Paywall and subscriptions.

Want to go deeper? Read the official App Store Connect API docs.

Go further

The pages of this documentation that use App Store Connect.

Set up your Apple account

Membership, paid apps agreement, bank, tax and the smaller commission: everything Apple asks before your first publication.

Publish to the App Store

Bloxks prepares your listing, generates the screenshots and submits your app to Apple.

Test on TestFlight

Send a build to your iPhone without going through App Store review.

Apple key with Admin access

Fix “Only Team Admins can create Distribution certificates” in 5 minutes: create an App Store Connect key with Admin access.

Apple in-app purchase key

The one purchase setting Apple keeps for you: generate the key and give it to RevenueCat, so every purchase is recorded.

Send your first subscription for review

Apple reviews your first subscription together with your app. Here is the 2-minute step on App Store Connect: Bloxks does the rest.

Frequently asked questions

No. Bloxks builds your app in the cloud and sends it to Apple for you.

An individual account sells under your own legal name, visible on the App Store; a company account needs a free D-U-N-S number, which can take up to two weeks. See Set up your Apple account.

99 USD a year, paid to Apple, whatever tool you use. It goes to Apple directly, not to Bloxks. Apple then takes a commission on sales: 30%, or 15% with the Small Business Program.

Your key does not have the right access level. Create a new one with Admin access: Apple key with Admin access.

Usually 24 to 48 hours. If it is rejected, Bloxks explains the reason and what to change.