Anyone from Apple here? It's impossible to enroll the dev program
I tried multiple times and it's the same problem: "we have been unable to obtain payment for your recent Apple Developer purchase."
I used the same card that I use to to buy apps from the app store - and I tried with other cards too but with no success.
And I'm not the only one... https://developer.apple.com/forums/thread/126314?page=25
The bank says that they didn't get any payment requests, so the problem seems to be at Apple.
A bit if a tangent, but a company I worked with recently had an issue enrolling in the Enterprise dev program.
It's a large company with thousands of employees, so definitely enterprise scale. They heard nothing for months after applying, and weren't able to find any way to chase the application. Eventually Apple got back to them to say the company didn't meet the Enterprise program requirements. The company asked which requirement they didn't meet, because it was plain that they did in fact meet all the requirements - Apple wouldn't say! They said their decision was final, and they wouldn't say why.
Absolutely crazy.
Yes!!! I thought I was going crazy. My registration got stuck at the payment screen even though I can buy other content from iTunes. I’ve contacted Apple support more than a dozen times in a span of two weeks. I was given conflicting information by different representatives. For example one told me to create a new Apple ID and register again. Then when that failed I was told it was because I had two accounts that tried to register with the same drivers’ license. At some point I think I triggered some anti-fraud mechanism because I can’t even get past the license agreement screen anymore and they told me basically that they’ll “review” the case and get back to me. Haven’t heard back in 3 weeks since.
You are not the only one, it tooks me weeks to get an account setup, I kept getting the same error message as you even after trying multiple good credit cards.
After contacting support several times, we were finally able to get me signed up by enrolling via the iOS developer app.
It was a very painful, time wasting process!
I'd be surprised if anyone from Apple would reply here. The problem seems to be with the payment processing, so a quick call to their support would yield faster resolution. Sometimes they have asked my card details over the phone to renew my membership, so you could request a callback.
What did Apple say when you contacted them? The dev phone support with real people has always been quite good for me, or the general Apple online support system or their Twitter support system? As those methods would probably be the most helpful since they would be able to see what’s going on with your particular account.
This ended up happening to me recently (about a month ago), too. I ended up having to enroll via the app on iOS versus through the website on desktop. I was in contact w/ the support folks and they were fairly helpful. Could be worth reaching out.
Have you tried contacting Apple customer service?
Yes, I had similar experience. It's because apple system, the manager told me. They suggested to transfer (wire) the money so they could do manually. I refused, so it took me like 2-3 weeks to wait the system resolved.
After that, I applied again with other company, It's fast enough only took 3 days
I just dealt with a similar issue. It took about a week with multiple back and forths, and then they just said "Try again, it should work". And it did. I bet after WWDC they get a much larger volume of registrations that they really inspect carefully.
I've been there and here is what worked for me.
I've created a new test account on my machine using an alias for my gmail address.
From that account with that email alias I was able to register into the dev program.
Back in my day all you had to do was to send Apple a fax. Good ol' days.
I had a recent similar problem. Multiple levels of support were clueless. Ended up being due to an iCloud outage that resolved itself.
Horrific developer experience over there at Apple.
I've been wondering about this! I tried multiple cards and even a privacy.com card and they all appeared to go through but never charged my card.
I've seen the same issue in the last 2 weeks pop up multiple times in the iOS dev slack channel and a few relevant subreddits.
Why would you want to jailbreak? Asking apple for a dev account and side loading every few days is so easy!
You've got to use an Apple Card. Don't you understand?