Apple won't accept my D-U-N-S Number

How recently did you create that DUNS number? Apple only updates it’s database every two weeks or so.

If you want to have a business account under an entity, then you have left the consumer-oriented world. You don’t get instant activation anymore. You wait for months.

ModernAthlete wrote:

Last week, but it said the number already existed?

What is "it"? Are you saying that DUNS said the number already existed? If so, you will need to take that up with Dun & Bradstreet.

Or is that the standard answer if it was just created? So basically I need to wait two weeks and then try again?

Sorry, but nobody know the internals of how Apple operates or what its error messages mean. That two-week time frame is simply the best-guess analysis that people have made from several years ago.

My own experience is that any kind of business-to-business relationship with Apple (or any other company for that matter) runs on a very different schedule and a very different set of expectations than those of consumer relationships.