Vendor ID

Hello sraquinn,

Thank you for posting in the Apple Support Communities. I found some information in the iTunes Producer User Guide that might help:

Note: iTP automatically generates the Vendor ID. iTP creates an iTunes Store Package (iTP package) for your book using the Vendor ID and a .itmsp extension. To manually edit the Vendor ID, choose iTunes Producer > Preferences, click Publication, and then choose “Editable before delivery”.

I found this information on page 25 of the iTunes Producer User Guide:

Using iTunes Producer 2.9 for Books

https://itunesconnect.apple.com/docs/UsingiTunesProducerPaidBooks.pdf

I hope this helps!

Best,

Sheila M.

My attempt to publish an iBook resulted in the name of my file - a complicated name- being assigned to my Apple vendor ID. I could not change it. I hope this answer works for me too.

Vendor ID .. a complicated name????

Unless its been changed in the past few months, a vendor ID looks like this:- 10000123456.itmsp

Thank you! Thank you!

I put my ISBN in the appropriate field and the Vendor ID disappeared. So I temporarily removed the ISBN to create the Vendor ID. I then made the above mentioned change to the preferences. That then made the Vendor ID field fillable and I pasted in the previously generated Vendor ID. This too care of my error message that I was missing a vendor ID.

Thanks for the help Sheila_M!

The last book I delivered, after the recent updates to iTC and iTP - created "mybook .itmsp" ie the title I gave the book rather than a long number.