Plan for migration to Apps and Books in Apple Business Manager
To get started migrating, Content Managers with Volume Purchase Programme (VPP) accounts must migrate their licences to a location in Apps. For the best migration experience, organisations should map each buyer to a unique location to ensure that all licenses (assigned and unassigned) are automatically moved during the initial migration. It is recommended that you move all Content Managers at the same time. This can be done by each Content Manager, or by any user with the role of Administrator with access to all accounts.
After migration, licenses are associated with the location they migrated to rather than with the buyer’s legacy token. If a Content Manager migrates to a location that already contains licences, only their unassigned licences are moved to that location in the initial migration phase. (This process avoids any disruption to licence assignments in device management.) Assigned licenses remain associated with the buyer’s legacy token. After these licences are unassigned in device management, they can be moved to a location in the Apps section of Preferences.
If a Content Manager account has VPP credit associated with it, the credit remains associated with that buyer. VPP credit is not transferred to the selected location. See Purchase VPP credit.