When you hire a mobile app developer in Lebanon, keep two things in your own name from day one: the app store accounts (Apple and Google Play) and the code repository. The developer works as a user added to your accounts, so if you part ways the app, its updates and its reviews stay with you and not with anyone else.
Need an app developer? See mobile app developers in Lebanon and what the work includes, or ask Furrsati for three hand-checked names.
1. Open the developer accounts in your company's name
An app is published from a developer account. If the developer publishes from their own account, the app stays tied to them. Open both accounts under your name or your company and add the developer as a user with the permissions the work needs. Opening and verifying an account takes time, so start it while the work begins.
2. Keep the code in a repository you own
Ask the developer to work in a repository (GitHub or similar) under an account you own, not to send you a file at the end. You see progress as it happens and can hand the code to another developer if you need to.
3. List the services the app depends on
Write down the server and hosting, the domain, push notifications, sign-in, payments and maps. For each one: whose name the account is in and who pays the subscription. Ask for passwords and keys to be shared in a safe way, not as plain text in a chat.
4. Agree what you receive at handover
Agree at the start: the full code, the design files, a written note on how to run the app and publish a new version, and a list of accounts and keys. Agree too what happens if Apple or Google rejects the app: who fixes it and how fast.
5. Put it in writing
State in the contract or project description who owns the work after payment. This is not legal advice: for a large contract, ask a lawyer. To prepare, read how to write a mobile app brief, what a mobile app costs in Lebanon for how the work is priced, and the app store listing in Arabic and English. This guide states no prices: ask for a written quote that lists the work.
On Furrsati, funded milestone money is held and released when you approve the work, or automatically 10 days after delivery.
How this was made: written by the Furrsati team with AI assistance. It is a list of things to agree, not legal advice, and it contains no prices or statistics.