Apple Developer Enterprise Program requirement "Your organization must have 100 or more employees."

Question

I have this scenario and I strugge to find a solution: There's a company with about 30 employees, this company must distribute an in-house iOS app for their employees' devices (iPad). The app must be distribuited through the company website in a restricted area (wireless distribution via an URL).

At first glance, the Apple developer program that best fits this need is the Apple Developer Enterprise Program, that's fine, but if I take a look at the requirements I see this statement "Your organization must have 100 or more employees."

In this case the company has about 30 employees, can it in any case apply for the Apple Developer Enterprise Program?

Is there an alternative way to distribuite an in-house app without the Apple Developer Enterprise Program?

I see that it is possible to use TestFlight or ad-hoc distribution, but they are only intended for testing purposes.

Thanks

Answer 1

At the end I contacted the Apple developers support, for my case they said this:

"In this case your client can normally register with the company program and then join the Apple Business Manager, a program that allows the distribution of apps internally through the use of specific codes."