SkieWhat is the organisation app store, and what do Draft and Publish mean?
The organisation app store is your organisation's own set of apps, drawn from the Skie catalog or added by Play link. New or changed entries start as Draft, visible only to admins. Publish makes them available for app lists and groups. This lets you prepare changes quietly and release them when you are ready.
The store is the middle layer between the global catalog and your app lists. You bring in the apps you want your organisation to be able to use, set their details, and keep them there. An app list can then be built only from apps in the store.
Draft and Publish give you control over timing. While an entry is Draft, you can edit its name, category and age band without anyone else seeing a half-finished app. When you press Publish, it becomes available to attach to lists. Nothing reaches a student device just because an app is in the store; the app list and group attachment decide that.
That separation is useful in practice. A school can load the whole next term's apps as drafts over the holidays, review them with teachers, then publish on the first day. If an app turns out to be unsuitable, you leave it as a draft or remove it from the store rather than rushing a fix on live devices.
Apps that you added yourself may need Skie approval before they can be published, while catalog apps are already reviewed. A practical tip is to keep a short checklist for publishing: correct category, correct age band, the right Play link, and one named person who signs off. Then use the impact preview when you add the new app to a list.