You assign a product stage to an app when you add a new app version or when you edit a specific version of the app. As a rule, your users can only see the app versions in your app store for which the product stage "stable" has been defined. This corresponds to the application-level permission View and Download Stable Versions. During the development of your app, however, it may be helpful to test unstable versions of your app. You can then grant the application-level permission Download Unstable Versions to your developers so that they can view and download unstable versions from the app store.

By default, Mobile Administrator is delivered with two product stages: a stable product stage with the name "Production" and an unstable product stage with the name "Unstable". You can also define additional product stages, for example, for the different lifecycle stages of your apps such as development or test, where each stage can be defined either as stable or unstable. Or you may want to define both an unstable development stage and a stable development stage.

To manage the product stages, you need the site-level permission Manage Site. See also Overview of Site-Level Permissions.