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Switching organisations

Move between the businesses you belong to, answer an invitation, and add another organisation.

Updated 31 Aug 2026

One person, more than one business. The avatar at the top right holds every organisation you belong to, and the organisation you are acting in decides what the whole console shows you: the pipeline, the contacts, the numbers, all of it.

The account menu open under the avatar, showing the person's name and billing account, then Settings, Help centre and the Organisation row naming Acme Weddings.

The switcher

The Organisation row in the account menu opens a panel beside it, with the current organisation ticked. Choose another and you land on the overview inside it, with the previous organisation's data dropped rather than kept warm.

Organisations are grouped by the billing account that pays for them, because that is the unit you actually own. Past five in one account, a search box appears above the list. Belong to exactly one organisation and the row is not there at all: there is nothing to switch to.

The organisation switcher open beside the account menu, listing Acme Weddings with a tick and Bloom and Twine under the billing account heading.

The acting organisation lives in a cookie, never in the address bar, so a link you copy from one organisation opens the same record for anyone who can see it.

Answering an invitation

An invitation to another business shows up as an Invitations row in the account menu with a count, and only while one is waiting. The notification bell announces it; the menu is where it stays put.

Open invitations
  1. 01

    Each invitation names the organisation, the role you have been offered and the address it was sent to.

  2. 02
    Accept and join adds the membership and switches you straight into that business.
  3. 03
    Decline spends the invitation. Getting back in means being invited again.

Someone signed in with no membership anywhere is sent here first rather than to the wizard, so being invited beats being asked to set up a business of your own.

Adding an organisation

Create organisation in the account menu goes to a shorter version of the onboarding wizard: Business name, Portal URL and And what does this one do on a Saturday?, and that is all. There is no plan step and no team step, because both belong to the account, which already exists. The account picker only appears when you own more than one.

Add an organisation

Only an account owner sees the door. Members of a business they do not own have nothing to add an organisation to.

Worth a look

The plan sets the ceiling

Solo covers one organisation, Studio three, House as many as you like. At the limit the Create organisation button stays disabled and the page says which plan you are on and how many it includes. Moving up is done on the account's plan page: see Plans and billing.

A new organisation starts empty and gets its own portal, pipeline, clients and setup checklist. Nothing is shared across the line except the plan and the bill. Multiple organisations covers what an account owner can see across all of them.

Keep reading
  • Account and billing

    Multiple organisations

    Running more than one business under a single account, and what the plan allows.

  • Account and billing

    Plans and billing

    What each plan covers, how the trial works, and where the card and the invoices live.

  • Team

    Team and roles

    Invite people, give them a role, and decide what each role can reach.