---
title: Organizations and members
description: Sign up, sign in, and invite members.
---

An **organization** is who Subako bills and who signs in. It has a handle, members, a [plan and a credit balance](/console/plan-and-usage), and the [workspaces](/console/workspaces) where the work happens.

## Signing up

Subako Cloud's sign-in page offers **Create an organization**. You sign in with the [Subako account](/console/accounts) that will run the organization — creating one first if you have none — and choose its handle and name. An account you already have works: there is no need for a new one per organization.

![Create your organization: Create an account, or Sign in with an existing account](/blume-assets/content/docs/_images/en/sign-up-start.webp)

The **handle** is lowercase letters, digits, and hyphens, starting and ending with a letter or digit. No two organizations share one, and it cannot be changed. The **name** is what people see, and you can rename it from the **Account** page.

Creating the organization invites the address you signed up with as its first admin; signing in to the organization accepts that invitation.

## Signing in

Type the organization's handle and **Continue**. The console sends you to the organization's sign-in provider and brings you back to the **Account** page. Organizations you signed in to lately are offered as buttons under **Recent organizations**.

![Your account: your name and email, and the organization you act in with your role](/blume-assets/content/docs/_images/en/account.webp)

One Subako account signs in to every organization it belongs to. To work in another, open the account menu at the foot of the sidebar and choose **Switch organization** — see [Your Subako account](/console/accounts).

The same menu sets the console's **Language** — English or 日本語 — which otherwise follows your browser.

## Members and invitations

**Members** lists everyone in the organization and the invitations still open. Admins invite people by address, with a role:

![Members: Alice Anderson as Admin, and an invitation for bob@example.com as Member](/blume-assets/content/docs/_images/en/members.webp)

The invitation admits that address and nobody else. The person joins the first time they sign in to the organization with it — tell them the organization's handle, and send them to [Accepting an invitation](#accepting-an-invitation) below. An invitation not yet accepted can be revoked.

| Role | What it may do |
| --- | --- |
| Admin | Manage the organization's members, invitations, and plan, and reach every workspace without being added to it |
| Member | Use the workspaces they are added to |

Changing someone's role or removing them asks you to confirm. The last admin can be neither demoted nor removed. Removing a member also removes them from the organization's workspaces; API keys they minted keep working until someone revokes them, because a key belongs to its workspace, not to the person who made it.

## Accepting an invitation

This part is for the person who was invited. You need the organization's **handle** — ask whoever invited you — and the email address the invitation was sent to.

1. **Type the organization's handle**

    Open the console's sign-in page at
    [console.us.cloud.subako.ai](https://console.us.cloud.subako.ai) and type
    the handle under **Organization handle**. Do not press **Continue** yet if
    you have no Subako account: a moment after you stop typing, the page offers
    **Create an account** under **Invited, but no account yet?**

    ![The sign-in page with the handle acme typed in: under Continue, “Invited, but no account yet?” offers Create an account](/blume-assets/content/docs/_images/en/invitee-sign-in.webp)

2. **Create an account — or sign in with the one you have**

    - **No Subako account yet:** press **Create an account**, and create it
      with the email address the invitation was sent to.
    - **Already have one** — because you are in another organization, say:
      do not create another. Press **Continue** and sign in with it. One
      account signs in to every organization; see
      [Your Subako account](/console/accounts).

3. **You are in**

    Signing in accepts the invitation: you land on the organization's
    **Account** page, with the role you were invited with.

    ![The Account page after joining: Bob Brown, in Acme Corp, as a Member](/blume-assets/content/docs/_images/en/invitee-joined.webp)

An organization admin then adds you to the workspaces you will work in, on each workspace's **Overview**.

If sign-in says the account is not a member and has no invitation, the address you signed in with is not the invited one: sign in with the invited address, or ask the admin to invite the address you use.