Setting up an organization

During a trial, there are two ways to add organizations to your enterprise.

• Create a new organization in your enterprise, or
• Invite an existing organization to join your enterprise.

If you chose an enterprise with Enterprise Managed Users, it is not possible to invite an existing organization. See Adding organizations to your enterprise

Creating a new organization

New organizations you create within your enterprise account settings are included in your enterprise account's GitHub Enterprise Cloud subscription.

Enterprise owners who create an organization owned by the enterprise account automatically become organization owners. See Roles in an organization.

During a trial of GitHub Enterprise Cloud, you can create up to three new organizations in your enterprise.

1. In the top-right corner of GitHub, click your profile photo.
2. Depending on your environment, click Your enterprise, or click Your enterprises then click the enterprise you want to view.
3. In the left sidebar, click Organizations.
4. Above the list of organizations, click New organization.
5. Under "Organization name", type a name for your organization.
6. Click Create organization.
7. Optionally, under "Invite owners", type the username of a person you'd like to invite to become an organization owner, then click Invite.
8. Click Finish.

Inviting an existing organization

Enterprise owners can invite existing organizations to join their enterprise account.

During a trial of GitHub Enterprise Cloud, you can invite organizations to join your trial enterprise. You can invite organizations that are not currently owned by another enterprise. If an organization you want to invite is already owned by another enterprise, you cannot invite it to your trial enterprise.

After you invite the organization, and before an owner approves the invitation, you can cancel or resend the invitation at any time.

1. In the top-right corner of GitHub, click your profile photo.
2. Depending on your environment, click Your enterprise, or click Your enterprises then click the enterprise you want to view.
3. In the left sidebar, click Organizations.
4. Above the list of organizations, click Invite organization.
5. Under "Organization name", start typing the name of the organization you want to invite and select it when it appears in the dropdown list.
6. Click Invite organization. The organization owners will receive an email inviting them to join the enterprise.
7. After an organization owner has approved the invitation, navigate back to the Organizations tab of the enterprise settings.
8. Under "Organizations", click X pending.
9. To complete the transfer, next to the organization name, click Approve.

Next steps

After you create or add an organization to your enterprise, learn how to manage organization members. See Managing organization members.