Setting up an organization

There are three ways to add organizations to your enterprise.

• Create a new organization in your enterprise.
• Invite an existing organization to join your enterprise.
• Transfer an existing organization between enterprise accounts.

If you chose an enterprise with personal accounts, to learn how to add an existing organization to your enterprise, see Adding organizations to your enterprise. If you chose an enterprise with Enterprise Managed Users, it is not possible to invite or transfer an existing organization.

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.

Next steps

1. To learn how to invite or transfer an existing organization to your enterprise, see Adding organizations to your enterprise.
2. After you create or add an organization to your enterprise, learn how to manage organization members. See Managing organization members.