Managing organization settings

You can verify the domains controlled by your organization to confirm your organization's identity on GitHub.

If your project or company has changed names, you can update the name of your organization to match.

To make someone else the owner of an organization account, you must add a new owner, ensure that the billing information is updated, and then remove yourself from the account.

To protect your organization's data, you can configure permissions for creating repositories in your organization.

You can allow organization members with admin permissions to a repository to delete or transfer the repository, or limit the ability to delete or transfer repositories to organization owners only.

To protect your organization's data, you can configure permissions for changing repository visibility in your organization.

You can can allow or prevent the forking of any private and internal repositories owned by your organization.

Organization owners can disable, enable, and limit GitHub Actions for an organization.

You can configure the retention period for GitHub Actions artifacts and logs in your organization.

To protect your organization's data and the number of paid licenses used in your organization, you can allow only owners to invite outside collaborators to organization repositories.

Organization owners can allow certain people to delete issues in repositories owned by your organization.

You can choose the permission levels that members require to create discussions in repositories owned by your organization.

You can allow all organization members to create teams or limit team creation to organization owners.

You can get reminders in Slack for all pull requests that teams in your organization have been requested to review.

You can set the default branch name for repositories that members create in your organization on GitHub.

You can customize the labels that are included in every new repository in your organization.

You can allow all organization members to view dependency insights for your organization or limit viewing to organization owners.

You can allow members of your organization to see a comment author's profile name in private repositories in the organization.

You can manage the email address that receives updates from accounts your organization sponsors.

You can prevent members of your organization from publishing GitHub Pages sites from repositories in the organization.

When you delete an organization, all repositories, forks of private repositories, wikis, issues, pull requests, and Project or Organization Pages are deleted as well. The organization name becomes available for use on a new user or organization account, and your billing will end.

It's not possible to convert an organization into a personal user account, but you can create a new user account and transfer the organization's repositories to it.

Organizations can upgrade from the Standard Terms of Service to the Corporate Terms of Service.