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Setting up an organisation

Setting up an organisation

A Teams licence belongs to an organisation, not to the person who pays for it, so the organisation comes first: create it, license it, invite people, add a team.

An organisation whose licence is not active is read-only. It refuses invitations, new teams, subdomain changes, settings edits and publishing, and each refusal says why. It still lets you buy the licence.

1
Create the organisation

Dashboard → Settings → Teams & orgs → New organization. The Create new menu has the same entry. Give it a name and a slug. The slug becomes its URL, blueprintr.io/orgs/<slug>. Description and website are optional. Creating an organisation is free, and you become its owner.

2
Buy the licence

Open the organisation, choose Settings, then Billing. On the Teams plan card set Seats, then choose Subscribe for the monthly or the yearly plan. Checkout takes a card and your acceptance of the terms. Only the organisation's owners and admins can do this, and the seat count cannot be lower than its current membership. You count as one.

The same controls are on Dashboard → Licensing & Billing under Your organisations.

3
Confirm the licence landed

Payment returns you to the Billing page. Within a few seconds the Teams plan card changes from No active plan to the number of seats you bought. Refresh if it has not. Plan & seats and License, in the same settings, show seat usage and the licence history.

4
Invite people

Settings → Manage members → Invite by email. Each member takes a seat, and a pending invitation reserves one until it is accepted, revoked or expires. Seats are changed from Licensing & Billing, not from the members page.

5
Add a team

Settings → Teams → New team. A team has its own members and its own content, and inherits the organisation's licence. Add one when a group needs its own content boundary. Projects belong in portfolios instead.

If you signed up from the Team plan on the pricing page, Blueprintr remembers that for a week. Finishing your profile takes you straight to New organization, creating the organisation opens its Billing page, and until a plan is active the dashboard shows a strip with the next step: Create organisation while you own none, or Subscribe for the organisation you already own.

If Blueprintr granted your licence by hand rather than through Checkout, the dashboard shows a You're licensed for Teams strip with a Create organisation link instead. Create the organisation, then send support its slug. Support attaches the licence.

After the licence

Members and invitations

Roles, seats, and what removing someone takes with it.

Subdomains and custom domains

Give the organisation its own address.

Foliums

Documentation sites are organisation-owned and need the licence.