Memberships
What it means to belong to an organization, how to read your list of memberships and what a personal workspace is.
On this page
An organization is a group your account can belong to, for example a company or a team. Your account stays yours. Membership is a link between your account and an organization, and it is what decides which organizations you can sign in to and what an application can do for you there.
The Memberships page#
- Leave, on the row of an organization you belong to.
Open Organizations in the account navigation. The list is titled Your organizations, with a count in the heading. Each row shows:
- the organization's name and a status badge;
- a line with the kind of organization (Personal workspace, Organization or Platform organization) and your kind of membership (Owner, Member or Guest), and, for an organization under a parent, Part of and the parent's name;
- Sponsored by and a name, for a guest;
- Joined through the verified domain and the domain, when your account joined because its email address is on a domain the organization has verified;
- Access ends and a date, when the membership has an end date;
- Joined, the date you joined, when there is one;
- a note instead of the Leave button when you cannot leave (see Leaving an organization).
Rows are in the order your memberships were created. An empty list says No organizations and that an organization appears here when you accept an invitation to it.
Statuses#
| Status | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Active | You are a member. Only an Active membership has a Leave button. |
| Suspended | The membership exists but is paused. You cannot use it until it is active again. |
| Blocked | The organization requires single sign-on and your account has no linked sign-in through it, so the membership is held. Only an administrator can lift it; see Single sign-on and managed accounts. |
| Removed | The membership ended, because you left or because an administrator removed you. It stays in the list as a record. An administrator has to invite you again for you to rejoin. |
If the platform cannot tell a status, the row says Unknown.
Invitations to join#
When an administrator has invited a verified email address of your account and the invitation is still open, a section titled Invitations to join appears above the list. Each row names the organization, the role when the invitation carries one (Role: and its name), for a guest invitation the terms (Guest access, sponsored by a name, for N days from the day you accept.), and Expires with a date. Accept joins the organization at once; Decline asks Decline this invitation?, says The invitation stops working. An administrator has to invite you again if you change your mind., and ends it on Decline invitation. Only addresses already verified on your account count, so an invitation to an address you have not verified does not appear here. See Accepting an invitation.
When an organization manages your account#
If an organization manages your account, a banner across the top of every account page says (your organization's name) manages this account. Its administrators control your sign-in methods, access tokens and membership. and its row says Managed by this organization with Your organization manages this account, so only its administrators can end this membership. See Single sign-on and managed accounts.