Managing organizations

Admins and agents in custom roles with permission can manage
organizations by viewing and editing organization settings, manually adding end users to
organizations, and deleting organizations as needed. You must be an admin to manage
organization assignments for agents.
Topics covered in this article:
Editing an organization
Manually adding users to an
organization
Restricting agents to an
organization
Creating views by organization
Deleting an organization


Related articles:

About the Organizations page



Editing an organization

You can edit an organization's settings as needed. You must be an administrator or an agent in a custom role with permission to edit organizations.

To edit an organization
In Support, click the
Organizations icon ( ) in the sidebar.
Find the organization you want to edit and click its name.
Make your edits. Your updates are saved automatically.






Manually adding users to an organization

You can add team members and end users to an organization at the time they are created or
later by editing their profile. You can also include users' organizations when importing new users in a bulk import operation.
You must be an admin to manage organization assignments for agents. Admins and agents in custom roles with permission can add end users to
organizations.
On Team plans, users can belong to only one organization. On all other plans, you can enable multiple organizations for users, allowing users to belong
to up to 300 organizations. However, a user doesn't have to belong to any organization.

To add a new user to an organization
In Support, click the
Organizations icon ( ) in the sidebar.
Find the organization you want to add a new user to and click the organization's
name.
Click the drop-down icon at the top-right of the page and select Add user.
Enter a Name and Email address.
Select a User type and then click Add. The user’s profile page
appears, where you can enter any other required information.




To add an existing user to an organization

Navigate to a user's profile in Zendesk Support (see Viewing a user's profile in Zendesk
Support).
In the Org field, start entering an organization name.
Select the organization name from the suggested matches. Your update is saved
automatically.



If you add users to multiple organizations, see Managing users in multiple organizations.



Restricting agents to an organization

One of the options you have for managing ticket workflow and controlling agent access to
tickets is to add them directly to an organization and then restrict their access privileges
to that organization. You must be an administrator to set this up.
On Enterprise plans, you can restrict access to an organization for all agents in a custom
role, but you can't restrict access on an individual agent level.

To restrict agents in a custom role to an organization (Enterprise)

Create or edit a custom agent role and set ticket
access to Requested by end users in this agent's organization. You can restrict a
custom role to one or multiple organizations.


On Team, Growth, and Professional plans, when you restrict agent access to tickets within
their organization, those agents can no longer update end user information or add end users
to tickets, and they can't view end user information on the Customers page.

To restrict an agent to an organization (Team, Growth, and Professional)
In Admin Center, click

People in the sidebar, then select Team > Team members.
Click the agent that you want to edit, then, on the agent's page, click Manage in
Support.
Under Access, select Tickets in agent's org.

Under Org, select the name of the organization, or you can enter a new
one. If you are on the Growth or Professional plan, you can add more than one org,
if you want to restrict the agent's access to multiple organizations.
Your
update is saved automatically, so when you are finished you can navigate
away.



Regardless of the groups they belong to, agents will only have access to the organization's
tickets.

Note: Notwithstanding ticket access restrictions, CC'ing an agent on any ticket lets the agent
receive email notifications of all public and private updates to the ticket.



Creating views by organization

You can use organizations when creating views and business rules.
For example, a common use for organizations in a view is to monitor ticket activity.

This view displays unsolved tickets that are assigned to an organization named
Customers.



Deleting an organization

You can delete an organization as needed. You must be an administrator or agent in a custom role with permission to delete
organizations.

Note: When you delete an organization, any business rules you set up using
the organization you deleted will no longer function properly.

To delete an organization

In Support, click the
Organizations icon ( ) in the sidebar.
Find the organization you want to edit and then click on the organization's name.
Click the options arrow in the upper right, then select Delete.

Confirm that you want to delete the organization. Any users that were assigned to the
organization will be removed from the organization (since it doesn't exist anymore)
and the organization will be removed from any tickets it was assigned to. Any business
rules you set up using the organization you deleted will no longer function
properly.





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