Organisations, Teams and Access Roles

How to manage your organisation, teams, and control who can access your boards.


Organisations

An organisation is the top-level container for your boards, members, and teams. All boards belong to an organisation, and every user is always working within one.

Your first organisation

When you create your account, a personal organisation is set up for you automatically (e.g. "Alice's Organisation"). You can rename it at any time from the organisation settings page.

Switching organisations

If you belong to more than one organisation, use the organisation switcher in the sidebar header to switch between them. The switcher shows the name and initials of your active organisation. Clicking it reveals a dropdown with all your organisations.

Organisation settings

From Settings > Organisation you can:


Members and Roles

Every person in your organisation is a member with one of three roles:

Role What they can do
Owner Full control. Manage members, teams, settings, billing, and delete the organisation. Automatically has full access to all boards.
Admin Same as owner except they cannot delete the organisation or manage billing. Automatically has full access to all boards.
Member Standard access. Can only access boards they have been explicitly granted access to (via a direct grant, a team grant, or an organisation-wide grant).

Inviting members

Owners and admins can invite new people from Settings > Members:

  1. Enter the email address of the person you want to invite
  2. Choose a role (member, admin, or owner)
  3. Click Send invitation

The invitee receives an email with a link to accept the invitation. They can also see pending invitations inside the app if they already have an account.

Managing members

From the members page, owners and admins can:


Teams

Teams are named groups within your organisation. They let you share boards with a group of people at once instead of adding members one by one.

Creating a team

From Settings > Teams, owners and admins can create a new team by entering a name and clicking Create.

Managing team members

Click on a team to expand it and see its members. From the expanded view you can:

Renaming and deleting teams

Owners and admins can rename a team by clicking Rename in the expanded team view, or delete it with the Delete team button.


Board Sharing and Permissions

By default, only the person who creates a board has access. To let others view or edit a board, you share it by granting access.

How to share a board

  1. Open the board
  2. Click the Share button in the header (visible if you have sharing permission)
  3. In the share dialog:
    • Choose who to share with: a specific Member, a Team, or the entire Organisation
    • Select from the dropdown
    • Choose a permission level
    • Click Grant

Permission levels

Permissions are cumulative - each level includes everything below it:

Permission What it allows
Read View the board and its tasks. Cannot make any changes.
Edit Everything in Read, plus create, modify, and delete tasks and lanes.
Share (team) Everything in Edit, plus grant access to team members.
Share (org) Everything in Share (team), plus grant access to any organisation member or team.

How permissions are resolved

When you access a board, the system checks multiple sources and gives you the highest permission found:

  1. Organisation role: Owners and admins automatically get full access (Share org) to all boards in their organisation
  2. Direct grant: A grant given specifically to you
  3. Team grants: A grant given to any team you belong to
  4. Organisation grant: A grant given to the entire organisation

Read-only access

If your highest permission on a board is Read:

Removing access

From the share dialog, anyone with sharing permission can remove existing grants by clicking the remove button next to each entry.


Quick Reference

I want to... Where to go
Invite someone to my organisation Settings > Members
Create a team Settings > Teams
Share a board with a team Open the board > Share button
See who has access to a board Open the board > Share button
Change someone's organisation role Settings > Members
Rename my organisation Settings > Organisation
Switch to a different organisation Sidebar header (organisation switcher)