> ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.politicalcomms.com/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Organizations and memberships > Belong to more than one organization, switch between them, invite existing accounts, and manage ownership. ## One login, many organizations Your account is not tied to a single organization. The same login can belong to several: a consultant working with two campaigns, a reseller's staff member helping a client organization, or someone who was invited to a second organization after they were already active in their first. Each organization you belong to is a separate **membership** with its own role and its own brand access. Your permissions in one organization come only from your membership there. Being an owner in one organization never gives you elevated access in another; each membership stands on its own. If you only ever use one organization, nothing here changes for you. Existing accounts keep their current organization as their default and only organization until someone invites them elsewhere. ## Switching organizations If you belong to more than one organization, the account menu in the top right, under your name and email, lists them. Pick one to reload the app in that organization. Everything on screen after you switch, projects, contacts, billing, branding, and users, belongs to the organization you switched to. The dashboard never blends data from two organizations at once. The platform remembers your last-used organization per device sign-in, so the next time you log in on that device, you land back where you left off. ## My Organizations Your Profile page has a **My Organizations** section (`/profile#organizations`) that lists every membership you hold: * A role badge for each organization. * **Current** marks the organization you're viewing right now. * **Default** marks the organization you land in when you sign in. * A **Switch** button to jump to that organization directly from the list. * A **Leave** action for memberships you no longer need. * **Pending invitations**, with **Accept** and **Decline** buttons and an expiry date. An invitation expires 14 days after it's sent. ### Leaving an organization Leaving removes your membership and access to that organization. Two situations stop you, both with a plain explanation instead of a silent failure: * You're the organization's only owner. Transfer ownership to someone else first (see below), then leave. * It's your default organization. Switch your default to a different organization first, then leave. ## Inviting existing accounts On the Users page, anyone with the **Manage members** permission can add people to the organization in two ways. **Invite existing user** is for someone who already has a Political Comms login somewhere else on the platform. Enter their email and pick a role: * If they already belong to an organization in your own hierarchy (for example, a sibling client organization under the same agency), access is granted immediately. No invitation step. * Otherwise, they get a pending invitation: an in-app notification and an email. They accept or decline it from their own Profile page, and it expires after 14 days if they do neither. You can also just create a new user the normal way. If the email you enter already has an account anywhere on the platform, that account is added to your organization the same way an invite would, instead of the signup failing with an "email already in use" error. Either way, the roles available to assign are your organization's roles at or below your own level. The **Owner** role is never assigned through an invite; it only moves through **Transfer ownership** (see below). ### The cross-agency rule There's one limit on who can be added across organizations: a person can be added to an organization in a different top-level hierarchy than one they already belong to only if they hold a manager-or-higher role in the top-level organization of a hierarchy they're already part of. In plain terms: an ordinary agent or viewer at one agency's client organization can't be pulled into a completely unrelated agency's tree just because someone there knows their email. If the rule isn't met, the invite is refused with a message that the user belongs to another organization's hierarchy and can't be added there. This is what keeps one reseller's client staff from ending up inside a different reseller's organizations. The rule doesn't apply within your own hierarchy: parent and sibling organizations under the same top-level agency can freely add each other's people. ## Transfer ownership Every organization needs exactly one owner. On the Users page, **Transfer ownership** moves the Owner role from you to another member of the organization in a single step: they become the owner, and your role changes to the one the transfer specifies. Use this before leaving an organization where you're the only owner. ## View As and platform staff Platform staff (Political Comms super-admins) and agency admins using **View As** to see the dashboard as one of their users now pick both the person and the organization when that person belongs to more than one. This matters more now that a single account can hold memberships across several organizations. The organization you pick determines which role and brand access View As inherits. Platform staff status itself is a global account flag set by Political Comms, not a role you can grant to someone through Users or invitations.