# Transfer organization ownership

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Action available only for Organization Owner 
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One common example of when organization ownership transfer is needed happens when a user signs up for Coupler.io from their personal email and later wants to transfer it to a work email address.

### Steps to transfer organization ownership <a href="#steps-to-transfer-organization-ownership-7ljai" id="steps-to-transfer-organization-ownership-7ljai"></a>

#### 1. Add the new owner to your organization <a href="#id-1-add-the-new-owner-to-your-organization-lhus5" id="id-1-add-the-new-owner-to-your-organization-lhus5"></a>

As the current organization owner:

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Go to Settings (gear icon in the left sidebar)
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Navigate to "Organization" settings
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Click on the "Organization owners" tab
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Click the "Invite new user" button
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Enter the email address of the person who will become the new owner
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Click "Send invite"
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The new user will have full organization owner access, including billing and all workspaces.

#### 2. Remove the previous owner <a href="#id-3-remove-the-previous-owner-optional-83srz" id="id-3-remove-the-previous-owner-optional-83srz"></a>

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The new owner must do this:

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Go to Settings → Organization → Organization owners tab
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Find the previous owner in the list
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Click the "Remove" icon next to their name
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Select a new owner for all resources of the previous owner (data flows, source and destination connections, dashboards).
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Confirm the removal
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The removed organization owner will lose access to the organization, workspaces, and billing management.

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### What happens to resources owned by the removed organization owner? <a href="#what-happens-to-resources-owned-by-the-removed-organization-owner-8qtzo" id="what-happens-to-resources-owned-by-the-removed-organization-owner-8qtzo"></a>

When removing an organization owner who has created data flows, dashboards, or connections in workspaces, you must reassign their resources to prevent disruption.

#### If the organization owner has no role in some or all workspaces <a href="#if-the-organization-owner-has-active-resources-iao_a" id="if-the-organization-owner-has-active-resources-iao_a"></a>

When you attempt to remove an organization owner who has no workspace-level role in one or more workspaces, you'll see a confirmation popup with a required action to select a new owner for their resources:

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**What you need to do:**

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Select a new owner from the list of users with organization owner role.
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Click "Delete owner."
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All resources (data flows, dashboards, connections) will be transferred to the selected user. The removed user will lose organization owner access but keep any workspace roles they have.

**What gets reassigned:**

* <i class="fa-square-check" style="color:green;">:square-check:</i> Data flows created by the removed owner
* <i class="fa-square-check" style="color:green;">:square-check:</i> Dashboards created by the removed owner
* <i class="fa-square-check" style="color:green;">:square-check:</i> Source connections (e.g., Google Ads, Facebook Ads accounts)
* <i class="fa-square-check" style="color:green;">:square-check:</i> Destination connections (e.g., Google Sheets, BigQuery)
* <i class="fa-square-check" style="color:green;">:square-check:</i> Both private and shared connections

**What is not reassigned:**

* <i class="fa-square-xmark" style="color:red;">:square-xmark:</i> Chats with AI agent

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This reassignment happens across all workspaces where the removed organization owner had no workspace-level role.
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#### If the organization owner has role in all workspaces <a href="#if-the-organization-owner-has-no-role-in-workspaces-7cmi1" id="if-the-organization-owner-has-no-role-in-workspaces-7cmi1"></a>

You will still see a popup to reassign resources - this is more of a safety checkpoint, in case the owner you are removing creates something during the deletion process in a workspace where they have no workspace-level role (for example, creating a new workspace and adding a data flow there).

***

### Alternative: Change role instead of removing organization owner <a href="#alternative-change-role-instead-of-removing-9lbzl" id="alternative-change-role-instead-of-removing-9lbzl"></a>

If you want the person to keep working in specific workspaces without organization-level access:

Before removing them as organization owner:

* Invite them to specific workspaces as Admin, User, or Guest.
* They'll have both an organization role and workspace role(s).

Then remove their organization owner role - they'll retain access to workspaces where they were invited, and their resources will remain under their ownership in those workspaces.

**Steps:**

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Go to workspace settings for each workspace where you want them to keep access.
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Click "Invite new user."
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Enter their email (the same email as their organization owner account).
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Select a role: Admin, User, or Guest.
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Send the invitation.
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Go back to Settings → Organization → Organization owners.
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Remove them as organization owner.&#x20;

*you will still see reassign resources pop-up to cover any race conditions during removal - select yourself and confirm deletion*
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**Result:**

* They keep access to specific workspaces
* They keep ownership of their data flows and connections in those workspaces
* They lose access to billing and organization settings
* They lose access to other workspaces where they weren't invited


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