# Work across workspaces and organisations

Switch between workspaces, create more, and use an organisation to manage client sites.

For: Freelancers, agencies and anyone with more than one workspace

## Switching and creating workspaces

The switcher at the top of the menu lists every workspace your account can reach, including personal ones and organisation workspaces. Switching changes everything: websites, media and people belong to a workspace and never leak between them.

New workspace starts a fresh one, which is right for genuinely separate work: a personal project, a side business, a test space. It is wrong for a second website for the same business, which belongs in the same workspace.

Walkthrough: The workspace switcher (The workspace menu)

1. **The list of workspaces**: Personal and organisation workspaces together. Switching changes everything behind it.
2. **One workspace at a time**: Websites, media and people belong to one workspace and never leak between them.

1. Open the switcher and look at the list.
2. Name new workspaces after what they are for.
3. Keep one workspace per business, not one per website.

## Organisations for groups

An organisation groups workspaces under one arrangement: client workspaces, shared templates, one bill. It is built for agencies and multi-site businesses, where six client websites should not mean six separate subscriptions managed by hand.

From the organisation console, people are invited at the organisation level, templates are shared across every client workspace, and the organisation can pay for client workspaces by buying their licences, with the agency discount measured across the group.

Walkthrough: The organisation console (The organisation console)

1. **The console**: Client workspaces, people, shared templates, settings and billing, for the whole group.
2. **Client workspaces**: Each client keeps their own workspace to work in; the arrangement lives above them.
3. **People at the organisation level**: Invite colleagues once and give them the client workspaces they need.
4. **Shared templates**: One good starting point, available to every client workspace without copying files around.
5. **One bill**: The organisation buys the licences of the client workspaces it pays for, with the discount measured across the group.

Note: Client permissions and isolation are unchanged by any of this. An organisation changes the arrangement, not what a client workspace can see.

## Where each thing lives

Websites, media, people and licences belong to a workspace. Templates can belong to an organisation. Your account, sign-in and appearance follow you everywhere.

When something seems missing after a switch, check the switcher first: nine times in ten, the answer is the other workspace.

Walkthrough: Where each thing lives (The workspace menu)

1. **Workspace things**: People, licences, billing and the workspace name live in Settings, inside each workspace.
2. **Account things**: When something seems missing after a switch, check the switcher first. Nine times in ten it is the other workspace.

Warning: Deleting a workspace deletes its websites. Move what matters to another workspace first, using the website file for anything you want to keep.

## Does each workspace need its own plan?

Plans come as licences, one for each website: a workspace holds as many licences as it has websites to publish. An organisation can buy the licences of the workspaces it pays for.

## Can I move a website between workspaces?

Download it as a file from one and import it into the other, which copies the pages, sections and theme.

## Related guides

- [Cards, invoices and several websites](/help/plans-and-billing/pay-for-several-websites)
- [Import and export a website](/help/templates/import-and-export-a-website)
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