Converting a user into an organization

Prerequisites

The personal account you want to convert cannot be a member of any organizations. If the personal account you want to convert is a member of an organization, you must leave the organization before you can convert the account.

Keep your personal account and create a new organization manually

If you want your organization to have the same name that you are currently using for your personal account, or if you want to keep your personal account's information intact, then you must create a new organization and transfer your repositories to it instead of converting your personal account into an organization.

1. To retain your current personal account name for your personal use, change the name of your personal account to something new and wonderful.
2. Create a new organization with the original name of your personal account.
3. Transfer your repositories to your new organization account.

Convert your personal account into an organization automatically

You can also convert your personal account directly into an organization. Converting your account:

• Preserves the repositories as they are without the need to transfer them to another account manually
• Automatically invites collaborators to teams with permissions equivalent to what they had before
• For personal accounts on GitHub Pro, automatically transitions billing to the paid GitHub Team without the need to re-enter payment information, adjust your billing cycle, or double pay at any time

When you convert a personal account into an organization, we'll add collaborators on repositories that belong to the account to the new organization as outside collaborators. You can then invite outside collaborators to become members of your new organization if you wish. For more information, see Roles in an organization.

1. Create a new personal account, which you'll use to sign into GitHub and access the organization and your repositories after you convert.
2. Leave any organizations the personal account you're converting has joined.
3. In the upper-right corner of any page on GitHub, click your profile photo, then click Settings.
4. In the "Access" section of the sidebar, click Organizations.
5. In the "Transform account" section, click Turn USERNAME into an organization.
6. Review the warning, then click Turn USERNAME into an organization.
7. Under "Choose an organization owner", type either the secondary personal account you created in the previous section, or another user you trust, to manage the organization.
8. Choose your new organization's subscription and enter your billing information, if prompted.
9. Click Create Organization.
10. Sign in to the new personal account you created earlier, then use the context switcher to access your new organization.

Further reading

• Organizing members into teams

• Inviting users to join your organization

• Accessing an organization