Managing support entitlements for your enterprise

You can grant enterprise members the ability to manage support tickets for your enterprise account.

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About support entitlements

People with support entitlements for your enterprise account can use the support portal to open, view, and comment on support tickets associated with the enterprise account.

Enterprise owners and billing managers automatically have a support entitlement. Enterprise owners can add support entitlements to a limited number of enterprise members.

  • Premium plan: Up to 20 members
  • Premium Plus plan / GitHub Engineering Direct: Up to 40 members

Adding a support entitlement to an enterprise member

To add a support entitlement to a user, the user must already be a member of an organization that is owned by your enterprise.

Note: After you add a support entitlement, the enterprise member may need to sign out from GitHub Support portal, then sign in again, before they can manage tickets.

  1. In the top-right corner of GitHub, click your profile photo.
  2. Depending on your environment, click Your enterprise, or click Your enterprises then click the enterprise you want to view.
  3. On the left side of the page, in the enterprise account sidebar, click Settings.
  4. Under "Settings", click Support.
  5. In the search bar, start typing the name or username of the person you want to give a support entitlement. Click their name in the list of matches.
  6. Click Add support entitlement.

Removing a support entitlement from an enterprise member

When a user is removed from the enterprise, their support entitlement will be automatically removed.

If a user remains an enterprise member, you can manually remove their support entitlement. You cannot remove a support entitlement from enterprise owners or billing managers.

  1. In the top-right corner of GitHub, click your profile photo.
  2. Depending on your environment, click Your enterprise, or click Your enterprises then click the enterprise you want to view.
  3. On the left side of the page, in the enterprise account sidebar, click Settings.
  4. In the sidebar under "Settings", click Support.
  5. Under "Support members", to the right of the person you want to remove a support entitlement from, click .

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