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Article version: Enterprise Server 2.18

Inviting people to manage your enterprise account

You can invite people to become enterprise owners or billing managers in your enterprise account. You can also remove enterprise owners or billing managers who no longer need access to the enterprise account.

Enterprise accounts are available with GitHub Enterprise Cloud and GitHub Enterprise Server.

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About inviting people to manage your enterprise account

Currently, there are two administrative roles available in enterprise accounts: enterprise owners, who can access and manage all settings across the account, and billing managers, who can access and manage only the enterprise account's billing settings. Enterprise owners can also see all of the members and outside collaborators for every organization owned by the enterprise account. For more information, see "Roles for an enterprise account."

Tip: For more information on managing users within an organization owned by your enterprise account, see "Managing membership in your organization" and "Managing people's access to your organization with roles."

Inviting an enterprise administrator to your enterprise account

Only enterprise owners can invite other people to become enterprise administrators.

After you invite someone to join the enterprise account, they must accept the emailed invitation before they can access the enterprise account.

  1. Navigate to your enterprise account by visiting https://github.com/enterprises/ENTERPRISE-NAME, replacing ENTERPRISE-NAME with your enterprise account's name.
  2. In the enterprise account sidebar, click People.
    People tab in the enterprise account sidebar
  3. In the left sidebar, click Administrators.
    Administrators tab in the left sidebar
  4. Above the list of administrators, click Invite admin.
    Invite admin button above the list of enterprise owners
  5. Type the username, full name, or email address of the person you want to invite to become an enterprise administrator, then select the appropriate person from the results.
    Modal box with field to type a person's username, full name, or email address, and Invite button
  6. Select Owner or Billing Manager.
    Modal box with role choices
  7. Click Send Invitation.
    Send invitation button

Removing an enterprise administrator from your enterprise account

Only enterprise owners can remove other enterprise administrators from the enterprise account.

  1. Navigate to your enterprise account by visiting https://github.com/enterprises/ENTERPRISE-NAME, replacing ENTERPRISE-NAME with your enterprise account's name.
  2. In the enterprise account sidebar, click People.
    People tab in the enterprise account sidebar
  3. Next to the username of the person you'd like to remove, click , then click Remove owner or Remove billing manager.
    Settings gear with menu option to remove an enterprise administrator

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