# What is an Organisation?

In Lalabase, an organisation is a fully self-contained space: its own members, its own roles,
its own search, its own data. None of it is visible or shared across organisations. Think of
two organisations as two completely separate companies — what happens in one stays there.

## One account, multiple organisations

The same user account can be a member of several organisations — each with a different role.
In one you might be an administrator, in another a member with read-only access. You switch
between your organisations without signing in again.

To do so, click your organisation's name at the top of the sidebar: a menu lists your
organisations — one click switches straight over, and the current one carries a check mark.
**All organisations** additionally opens the [cockpit](https://lalabase.com/docs/en/guides/dashboards/cockpit-overview) across
all of them.

## Invitations and accounts

If you invite an email address that already has a Lalabase account, that person is simply added
to your organisation with their existing account — they accept the invitation with the
credentials they already use. If the address has no account yet, a new, separate account is
created for it.

<div class="docs-callout docs-callout--warning">
  <div class="docs-callout__title">Invite the right address</div>
  <p>Invite exactly the email address the person wants tied to their Lalabase identity. The wrong address creates a second, disconnected account — and accounts cannot be merged later.</p>
</div>

People who sign up themselves rather than being invited confirm their email address first —
see [Confirming your email address](https://lalabase.com/docs/en/guides/basics/confirm-email).

## Renaming your organisation

Under **Settings → Name/Domain** you change your organisation's display name. The name appears
throughout the app and in invitations. It must be **unique across the whole system**: if another
organisation already uses the same name, the change is rejected — pick a more distinctive spelling
in that case. Only account administrators can change the name.

A domain field isn't available here yet; custom access domains are on hold.

## What's next

Once you know how organisations work, set up your work — see
[Create your first project](https://lalabase.com/docs/en/guides/basics/first-project).