How to view organization owner in Sanity?

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Last updated: Jul 13, 2022
Is there any way to view which account is the owner of an organization?
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Looking at the documentation, you can view organization members and their roles through the manage.sanity.io interface:

  1. Log into manage.sanity.io
  2. Navigate to your organization
  3. Look for the team management or members section

Sanity organizations have different administrative roles including:

  • Organization Administrator: Full management capabilities across all organization settings and projects (this is effectively the highest level of access)
  • Billing Manager: Can handle payment methods and billing information
  • Organization Member: Can be invited to projects within the organization

The documentation from the Organizations guide mentions these roles but doesn't specifically call out a single "owner" designation. Instead, there can be one or more Organization Administrators who have full control.

If you're trying to identify who originally created the organization or who has ultimate authority over it, look for users with the Organization Administrator role. If you need more specific ownership information or can't access the organization settings yourself, I'd recommend contacting Sanity support directly - they can help identify the account structure for your specific organization.

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Hi User. Anyone listed as an Administrator at
<https://www.sanity.io/organizations/><ORG_ID>/members
would be the closest thing to an owner for an organization.
Thanks. It seems that an organization doesn't really have an owner? If I, as the organization owner, have a project that I’ve removed myself from, it seems I don’t have permission to do much of anything. Not even deleting the project.
Still the project might still be getting billed to my organization, which I am pretty powerless to do anything about. I understand that this probably is connected to enforcing the number of seats on a project, but it seems like a bit of an oversight to be honest
From a technical perspective, that’s true, though only a fellow organization administrator can remove you (who we can assume is in that role because they’re trusted) and you can’t remove yourself if you’re the sole admin.
From a practical perspective, we’re here to help should you ever encounter a problem.
All that said, I can’t find any sort of feature request for an org owner, so please feel welcome to add one. It may be something for us to consider down the road.
Thanks for the detailed response. We managed to find a solution, and I always felt secure in that you'd be able to help us out if not. I was just a little surprised that I wasn't able to sort it out as the org owner while the project admin was on vacation.
Ahh, perhaps I misunderstood you originally. There is somewhat of a disconnect between how we implement the role of organization administrator and the common conception of an administrator as someone who oversees all projects. The fact that an org admin has little control over a project can be very puzzling. I’ll add your +1 to this issue internally. Thanks for the feedback, User!
Great, thanks! Feature request is up ā˜ŗļø

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