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What is an organisation and what is a workspace?

Your organisation is the top-level account for your whole business; workspaces are the separate planning environments underneath it – each with its own Planner, job roles, venues and shifts.

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Written by Carla

⚠️ This article is for the new version of the platform ⚠️
If you are on the old version of the platform, you can find relevant articles here.

Your organisation

The organisation is the top level everything else sits under – your workspaces, brands, payment methods, and users. A few things always live at organisation level, shared across all your workspaces:

  • Legal entities and payment methods – set up once; each workspace simply selects which one applies to it.

  • Brands – created once, then linked to whichever workspaces need them.

  • Organisation-level worker pools – can be shared across the workspaces you choose, managed centrally by an Organisation Admin.

  • The Organisation Admin role – has full control across every workspace in the organisation.


Your workspaces

A workspace is a separate planning environment within your organisation, with its own Planner, job roles, venues and shifts. Each workspace has its own:

  • Linked brand, preferred language, payment setting, night hours window, expenses setting, and tags.

These are fully independent per workspace – two workspaces in the same organisation can use completely different brands or languages.


Switching between them

  • Use the switcher in the top bar to jump between organisations and workspaces.

  • In Settings, you'll find two separate groups: Workspace (Venues, Job roles) and Organisation (Users, Workspaces, Tags, Brands, Organisation, Payment) – this split mirrors exactly what lives at each level.

  • Worker pools have their own Workspace / Organisation toggle, since pools can be created at either level.


Users and roles

Each person has one profile per organisation, but can hold different roles at different levels:

  • Organisation Admin applies across the whole organisation.

  • Workspace Admin, Staffing Manager, and Shift Supervisor are assigned per workspace – the same person can hold different roles in different workspaces. See Managing users for what each role can do.


Good to know

  • A new workspace's payment method starts out as your organisation's default, but from then on you can change it for that workspace independently.

  • Some organisation-level fields – like legal entity details and night hours – are managed by Coople on your behalf.

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