Starting September 3, 2024 enterprise customers who currently have a single organization without an enterprise account will be automatically upgraded into an enterprise account at no additional cost. An enterprise account will be created for you, and your organization will become the first member organization.
In April 2023, we introduced enterprise accounts for all new enterprise customers. We outlined our plans to assist existing customers with a single organization in obtaining an enterprise account. Enterprise accounts provide a unified experience granting access to all the latest and most robust features within the platform.
What is an enterprise account?
Enterprise accounts represent the top-most layer of the GitHub Enterprise management hierarchy, allowing enterprise owners to manage and scale their GitHub environments. Essentially, the enterprise account sits above organizations and serves as the primary interface for enterprise owners.
Benefits of an enterprise account:
- Policy Management: Manage and enforce policies across all organizations owned by the enterprise.
- Access to all GitHub Enterprise Features: Access GitHub Enterprise features like internal repositories to share actions seamlessly across your teams and enable audit log streaming.
- Access to paid add-ons: Take advantage of paid add-ons like GitHub Advanced Security and GitHub Copilot.
Timeline & Next Steps:
If you have a GitHub Enterprise Cloud account without an enterprise account:
- Voluntary Upgrade (Now – September 3rd, 2024): Administrators can proactively upgrade their existing account to an enterprise account via the
Billing and Planspage under the account’s settings. - Automatic Upgrade (Starting September 3rd, 2024): If an upgrade was not completed during the voluntary phase, the account will be assigned a scheduled upgrade date. We’ll notify administrators two weeks prior to this date.
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Seamless Transition: On the scheduled upgrade date, if not yet upgraded, the account will seamlessly transition and be nested under a new assigned enterprise account.
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The new enterprise account name will match the organization name or as close as possible if the name is already taken, and customers may choose to rename after the upgrade.
- There will be no change in ownership, all of the existing owners will remain the owners of the new enterprise account. The organization’s URL will not change, so existing usage of the repos or organization URL will not be impacted.
- The existing configuration such as SAML SSO, PATs, policies, and application integrations should remain with the organization, unless there’s an override at the enterprise account.