Accounts and billing

Organizations and companies

Apps can live in a shared workspace instead of one person's account. There are two kinds:

• Organizations are made by anyone, at sign-up or later, and people join by invitation from any email domain, Gmail included.
• Companies are set up by Crow Nest for a business, behind the company's own login. Everyone who signs in with the company's email domain joins automatically.

Both get a shared list of every app, org visibility (everyone inside can open it), policies, and shared AI keys.

#Make an organization

• At sign-up, choose Create an organization and give it a name.
• Later, ask your AI (the org tool) or use Settings, Turn my account into an organization. Everything moves with you: every app keeps its address, data, versions and stats; your AI keys become organization keys; and your plan, card and bought domains come along.

#Roles and permissions

Each member also has two switches, set by a manager:

• Can publish: whether they can publish apps into the organization.
• Can share outside: whether they can share apps with people outside it.

#Inviting people

Managers invite by email (up to 50 at once) from the Organization tab or with the org_invite tool, choosing the role and the two switches. The person gets an email with a link; only they, signed in with that address, can accept it.

#The shared app list

The Organization tab lists every app with its owner, visibility and opens this week. Managers can pause an app: viewers see a page saying the organization paused it, until a manager unpauses it.

#Company domain

Owners and managers can put every app on the organization's own domain, like expenses.apps.acme.com, by setting it once under Company domain. See Custom domains.

#Policies

Managers and company admins decide whether apps may be public, whether they may be shared by link, and whether they may be shared with emails outside the organization. See Sharing and access.

#Billing

• Organizations are paid for by the owner on the personal plans ($7 Crow Nest Personal, or Pay as you go). Everyone else sees the plan and usage, and anyone who needs a card is told to ask the owner.
• Companies pay $5 per person per month. Each person adds an allowance to a pool the company shares, and the company's admins set up and manage billing.

See Plans and billing.

#Companies

When Crow Nest sets up a company, it gets:

• its own login: people sign in with their work email and land in the company workspace;
• automatic membership for everyone on the company's email domains;
• apps people already published on a personal account with that domain move into the company, keeping their addresses;
• company admins, who see every app and its usage, set policies, manage AI keys and billing.

To set up a company, get in touch.