---
title: What an Account is
type: explanation
section: system
summary: An Account owns your apps, Spaces and data; it sits inside an Organization, and you hold one role in each Account you belong to.
applies_to:
  clients: [web]
sources:
  - evolve-front-end/app/[lng]/account-page/personal-info/components/Organizations.tsx
  - evolve-front-end/app/[lng]/account-settings/layout.tsx
  - evolve-front-end/app/i18n/locales/en/organizations.json
  - evolve-front-end/app/i18n/locales/en/organization-settings.json
  - ops/plans/app-management-control-plane/46-organization-settings-tenant-admin-experience.md
verified:
  at: 2026-09-04
  env: code
  by: content-lane-system
ttl_days: 45
related: [system/switch-accounts, system/account-administrator, system/roles]
aliases: [system/what-a-tenant-is]
---

An Account is the unit that owns your apps, your Spaces and your data. Every app you open, every Space you post in and every file you upload belongs to exactly one Account.

Three levels describe where you are:

- **Organization** — a group of Accounts. It is not a surface you work in.
- **Account** — the tenancy. Apps are made available and installed per Account, and administration happens here.
- **Space** — a place inside an Account where people work together.

## Your membership

You can be a member of more than one Account. Each membership pairs an Account with one role, and you act under one membership at a time. The pair you are currently using appears in two places:

- Your avatar menu, above the menu items, showing the Account and the role beneath it.
- **My profile**, as the line **Account:** followed by the Account name.

Your full list is on the **Settings** page, under **Personal Info**, in the table **Organizations & roles**. It has three columns, **Organization**, **Role** and **Action**, and the membership you are using is marked **Selected**.

## Why the same person sees different things in two Accounts

Access is decided per membership, not per person. An app can be installed for you in one Account and absent in another; a role can carry a capability in one Account and not the other. Changing Account therefore changes which apps appear, which Spaces you can open, and what an app shows you inside itself. See [An app is missing](/help/system/an-app-is-missing).

## Naming

The product says **Account**. Some interface strings still read "organization" — the switcher is labelled **Switch organization** and the membership table **Organizations & roles** — and they act on Accounts.

## Related

- [Switch between Accounts](/help/system/switch-accounts)
- [The Account administrator role](/help/system/account-administrator)
- [Roles and what they grant](/help/system/roles)