GitHub Essentials - Second Edition

How to convert a user account into an organization

For the reasons mentioned in The Difference between users and organizations section, one might want to turn a personal account into an organization. This can be easily done in the user's Settings under the Organizations tab.

You can then hit the Turn username into an organization button. Be sure that this is what you want because the action is irreversible.

 

In the next step, you have to choose an owner of the organization. Start typing and when the name appears, select it and hit Choose. Finally, hit Create organization to start the conversion process.