Organizations

An organization is the shared workspace for your team in Localizely. It brings together the things your team shares, from projects and members to translation memories, glossaries, and billing, so your localization work is organized and managed in one place.

When you sign up, Localizely creates a default organization for you and makes you its owner. Your free trial, sample project, and free MT characters live there, so you can try everything Localizely offers from day one.

What organizations give you

Projects, members, billing, and translation assets are managed at the organization level. In practice, this means:

What belongs to an organization

Every organization includes the following:

Working in multiple organizations

One account can belong to any number of organizations, such as your own, your employer’s, or a client’s. Each organization is fully separate from the others, with its own projects, members, billing, and translation assets.

To move between them, use the organization switcher in the app, which also shows your role in each organization. Everything you see, from the project list to the billing page, belongs to the organization you currently have selected.

Members and access

Access to an organization is defined by one of the following roles:

Organization admins have full access, so if someone only needs to work on a specific project, invite them as a contributor on that project’s Contributors page instead, either as a project admin or a translator.

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Do I need to set up an organization before I can use Localizely?

No. Your account comes with one already, and you can start creating projects in it right away.

Can a translation memory or glossary be shared with a project in another organization?

No. Translation memories and glossaries belong to one organization and are available only to projects in that organization. If you need the same content in both, export a translation memory as a TMX file or a glossary as a CSV file and import it into the other organization.

Which organization is billed for a project?

The one that owns it. A project always counts toward the plan and usage of the organization that owns that project.

I was invited to another organization. Does that affect my own?

No. Your own organization, its projects, and its billing are unchanged. You simply gain access to the other organization as well and can switch between the two.