What's the difference between an Organization and a Company?
Your Organization is your entire Operating account; a Company is the legal entity within it that issues invoices. The distinction is mostly invisible for single-entity businesses — it matters most when you run multiple legal entities in the same account.
Written By Lauri Eurén
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Organization — your account
The Organization is the top level: every setting, permission, Person, Project, and record is scoped to it, and it's fully isolated from other organizations. It's what you sign in to. ("Tenant" is the internal name for the same thing in the product's code — you'll only ever see "Organization" in the interface.)
Company — a legal entity that invoices
A Company is a legal entity within your Organization. Invoicing is configured at the Company level, not the Organization level — so different Companies can have their own invoice numbering, tax setup, and billing details. Each Project and each Person belongs to a single Company.
When the distinction matters
One legal entity → you have a single Company; it's mostly invisible day to day.
Multiple legal entities (for example, separate country or subsidiary entities) → you set up a Company for each, so each invoices under its own details while everyone shares one Operating Organization, one set of people, and one view of the work.