Manage teams and organisation structure in Canva Enterprise

Canva Enterprise includes admin tools for organizing teams, controlling content access, and managing brand use across organizations.

This guide is for you if you manage governance, information technology (IT), user setup, or brand management.

Set up Canva Enterprise to fit your business model or organisation structure, whether you’re running a single collaborative team or multiple teams across a large organisation.

The Organization is the administrative layer that governs all teams under it.

• Organisation Admins have platform-wide authority, managing users, teams, security settings, and brand assets across the entire organisation.
• Team Admins manage individual team operations, including content, members, and brand settings, while adhering to organisation-wide policies.

This layered structure streamlines collaboration, governance, and scalability across complex enterprises.

Here’s a diagram to show what the Canva Enterprise multi-team structure looks like:

Admin roles and responsibilities

For the complete list, check out Canva Teams and Canva Enterprise roles and access.

If your organisation is expanding into new brands, departments, or regions, a multi-team structure can help you scale effectively while maintaining central control.

To switch:

• A single-team organization admin can directly add a new team via the Team Details section under Settings.
• Once you create a new team, Canva automatically converts your setup into a multi-team organization.

You may need to:

• Migrate existing content to appropriate teams.
• Re assign admin roles between Organization admins and Team admins.
• Set up new Brand Kits and permission structures.

• Only organization admins on Canva Enterprise can create multiple teams. Before you start, make sure you're on a Canva Enterprise and have organization admin permissions.
• If you're not an Organization admin, contact your Org admin to create a team for you.

Tip: For collaborative work within a single team, consider creating groups instead of multiple teams. Teams in Canva are distinct entities, and collaboration between different teams is limited.

1. From the homepage side panel, select your Profile.
2. Select
   Settings.
3. Under Organization settings, select the
   Teams tab.
4. In the page header, select
   Create a team.
5. Select Add a team to confirm that you want to create a new team.
6. Name your team. If your organization uses Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) single sign-on, you can add the SAML team ID from your IT team.
7. Select Create team.
8. Refresh the Teams page.

Your new team appears under Your teams. Canva links it to your organization automatically. Learn more about how to manage team members.

This usually happens if:

• You’re not an Organization admin.
• Your organization isn’t set up as a multi-team organization (for example, it’s currently a single-team setup).
• Your plan/setup doesn’t allow self-serve team creation (in some cases, you may need to contact Support to add teams).

With the addition of organization filters, admins can:

• Switch between teams quickly to manage settings across your organization.
• Keep all teams aligned by applying the right permissions and controls.
• Save time by managing everything in one centralized location.

Reach out to your Customer Success Manager, if you have one, or get in touch with our Sales team to get guidance on best practices for structure and governance.