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title: How to Transfer Team Ownership
tags: tutorials
disqus: hackmd
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# How to Transfer Team Ownership

The user who created the team workspace is the **owner** of it and has the highest permission over the workspace.

When this user needs to transfer ownership to another user due to a change of assignment, departure, etc., you can follow the steps below.

:::info
💡 The team owner can only be transferred to a user on the team with an **Admin** role, and this user has to set up an email address for its HackMD account.
:::

Before getting to the real action, we recommend confirming that the user is about to receive the ownership

- [ ] is already an **Admin** of the team workspace
- Please go to \[Team Space → Team Settings → Team Members\] to check.
- [ ] has set up an email address for its HackMD account
- Please go to \[Settings → [General Settings](https://hackmd.io/settings#general)\] to check.

Check? Then we are ready to move on.

## Transfer ownership

1. Please go to \[Team Space → Team Settings → General Settings] and scroll to the bottom of the page. There is \[Transfer Ownership]. Click \[Transfer].

2. Please enter the email address of the new owner. Since transferring ownership of the team workspace has significant implications and cannot be restored by the initiator once complete, you need to enter the team workspace's name again to confirm. After entering, please click \[OK] to proceed.

3. The other party (the user receiving the transferring request) will receive an email and a notification in the HackMD Notification Center with a confirmation link. The other party has to click the link to confirm ownership acceptance.
:::warning
❗ The confirmation link is valid for 24 hours and will expire afterward. Please start again from Step 1 if that happens.
:::
4. Once accepted, the team ownership transfer is complete. The original owner will become an Admin of the workspace. Other Admins of the team workspace will also receive notifications that the owner is changed.