Summary: The Managed Better Auth Organization plugin adds multi-tenancy to apps built on Better Auth, letting each tenant share a Neon branch with role-based access (owner, admin, and member roles). Use it when your app needs workspaces or tenant isolation with invitation workflows, configurable membership limits, and per-branch enable/disable control via the Neon Console or API. The plugin exposes authClient.organization methods for creating, listing, and deleting organizations, inviting and removing members, and checking role permissions client-side.

Manage multi-tenant organizations, members, and invitations

Managed Better Auth is built on Better Auth and comes with a pre-configured Organization plugin, so your app can support multi-tenancy without additional setup.

Note: Preview Feature

The Organization plugin is currently in Beta. Support for JWT token claims is available.

Use the Organization plugin when you need multi-tenancy in your app. It supports:

• Multi-tenant apps where each tenant is an organization
• Workspaces or groups that share a Neon branch (same database)
• Inviting users and assigning roles: owner, admin, or member
• Role-based access: owners and admins can manage the org; the member role has read-only access

Better Auth also has a Teams feature (sub-groups within an org); that feature is not currently enabled in Managed Better Auth.

• A Neon project with Auth enabled
• A signed-in user (organizations are associated with users)

neon-auth-orgs-example is a multi-tenant sample that uses the Organization plugin with Drizzle and @neondatabase/auth (see that folder's README for bun setup from the monorepo root). For other runnable Managed Better Auth apps, see Example applications.

The Organization plugin is enabled by default for each branch; you can disable it or change settings in the Console or via the API. If the plugin is disabled, your application users and admins cannot create or manage organizations, and any organization-related API calls will return an error.

Console

Open your project in the Neon Console, then go to Auth > Plugins (beta) and use the Organizations section (per branch). This tab is available when your project uses Managed Better Auth with Better Auth; other Auth settings, including your Auth URL, stay on the Configuration tab. From there you can customize:

• Enable Organizations (toggle): Turn the Organization plugin on or off for the branch. When off, all organization API calls are disabled and return an error.
• Limit: Maximum total organization memberships (created + joined) per user. Once reached, the user cannot create new organizations. Default: 10.
• Membership Limit: Maximum number of members per organization (default: 100).
• Creator role: Role assigned to the user who creates an organization: Owner or Admin. Choose Admin if you want the org creator to have fewer privileges than Owner (for example, they cannot delete the org or change the owner).
• Send Invitation Email (toggle): When on, invited users receive an email with an accept link. This requires Verify email at signup to be enabled in the Authentication configuration. Accepting the invitation requires the AuthView component or a custom route that handles /auth/accept-invitation?invitationId=<INV_ID> in your application. When off, no email is sent and you handle invitations in your app (for example, via the invitation ID or the user invitation list).

API

You can also configure the plugin via the Neon API. Use your API key in the Authorization header.

Get current plugin config (including organization):

curl -X GET \
  'https://console.neon.tech/api/v2/projects/{project_id}/branches/{branch_id}/auth/plugins' \
  -H 'Accept: application/json' \
  -H 'Authorization: Bearer $NEON_API_KEY'

Example response (excerpt showing the organization object):

{
  "organization": {
    "enabled": true,
    "organization_limit": 10,
    "membership_limit": 100,
    "creator_role": "owner",
    "send_invitation_email": false
  }
}

The full response includes other plugin configs (email provider, OAuth, etc.). creator_role is either owner or admin.

Update the organization plugin:

Send only the fields you want to change; all request body fields are optional.

curl -X PATCH \
  'https://console.neon.tech/api/v2/projects/{project_id}/branches/{branch_id}/auth/plugins/organization' \
  -H 'Accept: application/json' \
  -H 'Authorization: Bearer $NEON_API_KEY' \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{
    "enabled": true,
    "organization_limit": 10,
    "membership_limit": 100,
    "creator_role": "owner",
    "send_invitation_email": false
  }'

Example response:

{
  "enabled": true,
  "organization_limit": 10,
  "membership_limit": 100,
  "creator_role": "owner",
  "send_invitation_email": false
}

• Get all plugin configurations
• Update organization plugin configuration

Use the following methods to manage the organization lifecycle.

Creates a new organization. The user creating it automatically becomes the Owner.

const { data, error } = await authClient.organization.create({
  name: 'My Organization',
  slug: 'my-org',
  logo: 'https://example.com/logo.png',
  metadata: { plan: 'pro' },
  keepCurrentActiveOrganization: false,
});

Checks if an organization slug is available.

const { data, error } = await authClient.organization.checkSlug({
  slug: 'my-org',
});

Lists all organizations the current user is a member of.

const { data, error } = await authClient.organization.list();

In a React component, you can use the useListOrganizations hook to fetch and display organizations:

import { authClient } from './auth';

export default function OrganizationList() {
  const { data: organizations } = authClient.useListOrganizations();
  return (
    <div>
      {organizations?.map((org) => (
        <p>{org.name}</p>
      ))}
    </div>
  );
}

Switches the user's active context to a specific organization.

const { data, error } = await authClient.organization.setActive({
  organizationId: 'org_12345678',
});

Retrieves full details of the currently active organization.

const { data, error } = await authClient.organization.getFullOrganization({
  query: {
    organizationId: 'org-id',
    organizationSlug: 'org-slug',
    membersLimit: 10,
  },
});

In a React component, you can use the useActiveOrganization hook to fetch and display the active organization:

import { authClient } from './auth';

export default function ActiveOrganization() {
  const { data: organization } = authClient.useActiveOrganization();
  return (
    <div>
      <h1>{organization?.name}</h1>
      <p>Members: {organization?.members.length}</p>
    </div>
  );
}

Updates organization details. Requires Owner or Admin permissions.

await authClient.organization.update({
  data: {
    name: 'New Name',
    metadata: { plan: 'enterprise' },
  },
  organizationId: 'org-id',
});

Deletes the organization and all associated data. Requires Owner permission.

const { data, error } = await authClient.organization.delete({
  organizationId: 'org-id',
});

Manage invitations to join an organization.

Note: Invitation Emails

Invitation emails are supported when Send Invitation Email is enabled in the organization config. This also requires Verify email at signup in the Authentication configuration. Accepting an email invitation requires the AuthView component or a custom route handling /auth/accept-invitation?invitationId=<INV_ID> in your app.

When the email toggle is off, handle invitations in your app using the invitation ID or the user invitation list.

Sends an invitation to a user.

const { data, error } = await authClient.organization.inviteMember({
  email: 'new-user@example.com',
  role: 'member',
  resend: true,
});

Accepts an invitation using the invitation ID.

const { data, error } = await authClient.organization.acceptInvitation({
  invitationId: 'invitation-id',
});

Declines an invitation that the user has received and chooses not to accept.

const { data, error } = await authClient.organization.rejectInvitation({
  invitationId: 'invitation-id',
});

Cancel a pending invitation that has been sent to a user.

const { data, error } = await authClient.organization.cancelInvitation({
  invitationId: 'invitation-id',
});

Retrieves details of a specific invitation.

const { data, error } = await authClient.organization.getInvitation({
  query: {
    id: 'invitation-id',
  },
});

Lists all pending invitations for an organization.

const { data, error } = await authClient.organization.listInvitations({
  query: {
    organizationId: 'org-id',
  },
});

Lists all invitations received by the current user.

const { data, error } = await authClient.organization.listUserInvitations();

Manage users within the organization.

Lists members with support for pagination, sorting, and filtering.

const { data, error } = await authClient.organization.listMembers({
  query: {
    limit: 20,
    offset: 0,
    sortBy: 'createdAt',
    sortDirection: 'desc',
    filterField: 'role',
    filterOperator: 'eq',
    filterValue: 'admin',
  },
});

Updates a member's role.

const { data, error } = await authClient.organization.updateMemberRole({
  memberId: 'member-id',
  role: 'admin',
});

Removes a member from the organization.

const { data, error } = await authClient.organization.removeMember({
  memberIdOrEmail: 'member-id-or-email',
});

Gets the current user's membership details for the active organization.

const { data, error } = await authClient.organization.getActiveMember();

Gets the current user's role(s) in the active organization.

const { data, error } = await authClient.organization.getActiveMemberRole();

Removes the current user from an organization.

const { data, error } = await authClient.organization.leave({
  organizationId: 'org-id',
});

The Organization plugin includes a Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) system.

You can check permissions on the client side using checkRolePermission:

const canDelete = authClient.organization.checkRolePermission({
  permission: {
    organization: ['delete'],
  },
  role: 'admin', // returns false, admins cannot delete orgs
});
// console.log(canDelete); // false

Because Managed Better Auth is a managed service, some Better Auth features are not currently supported:

• Teams: The Teams sub-feature is not currently enabled.
• Hooks: Server-side hooks (for example, beforeCreateOrganization) are not supported.
• Custom Permissions: You cannot currently define custom roles or modify default permissions.
• Dynamic Access Control: Dynamic creation of roles via API is not enabled.

Check the Managed Better Auth roadmap for updates on these features.

• Admin
• Email OTP
• JWT
• Magic Link
• OpenAPI
• Phone Number

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