Ownership transfer

You can transfer the ownership of a store or an organization to another owner. For organization ownership, you can transfer it only to users in your organization. If you want to transfer the ownership of your organization to someone without a user account in your organization, then you must invite them first.

To learn how to transfer stores that you own, or to a new owner, read Managing stores in organizations.

Considerations for transferring organization ownership

Review the following considerations before you transfer organization ownership:

• Your organization can have only one organization owner at a time.
• The organization owner has complete access to every part of that organization's Shopify admin and has permissions for organization features that can't be removed.

Transfer organization ownership

To transfer organization ownership you must be the organization owner.

Steps:

1. From your Shopify admin, go to Settings > Users.

2. Click your user name. You must be the organization owner.

3. In the card at the top of the user profile page (the card title should indicate that you're the current organization owner), click Transfer ownership.

4. Enter the new owner's email address. The new owner must be an existing user in the Users section of your Shopify admin settings. You might need to re-authenticate depending on how recent your last login was.

5. Click Transfer organization ownership.

Considerations for transferring store ownership

Review the following considerations before you transfer store ownership:

• Your store can have only one store owner at a time.
• The store owner has complete access to every part of that store's Shopify admin and has several permissions that can't be removed.

Transfer store ownership

To transfer store ownership you must be the current store owner.

Steps:

1. From your Shopify admin, go to Settings > Users.

2. Click your user name. You must be the store owner.

3. In the Store permissions section, click … next to the store that you want to transfer ownership of.

4. Click Edit.

5. Click Transfer ownership.

6. Enter the new owner's email address and name.

7. Enter your password, and then click Transfer store ownership.