Store and organization owners

The Store owner and Organization owner roles are specialized roles that are required for each store and organization. These roles have the highest level of permissions and have complete access to all features within an organization or store respectively.

Each store has only one store owner, and each organization has only one organization owner. The owner is usually the person who created the store or organization.

You can check who’s listed as the store owner or organization owner on the Settings > Users page of your Shopify admin. Email messages from Shopify are sent to the store owner’s email address.

Considerations for store and organization owners

Review the following considerations for store and organization owners.

Ownership structure for stores and organizations

• Each organization has one organization owner only, and each store in the organization has one store owner only.
  • Each organization must have an owner, and each store in your organization must also have a store owner.
  • The organization owner can also be the store owner, or different stores within an organization can have different store owners.

Store and organization owner access

• The following actions are available only to the store owner regardless of which sensitive permissions have been given to other users:
  • Managing Shopify Payments.
  • Creating and managing a Shopify Balance account.
  • Accessing Shopify Capital settings.
  • Pausing or deactivating a store.
  • Transferring or changing ownership.
  • Some optional or early access features that require Shopify Support's assistance to activate must be requested by the store owner.

User management considerations

• You can't assign a store owner or organization owner role to a user the same way as other users. Instead, the current owner can change ownership to a new user.
• Organization owners have full access to organization features and managements, and can view and perform most tasks in stores within an organization with the following exception:
• Organizations owners can't change store ownership.
• If a store is part of an organization, then store owners in the organization can't create or manage roles.