Accounts overview

Accounts is an optional capability that lets your workspace create, connect, integrate, and govern third-party business identities. It serves platforms, agencies, franchise holders, marketplaces, distributors, and other operators responsible for multiple businesses.

What Accounts is

When enabled, the Accounts portfolio appears in your workspace navigation alongside Developers and Usage & billing. It shows every third-party Account your workspace may view, integrate, or manage — with each Account’s access level, Book readiness, connection status, and last Live activity. Each connected Account is an independent business identity with its own Book, Test and Live environments, and history. Your workspace holds a connection to it — it does not own or duplicate it.

What Accounts is not

Accounts is not the OrganizationSwitcher. Use Clerk’s OrganizationSwitcher at the sidebar foot to switch among your own directly operated workspaces. Accounts is for third-party businesses, not for workspace switching.

Accounts is not a second direct workspace selector.
Accounts is not a list of Clerk Organizations you belong to.
Accounts does not imply billing responsibility — that is set explicitly per connection.
Accounts does not grant ownership — access and ownership are separate facts.

When to enable Accounts

Enable Accounts when your workspace operates as a holder, platform, agency, or multi-location operator that needs to govern pricing and quoting for third-party businesses. A single-business workspace that only quotes for itself does not need Accounts. If you need to operate another directly owned business, create another Clerk Organization instead. Accounts does not add a second directly owned workspace inside your existing one.

How access, billing, and ownership stay separate

Fact	What it means	Where it is set
Access	What your workspace can do with a connected Account	Chosen per connection: view only, integration access, or full access
Billing responsibility	Who pays for the connected Account’s active Book use	Chosen per connection: your workspace or the connected Account
Ownership	Who owns the Account’s Book, environments, and history	Always the connected Account itself

These three facts are never inferred from one another. A workspace with full access is not necessarily the billing Account. A workspace that pays is not necessarily the owner.

How this fits together

Clerk Organization (your workspace)
└── Accounts capability
    ├── Create a new third-party Account
    │     → independent identity + controller connection
    └── Connect an existing Account
          → relationship to an existing identity

A connected Account may also be independently operated through its own Clerk Organization. That adds direct access without duplication.

Start here

Enable Accounts

Turn on the optional Accounts portfolio for your workspace.

Create an Account

Create a new third-party Account identity in Kordless.

Connect an existing Account

Connect a third-party Account that already exists in Kordless.

Access levels

What view, integration, and full access mean for a connected Account.

Start here

Set up Accounts

Access and billing

Operate the portfolio

Accounts overview

What Accounts is

What Accounts is not

When to enable Accounts

How access, billing, and ownership stay separate

How this fits together

Start here

Enable Accounts

Create an Account

Connect an existing Account

Access levels

​What Accounts is

​What Accounts is not

​When to enable Accounts

​How access, billing, and ownership stay separate

​How this fits together

​Start here

Enable Accounts

Create an Account

Connect an existing Account

Access levels

What Accounts is

What Accounts is not

When to enable Accounts

How access, billing, and ownership stay separate

How this fits together

Start here