---
title: "Create organization"
---

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Path: Sureshake API › organizations

`POST /v2/organizations`

## Request body

_Required._

- `name` (`organization-create-organization.name`; string, required)
  - minLength 2; maxLength 120
- `slug` (`organization-create-organization.slug`; string, optional)
  - minLength 2; maxLength 120
- `description` (`organization-create-organization.description`; string, optional)
  - maxLength 500
- `organizationType` (`organization-create-organization.organizationType`; string, optional)
  - maxLength 100

## Example request

```json
{
  "name": "string",
  "slug": "string",
  "description": "string",
  "organizationType": "string"
}
```

## Code samples

### cURL

```bash
curl --request POST \
  --url https://api.sureshake.com/v2/organizations \
  --header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  --data '
{
  "name": "string",
  "slug": "string",
  "description": "string",
  "organizationType": "string"
}
'
```

### TypeScript

```typescript
const url = 'https://api.sureshake.com/v2/organizations';
const options = {
  method: 'POST',
  headers: {'Content-Type': 'application/json'},
  body: JSON.stringify({
    name: 'string',
    slug: 'string',
    description: 'string',
    organizationType: 'string'
  })
};

fetch(url, options)
  .then(res => res.json())
  .then(json => console.log(json))
  .catch(err => console.error(err));
```

### Python

```python
import requests

url = "https://api.sureshake.com/v2/organizations"

payload = {
    "name": "string",
    "slug": "string",
    "description": "string",
    "organizationType": "string"
}
headers = {"Content-Type": "application/json"}

response = requests.post(url, json=payload, headers=headers)

print(response.text)
```

## Responses

### 201

Default Response

#### Example

```json
{
  "data": {
    "id": "string",
    "name": "string",
    "slug": "string",
    "description": "string",
    "organizationType": "string",
    "status": "string",
    "createdAt": "2019-08-24T14:15:22Z",
    "updatedAt": "2019-08-24T14:15:22Z",
    "myMembershipId": "959e5d4a-e8b3-4d02-95ec-4e093ef76bd3",
    "myRole": "owner",
    "activeMemberCount": 0,
    "pendingMemberCount": 0
  },
  "meta": {
    "timestamp": "2019-08-24T14:15:22Z"
  }
}
```

- `data` (`organization-create-organization.response.201.data`; object, required)
  - `id` (`organization-create-organization.response.201.data.id`; string, required)
  - `name` (`organization-create-organization.response.201.data.name`; string, required)
  - `slug` (`organization-create-organization.response.201.data.slug`; string, required)
  - `status` (`organization-create-organization.response.201.data.status`; string, required)
  - `createdAt` (`organization-create-organization.response.201.data.createdAt`; string, required)
    - format `date-time`
  - `updatedAt` (`organization-create-organization.response.201.data.updatedAt`; string, required)
    - format `date-time`
  - `description` (`organization-create-organization.response.201.data.description`; string, optional, nullable)
  - `organizationType` (`organization-create-organization.response.201.data.organizationType`; string, optional, nullable)
  - `myMembershipId` (`organization-create-organization.response.201.data.myMembershipId`; string, optional)
    - format `uuid`
  - `myRole` (`organization-create-organization.response.201.data.myRole`; string, optional)
    - one of `"owner"`, `"admin"`, `"member"`, `"viewer"`
  - `activeMemberCount` (`organization-create-organization.response.201.data.activeMemberCount`; integer, optional)
    - min 0
  - `pendingMemberCount` (`organization-create-organization.response.201.data.pendingMemberCount`; integer, optional)
    - min 0
- `meta` (`organization-create-organization.response.201.meta`; object, optional)
  - `timestamp` (`organization-create-organization.response.201.meta.timestamp`; string, required)
    - format `date-time`

### 400

Default Response

#### Example

```json
{
  "error": {
    "code": "string",
    "message": "string",
    "details": null,
    "traceId": "string"
  }
}
```

- `error` (`organization-create-organization.response.400.error`; object, required)
  - `code` (`organization-create-organization.response.400.error.code`; string, required) — Machine-readable error code (e.g., NOT_FOUND)
  - `message` (`organization-create-organization.response.400.error.message`; string, required) — Human-readable error message
  - `details` (`organization-create-organization.response.400.error.details`; unknown, optional) — Optional structured error details
  - `traceId` (`organization-create-organization.response.400.error.traceId`; string, optional) — Unique ID for log correlation

### 401

Default Response

#### Example

```json
{
  "error": {
    "code": "string",
    "message": "string",
    "details": null,
    "traceId": "string"
  }
}
```

- `error` (`organization-create-organization.response.401.error`; object, required)
  - `code` (`organization-create-organization.response.401.error.code`; string, required) — Machine-readable error code (e.g., NOT_FOUND)
  - `message` (`organization-create-organization.response.401.error.message`; string, required) — Human-readable error message
  - `details` (`organization-create-organization.response.401.error.details`; unknown, optional) — Optional structured error details
  - `traceId` (`organization-create-organization.response.401.error.traceId`; string, optional) — Unique ID for log correlation

### 403

Default Response

#### Example

```json
{
  "error": {
    "code": "string",
    "message": "string",
    "details": null,
    "traceId": "string"
  }
}
```

- `error` (`organization-create-organization.response.403.error`; object, required)
  - `code` (`organization-create-organization.response.403.error.code`; string, required) — Machine-readable error code (e.g., NOT_FOUND)
  - `message` (`organization-create-organization.response.403.error.message`; string, required) — Human-readable error message
  - `details` (`organization-create-organization.response.403.error.details`; unknown, optional) — Optional structured error details
  - `traceId` (`organization-create-organization.response.403.error.traceId`; string, optional) — Unique ID for log correlation

### 409

Default Response

#### Example

```json
{
  "error": {
    "code": "string",
    "message": "string",
    "details": null,
    "traceId": "string"
  }
}
```

- `error` (`organization-create-organization.response.409.error`; object, required)
  - `code` (`organization-create-organization.response.409.error.code`; string, required) — Machine-readable error code (e.g., NOT_FOUND)
  - `message` (`organization-create-organization.response.409.error.message`; string, required) — Human-readable error message
  - `details` (`organization-create-organization.response.409.error.details`; unknown, optional) — Optional structured error details
  - `traceId` (`organization-create-organization.response.409.error.traceId`; string, optional) — Unique ID for log correlation

### 422

Default Response

#### Example

```json
{
  "error": {
    "code": "string",
    "message": "string",
    "details": null,
    "traceId": "string"
  }
}
```

- `error` (`organization-create-organization.response.422.error`; object, required)
  - `code` (`organization-create-organization.response.422.error.code`; string, required) — Machine-readable error code (e.g., NOT_FOUND)
  - `message` (`organization-create-organization.response.422.error.message`; string, required) — Human-readable error message
  - `details` (`organization-create-organization.response.422.error.details`; unknown, optional) — Optional structured error details
  - `traceId` (`organization-create-organization.response.422.error.traceId`; string, optional) — Unique ID for log correlation

### 500

Default Response

#### Example

```json
{
  "error": {
    "code": "string",
    "message": "string",
    "details": null,
    "traceId": "string"
  }
}
```

- `error` (`organization-create-organization.response.500.error`; object, required)
  - `code` (`organization-create-organization.response.500.error.code`; string, required) — Machine-readable error code (e.g., NOT_FOUND)
  - `message` (`organization-create-organization.response.500.error.message`; string, required) — Human-readable error message
  - `details` (`organization-create-organization.response.500.error.details`; unknown, optional) — Optional structured error details
  - `traceId` (`organization-create-organization.response.500.error.traceId`; string, optional) — Unique ID for log correlation


Source: https://docs.sureshake.com/reference/organizations/create/index.md