Creating a New Department

Departments keep a team's workflows, runs and people separate from the rest of the account. Creating one takes a moment.

Who can create a department

You need to be an admin in your master department, a master admin. Being an admin of an individual department is not enough. Understanding the Master Department in Manifestly explains the difference.

Create it

1. Open Team from the side navigation, or go to app.manifest.ly/settings/users.
2. Click + Department at the top of the page.
3. Enter a Department Name.
4. Check the Time Zone. It starts out matching your account's time zone, and it is what business-day due dates for the department's workflows and runs are calculated in, so change it only if this team works somewhere else.
5. Click Create Department.

You are added to the new department as an admin automatically.

After you create it

A new department starts with no one in it but you. To staff it, add people from the departments they are already in rather than inviting them again; see Add existing users to a new department.

The rest of the department's settings live on its Settings tab, which you reach from the department's three-dot menu on the Team page. That is where you set the signup message people see when they are invited, the invitation URL for a self-service signup page, and, if your account has the feature, workflow versioning. See Customize your invitation signup message and Create a Customized Signup Page.

Related: Organize Users into Departments and Managing Users and Their Permissions.