Domains and domain capture

Before you start

Who can use this feature

Available on the Organization and Enterprise plans

Only organization admins can add and remove domains

In this article, we’ll explore two key concepts of organization membership: domains ↓ and domain capture ↓

Domains

Domains and domain names identify entities online. We can view a domain name in an entity’s website address www.figma.com or email address support@figma.com.

Domains let Figma know who is a member of an organization, and who is a guest. Members versus guests →

Organizations can have multiple domains, including subdomains. Organization admins can add or remove organization domains.

Domain capture

Domain capture affects how Figma handles accounts registered to organization domains. When domain capture is on, any accounts with a company domain are added to the organization.

New members (people with company emails) will join the existing organization and can’t create separate company accounts. This applies to existing and future accounts.

Domain capture doesn’t apply to guests—anyone without a company email. Guests must be invited to teams, projects, or files to access the organization. Members versus guests →

Domain capture impacts how you add members, what happens to their drafts when they join the organization, and what happens when they’re removed.

Organization admins can request to enable or disable domain capture.

Add members

There are a number of ways to add members and guests to an organization. An organization's domain capture settings determine which options are available.

Method	Domain capture on	Domain capture off
Company accounts added to organization by default	✓	✕
Add a member to your organization	Figma adds all company accounts to the organization by default	✓
Invite members to an organization team	Figma adds all company accounts to the organization by default	✓
Invite guests to teams	✓	✓
Invite guests to files or projects	✓	✓
Add members to your identity provider (SAML SSO)	✓	✓

Domain capture on

Domain capture off

Draft ownership

Organizations usually have extra requirements or restrictions around privacy and security. If you're a part of an organization, your account includes any organizations linked to your account as well as any teams outside the organization. Explore organizations →

• Organizations: teams, files, and resources inside the organization. Everything within the organization is owned by the organization and can be manage by organization admins.
• Teams outside the organization: any Starter or Professional teams they're a member of that aren’t in an organization. This could be teams excluded from the upgrade, as well as teams outside the company they joined with a work email. These are outside the organization and can't easily be accessed if the member leaves.

When members are added to an organization, a person’s drafts come with them. The location of their existing drafts folder is determined by the organization's domain capture settings.

Location of drafts folder based on domain capture setting:

Domain capture on	Domain capture off
Find migrated drafts in the organization	When the member joins the organization dictates where their existing drafts will live: At upgrade: In organization. After upgrade: in teams outside the organization.

Remove members

Everything within the organization is owned by the organization and can be manage by organization admins. When you remove a member from your organization, Figma will:

• Remove their access to the organization and prevent them from accessing any teams, files or libraries in the organization.
• Transfer ownership of any teams to the member with the highest permissions on that team. If they also own individual files and projects, Figma will transfer ownership to an existing Editor.
• Move any Drafts from the organization space to the organization's Shared projects folder. Files in the Shared projects folder are locked for all other collaborators. Organization admins can claim ownership of the project to unlock files and assign them a new owner.

Domain capture will determine if members can access to their account outside the organization.

Account access based on domain capture setting:

Domain capture on	Domain capture off
Members or guests will lose access to their Figma account. This includes drafts, teams, and shared files or projects in teams outside the organization.	Figma detaches their email address from the organization. If they still have access to that email address, they may be able to access teams outside the organization.