Provider PortalBusiness Unit Portal

Business Unit Portal

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Interested in managing a Business Unit? Contact us to learn more about the Business Unit Portal. To get started, you must have at least one Enterprise organization.

The Business Unit Portal is an administration center that allows Enterprise administrators to create and manage any number of Enterprise organizations. Once you have requested access and been approved, the portal is accessible using the Provider Portal, available through the product switcher:

Business Unit Product Switcher
Business Unit Product Switcher

The Business Unit Portal empowers administrators to manage large Enterprise organizations at scale. The Business Unit Portal streamlines administration tasks by centralizing a dedicated space to access and support each managed organization, or to create a new one:

Business Unit Portal
Business Unit Portal

The Business Unit Portal is built with two distinct user types:

  • Service users can administer Business Units

  • Unit admins can administer business unit organizations, including adding new service users to the team.

Why Business Unit Portal?

The Business Unit Portal is a solution to efficiently create and easily manage multiple Bitwarden organizations in your business. Using the Business Unit Portal, administrators may:

  • View all organizations under the company's management, as well as onboard new and existing organizations.

  • Manage user onboarding, provisioning, organization policies, settings, and collections.

  • View time-stamped actions made by users in the Business Unit Portal, including: creating new organizations, inviting new users, and user's access to organizations.

The Business Unit Portal is an all-in-one management experience that enables business administrators to manage Bitwarden organizations at scale. The Business Unit Portal streamlines administration tasks by centralizing a dedicated space to access and support each organization, or to create a new one.

Business Unit organizations

Business Unit organizations are any organization that is attached to or administered by a Business Unit. To your users, there's no difference between a "Business Unit" organization and a "regular" organization except for who is conducting administration. All Business Unit administrators have access to all unit organizations:

Structure of a Provider
Structure of a Provider
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As denoted in the above diagram, if Unit administrators want to use an organization to manage their own credentials, they should not include it as a Business Unit.

Creating an independent organization for this case will ensure users can be given the appropriate user types and access controls over credentials.

Organizations relate Bitwarden users and vault items together for secure sharing of logins, cards, notes, and identities. Organizations have a unique view, the Admin Console, where service users can manage the organization's collections, manage members and groups, run reporting, import data, and configure organization settings:

Business Unit Collections
Business Unit Collections


Members of a business unit will find shared items in their Vaults view alongside individually-owned items, as well as several methods for filtering the item list to only organization items or items in particular collections:

Organization-enabled vault
Organization-enabled vault

Once you have contacted us and been setup with access by a member of the Bitwarden team, start a Business Unit organization.

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