Prepare your Trial Organization for Production

This guide will help guide your business in preparing for a production implementation of Bitwarden after a successful trial period. If you're just starting your trial period, we recommend starting with the

When you're ready to move a trial organization into production for your business, you can upgrade your existing organization in-place or start a new organization from scratch.

Most customers upgrade their existing organization in-place and purge their vault of test data used during their trial period before importing all shared data into production (Step 4a).

While you probably have a number of members in your trial organization, most businesses add a lot more users when they move to production. With that in mind, here are a few critical steps you should take before onboarding the rest of your team:

This step only applies if you're self-hosting Bitwarden. During your trial of Bitwarden, you're using a special trial license that will need to be upgraded to a production license. Once you upgrade your self-hosted server to the production license, you can activate automatic license syncing. Follow these steps:

Before onboarding the rest of your team, ensure that all required credentials are collected in your organization, and that members will only have access to what they need once onboarded.

Many customers purge their vault of test data used during their trial period before importing all shared data into production (Step 4a). Purging vault data, which can be done from the organization's Settings → Organization info view, will prevent the creation of duplicates and help you start with a clean slate.

You may have completed most or all of these steps, but we recommend double checking that they're done to your satisfaction:

Additionally, now is a good time to check the privileges you're granting to individual users on your administrative team. Defining good practices for member roles and permissions now will make promoting users easier once you begin onboarding more employees:

Since you'll have a large number of users starting to use Bitwarden soon, it can be useful to setup some processes for centrally configuring and deploying key Bitwarden applications:

Now that your organization is ready for use in production, onboard the rest of your users. Depending on how you setup your organization during the trial period, this may be:

• Using SCIM

• Using Directory Connector

• Using manual invitation

We highly recommend reviewing, or re-reviewing, the