organization-best-practices

Multi-tenant organizations with Better Auth are set up by adding the organization plugin to your server and client, running database migrations, and configuring roles, permissions, and team structures. This enables users to create workspaces, invite members, and manage scoped access.

Better Auth supports RBAC for SaaS applications by allowing you to check permissions for dynamic access control and create custom roles with fine-grained permission maps. You can enforce scoped access to organization resources based on these defined roles.

An invitation system in Better Auth is configured to send invitation emails or generate shareable URLs, with options to set expiration times and limits. You can also cancel pending invites automatically when re-inviting a user to the organization.

Better Auth enables teams within organizations, allowing you to create and manage team membership. You can enforce operational guardrails by configuring maximums for both the number of teams and the number of members allowed per team.

The best way to customize organization database schemas and lifecycle hooks in Better Auth is by using schema options for table and field names, and defining hooks for before and after create or delete behaviors to manage production-ready organization lifecycle processes.