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title: "Managing site ownership"
date: "2024-02-14T06:18:38+00:00"
summary: "Manage site ownership in Site Factory efficiently. Learn how to transfer ownership, restrict creation rights, and handle user roles. Streamline your multi-site management process."
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Each Site Factory website has an authenticated user account listed as its _site owner_. By default, the site owner account created the website. A website’s site owner account (whose features are independent of the [roles](/site-factory/manage/users/admin) available in Site Factory) can perform several [website actions](/site-factory/manage/website#acsf-website-actions), including deleting the website.

Site owners can also view all websites they own on the **All my sites** page in the [Site Factory Management Console](/site-factory/manage), even if the site owner isn’t a member of the group the websites belong to.

For information about identifying the site owner account for a single website, see [Website metadata](/site-factory/manage/website#acsf-website-metadata).

Important

Manually creating users on your non-production environment can lead to user ID mismatches causing website staging processes to fail if the user is the site owner. For more information, see [Repairing user ID mismatches when staging a Factory](/site-factory/workflow/staging/mismatch).

Transferring site ownership
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To change the site owner account for a single website:

1.  [Sign in](/site-factory/login) to the [Site Factory Management Console](/site-factory/manage) as the site owner for a website.
    
2.  In the administrative menu, click **Sites**. Find the website for which you want to transfer ownership, and then open its actions menu.
    
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3.  Click **Transfer Site Ownership**.
    
4.  In the **Username or e-mail** field, enter the username or email address for the Site Factory account to which you want to transfer site ownership.
    
5.  Click **Transfer site**.
    

Site Factory sends confirmation emails to the existing and new site owners. After each person confirms the change, the website is associated with the new owner account.

Restricting website ownership
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Website creators are made the site owners by default, which may give them greater authority than you may want. To prevent this problem, you can configure Site Factory to have websites created by users not in the [platform admin](/site-factory/manage/users/admin/platform-admin) role to instead have a specified _platform admin_ user be their site owner.

To restrict website ownership of newly created websites to a _platform admin_:

1.  [Sign in](/site-factory/login) to the [Site Factory Management Console](/site-factory/manage) as a user with the [platform admin](/site-factory/manage/users/admin/platform-admin) role.
    
2.  In the admin menu, click **Administration**.
    
3.  Scroll to the **Site Factory management** section, and click **Site ownership settings**.
    
4.  In the **Site owner account** field, enter the Site Factory user name (email address) for a user with the _platform admin_ role:
    
5.  Click **Save**.
    

Newly-created websites created by any user who doesn’t have the _platform admin_ role will have the user you specified in the **Site owner account** field designated as the site owner. The site creator won’t have any role with the new website by default. If they have the _platform admin_ or _site builder_ role, you can assign roles for the website using the [Centralized role management](/site-factory/manage/preferences/centralized) feature.

To disable centralized role management, clear the **Site owner account** field, and then click **Save**. If the **Site owner account** field doesn’t list a user, any user who creates a website will be its site owner.

Permissions Note

The site transfer process **doesn’t** assign or remove roles from either the previous or the new website owner accounts. The process only changes the website’s owner to a different account.

If you want to associate the new site owner account with an administrative role (such as _Administrator_ or _Site maintainer_), you must sign in to the website as an administrative account and then manually assign the required roles to the new site owner’s account.