organization-best-practices

Multi-tenant organization setup with member management, role-based access control, and team support via Better Auth.

- Configure organizations with customizable creation rules, membership limits, and ownership constraints; creators automatically receive the owner role

- Manage members and invitations with email delivery, expiration windows, and shareable invitation URLs; support multiple roles per member

- Define custom roles and permissions with dynamic access control; check permissions server-side via hasPermission endpoint or client-side via checkRolePermission

- Create and manage teams within organizations with configurable member and team limits; set active teams to scope API calls

- Use lifecycle hooks (beforeCreate, afterCreate, beforeDelete) and schema customization to extend default behavior and integrate with external systems

Setup

- Add organization() plugin to server config

- Add organizationClient() plugin to client config

- Run npx @better-auth/cli migrate

- Verify: check that organization, member, invitation tables exist in your database

import { betterAuth } from "better-auth";
import { organization } from "better-auth/plugins";