Cannot access shared org after creating personal one in the sign up wizard

I work for a company that has an OpenAI API account. The admin sent me an invite to join the company organization. I accepted the invite from the link in the e-mail. During the sign-up wizard, I created a personal organization. I though it will be in addition to company organization, so I can use it for local projects before sharing with my team. However, after logging in, I can access only the personal organization and not the company organization. Logging out, clearing the browser cache and then logging back in did not help. I cannot accept a new invitation since I already accepted the first one using my company e-mail.

How can the admin or I make me join the company organization?

Hi @guyw_ai2

Best way would be to ask the org owner to re-invite you. LMK if that doesn’t work.

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Hey sps, the owner sent me 2 re-invites, but when I click the link, it does nothing, because I already accepted the invitation using this e-mail as an account identifier. The problem persists after sign out and sign in. Are we missing something?

Does the org selection drop-down on platform.openai.com only show Personal org, once you have logged in with the account that received the invite?

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yep, exactly

I tried to reproduce this issue on my end but haven’t been able to.

ATM the best option would be for the admin to reach out to help.openai.com.

You can ask your admin to check if your account shows up in the org’s members, remove it and then re-invite.

We’ve had an open ticket with support on this issue for months. The only workaround we’ve found is to have the admin invite you with an email from another domain

Just to report about the end of the saga, and point out an issue that may trick other people: The root cause of the problem was that the company I work in has two e-mail aliases per person - .org and .com. The invitation was sent to one, but the OpenAI new account wizard allows for entering an e-mail, and mistakenly I entered the second one. So despite accepting an invite from the organization my user was not listed in the org.

You must use the same e-mail address you were invited to in order to join an organization

The association of a user to an organization is by e-mail and not by some ID.

Be aware