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title: "Create a Team and Make It Private"
lang: en
canonical_url: https://www.peony.ink/docs/getting-started/create-a-team
description: "Teams are spaces in the Peony sidebar with their own data rooms and files. Create one on Business and above, and make it Private to limit which admins see it."
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A **team** in Peony, a virtual data room for fundraising, M&A and due diligence, is a space in the left sidebar, under **Your teams**, that holds its own data rooms, folders and files. Use one to split work between admins. Creating a team needs <Plan>Business+</Plan>. On **Free**, the sidebar shows **Add more teams** with an upgrade badge.

A team organizes your admins. To organize the people who read a room, [create a group](https://www.peony.ink/docs/getting-started/create-a-group) instead.

## Create a Team

1. In the left sidebar, click the add icon next to **Your teams**.
2. In the **Create a team** dialog, enter a name and, if you want, a description.
3. Choose who can get in:
   - **All members**: "All members of the workspace can join this team"
   - **Private**: "Only invited workspace members can join this team"
4. Click **Create**. A toast reads **Team created**.

## Add or Remove People in a Private Team

You're a member of a Private team you create. To change who else is in it:

1. Open the team and click its name at the top of the page.
2. Choose **Team members**.
3. Click **Add people** and pick an admin. To remove someone, click the remove icon on their row and confirm **Remove member?**
4. Click **Done**.

You can only add people who are already admins on the workspace. To add a new one, see [Invite your team](https://www.peony.ink/docs/getting-started/invite-your-team). **Team members** only appears on Private teams.

## Who Can See What

- **All members team:** every admin on the workspace.
- **Private team:** its members, plus the workspace **Owner**, who sees every team whether added or not.

This is how you limit an admin to certain data rooms: put those rooms in a Private team and leave that admin out. To shift a room between teams, use [Move](https://www.peony.ink/docs/getting-started/move-a-file-or-folder).

## Change or Delete a Team

Click the team's name at the top of the page. **Team settings** changes the name, description and access; click **Save changes**. **Delete team** warns that it "will permanently delete all team contents for all members and cannot be undone." The workspace's default team has no such menu.

## Notes and Limits

- A Private team must keep at least one member. Removing the last one fails with **You cannot remove the last member from a private team.**
- Teams don't affect your bill. Billing is per admin. See [Admin seats](https://www.peony.ink/docs/account-billing/admin-seats).
- Teams don't change what visitors see. That's set in each room's [Permissions](https://www.peony.ink/docs/features/security/granular-access-control).

## Common Questions

#### How do I stop one admin from seeing a data room?

Put the room in a Private team and don't add that admin. Members only see the Private teams they belong to. The workspace **Owner** sees every team.

#### Is a team the same as a group?

No. A team organizes admins inside your workspace. A group is a set of visitors in a data room's **Permissions** tab.

#### Can I create a team on the Free plan?

No. Creating a team needs the **Business** plan or above.

## Related

- [Invite your team](https://www.peony.ink/docs/getting-started/invite-your-team)
- [Move a file or folder](https://www.peony.ink/docs/getting-started/move-a-file-or-folder)
- [Create a group](https://www.peony.ink/docs/getting-started/create-a-group)
- [Add a file shortcut](https://www.peony.ink/docs/getting-started/add-a-file-shortcut)

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