What are Organizations and Stacks?

An Organization is the top-most entity in the hierarchy of entities in Contentstack. Users, stacks, and the other resources within the stacks are part of an Organization and are managed from a single administrative panel.

A Stack is a repository or a container inside an organization that holds all the content/assets of your site. It allows multiple users to create, edit, approve, and publish their content within a single space.

Understanding with an example

Let's understand this using the below diagram:

Consider a 'Shelf' which consists of a 'Stack of Books.' The shelf helps organize the books. A book can contain content, including text, and images. There can be multiple shelves with different stacks of books. Projects within Contentstack work similarly, where an Organization represents the shelf, and Stacks represent the books.

An Organization can consist of one or more Stacks. Depending on your team's plan, Contentstack also allows you to create multiple organizations with their own stacks(as shown in the diagram above).

Organization and Stacks - Working with Contentstack

The following video shows you how to log into Contentstack for the first time and provides an overview of accessing your Organization and Stacks within Contenstack's UI.

Exercise 1 Video

Follow along with the video to practice accessing your Organization and Stack.

Further Reading

• More About Organizations

• More About Stacks