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# About company structure & organizational hierarchy

> [!NOTE]
> Organizational Hierarchy is available by request
> 
> Organizations, organizational hierarchy, and production entities are available by request. If you don't see these settings in your Company settings, contact your Customer Success Manager or the [Wrapbook Support Team](/v1/docs/how-to-get-help-using-wrapbook).

## Overview

If your company has a complex structure, Wrapbook's *Organizational Hierarchy* helps you set it up correctly. It includes:

- **Organizations (Organizational Units, or OUs)**: used to manage *visibility and access* (who can see/do what)
- **Production Entities (PEs)**: used to represent *legal and financial entities* (who is legally employing/payrolling workers)

Many companies only need a simple structure (one company with a single legal entity and no additional organizations). Organizational Hierarchy is intended for companies that are **one parent company** with **multiple divisions and/or multiple legal entities**.

## Key definitions

### Company (your Wrapbook company)

Your Wrapbook company is the top-level account that contains your projects, people, organizations (OUs), and production entities (PEs).

### Organization (OU)

An *Organizational Unit* is a division or business unit inside your company.

Organizational units help you:

- Establish well-defined access controls that govern which team members can view and interact with projects within each organizational unit
- Model internal structure (for example, division heads)
- Assign org-specific settings in Wrapbook where available (for example, approval workflows may be scoped to an organizational unit so that the workflow is only available to projects within that organizational unit)

### Production Entity (PE)

A *Production Entity* is a **legal entity** (typically with its own EIN/FEIN and address, and often separate banking) that can be assigned to projects for payroll and legal responsibility.

Production entities help you:

- Ensure the correct **legal employer** appears in the right places
- Route payroll and certain project-related transactions under the correct entity

## The simplest way to remember the difference

- **Organizations (OUs) = "who sees what"**
- **Production Entities (PEs) = "who legally pays whom"**

Organizations control access and structure. Production entities control legal/financial identity.

## How projects use OUs and PEs

Each **project** can use both concepts:

- A project is typically **assigned to one Production Entity** (for legal/employer context)
- A project can also be **associated with an Organization** (for access/visibility and grouping)

This means you can, for example:

- Keep two divisions from seeing each other's projects using Organizations
- Still run payroll under multiple different legal entities using Production Entities

## Common scenarios

### One company with multiple divisions (access control is the goal)

**Example:** A studio has separate teams (Commercials vs. Unscripted) and wants each team to see only their own projects.

**Use:** Organizations (OUs)

- Create an organization for each division
- Assign projects to the right organization
- Assign users to the organization(s) they should access

### Scenario: Multiple EINs/legal entities (legal + payroll routing is the goal)

**Example:** A studio operates multiple legal entities and needs each show's payroll under the correct EIN.

**Use:** Production Entities (PEs)

- Create a production entity for each legal entity
- Assign each project to the correct production entity

### Scenario: Both divisions and multiple legal entities

**Example:** A parent company has multiple divisions, and each division operates multiple legal entities.

**Use:** Both

- Organizations: set who can see/manage which projects
- Production Entities: set which legal entity is responsible for payroll on each project

## What Organizational Hierarchy is *not*

Organizational Hierarchy is not designed for:

- Combining **unrelated businesses** into one Wrapbook company
- Creating complete "isolation" like separate companies across entirely separate clients

If productions do not roll up to one parent company, you may need **separate Wrapbook companies**.

## Where to manage these settings

### Manage Production Entities

Navigate to **Company settings** and look for **Production entities**. To learn more, see [About production entities](/v1/docs/about-production-entities#access-production-entities).

### Manage Organizations (Organizational structure)

Navigate to **Company settings** and look for **Organizations** under Permissions and Access Control. To learn more, see [About organizations](/v1/docs/about-organizations#access-organizations).

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