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# Adding & linking a new company

## Introduction

If you are a Patchworks partner and you have the [partner features subscription bolt-on](/product-documentation/getting-started/subscription-tier-limits.md) associated with your subscription, you can create new companies that are linked to your own profile. Having created a new linked company profile, you can go on to manage [subscription settings](#stage-2-set-subscription-details), [team member access](/product-documentation/users-roles-and-permissions/managing-team-members-and-users-for-multi-company-profiles/working-with-your-team-members.md), and ['native' company users](/product-documentation/users-roles-and-permissions/managing-team-members-and-users-for-multi-company-profiles/working-with-native-company-users.md).

## Need to know

* Your [partner features subscription bolt-on](/product-documentation/getting-started/subscription-tier-limits.md) is associated with an allowance for the number of companies that can be created in each subscription tier.
* If you don't have the [partner features subscription bolt-on](/product-documentation/getting-started/subscription-tier-limits.md) but require new linked companies to be added, please contact your Patchworks Partner Manager.

## The steps

The steps to add a new, linked company profile are summarised below:

* [Stage 1: Create a new company profile](#stage-1-create-a-new-company-profile)
* [Stage 2: Access the new company profile](#stage-2-access-the-new-company-profile)
* [Stage 3: Add users & review team member access](#stage-3-add-users-and-review-team-member-access)
* [Stage 4: Set subscription details](#stage-4-set-subscription-details)

### Stage 1: Create a new company profile

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**Log in & switch to your partner profile**

Log in to the Patchworks dashboard using your own Patchworks credentials and ensure that you are [switched into your own company profile](/product-documentation/company-management/multi-company-profiles/switching-in-and-out-of-a-linked-company.md).

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If you've been working in a managed company, click the arrow associated with your current company name, then select the `switch companies` option, followed by `switch to original company`:

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For more detailed steps, please refer to [Switching back to your own company](/product-documentation/company-management/multi-company-profiles/switching-in-and-out-of-a-linked-company.md#switching-back-to-your-own-company).
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**Access your managed companies list**

In the top-left corner, click the arrow associated with your current company name and select the `switch companies` option:

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**Start company creation**

Click the `create company` button at the top of your `managed companies` page:

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**Enter company details**

Complete `general` details for this company - for example:

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Any email address provided here is used as the Patchworks point of contact for your company.
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**Save the new company**

Click `create company` to save the company profile.
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**Exit back to your managed companies list**

Use breadcrumbs at the top of the page to exit back to your `manage companies` list:

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### Stage 2: Access the new company profile

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**Switch to the new company**

Use the 'switch' icon associated with the new company to switch into that profile - for example:

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**Access profile details**

In the top-left corner, click the arrow associated with the new company name and select the `[[company]] profile` option. For example:

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Company profile information is displayed for the new company, ready to review/update [user access](#stage-2-access-the-new-company-profile) and [subscription details](#stage-3-add-users-and-review-team-member-access).
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### Stage 3: Add users & review team member access

Having switched to the new managed company and accessed profile information, move down to the `extra` panel.

If you need to [create 'native' users](/product-documentation/users-roles-and-permissions/managing-team-members-and-users-for-multi-company-profiles/working-with-native-company-users/creating-a-new-native-user-for-a-linked-company.md) for the company who can then log in directly and access their own dashboard, select the `users` tab. For example:

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For information about working with managed company users, please refer to [Working with 'native' company users](/product-documentation/users-roles-and-permissions/managing-team-members-and-users-for-multi-company-profiles/working-with-native-company-users.md).
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All team members associated with your partner profile are granted access to the new company, automatically. To review and update team access, select the `team members with access` tab. For example:

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For information about working with team members, please refer to [Working with your team members](/product-documentation/users-roles-and-permissions/managing-team-members-and-users-for-multi-company-profiles/working-with-your-team-members.md).
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### Stage 4: Set subscription details

By default, new company profiles are associated with a `trial` subscription. To update this, select the `subscriptions` tab:

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From here, you can choose the appropriate subscription.

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The number of `trial`, `standard` and `professional` tier profiles allowed is determined by your own partner/managing company profile. For information about subscription tiers, please refer to our [Core subscription tiers](/product-documentation/getting-started/subscription-tier-limits.md) page.
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