# Create, rename, switch and delete workspaces

> Make a workspace for each client or project, move between them from the menu, and rename or delete the ones you no longer need.

Source: https://www.chirpbuilder.com/help/business-teams/manage-workspaces  
Plans: Creator, Business, Academy  
Last checked: 2026-10-27

When you're done, each client or project has its own workspace, and you can move between them.

**Who can do this:** the account owner, on Creator, Business and Academy (the plans with more than one
workspace). Team members can switch between the workspaces shared with them, but they can't create,
rename or delete workspaces.

## Create a workspace

1. Open **Settings** and find **Workspaces**.
2. Type a name in the box at the bottom (1), for example the client's name. Up to 60 characters, and
   different from your other workspaces' names.
3. Click **Create workspace** (2). The new workspace opens straight away: "… created. You're now working
   in it."

![The Workspaces card with Lakeside Bakery typed in the box for a new workspace's name (1), and Create workspace (2), below Main workspace, Harbor Dental and Pine Street Gym.](https://mjmtbasmrtksluvlnema.supabase.co/storage/v1/object/public/help-media/web-optimized/business-teams/manage-workspaces/SS-TEAM-010-01__create__business__detail__v01.webp?v=7ebf008e9f)

When every workspace in your plan is in use, the box is replaced by "You're using all … workspaces in
your plan. Delete one you don't need to make another." See
[how many each plan has](https://www.chirpbuilder.com/help/business-teams/workspaces).

## Switch workspaces

The **Workspace** box at the top of the menu (1) shows the workspace you're working in. Click it and
choose another one (2). Workspaces other people shared with you are listed under **Shared with you**.
**Manage workspaces** (3) opens the Workspaces card in Settings.

![Priya's Chirps page in Main workspace with the Workspace box at the top of the menu (1) open: Your workspaces lists Main workspace (ticked), Harbor Dental (2) and Pine Street Gym, then Manage workspaces (3).](https://mjmtbasmrtksluvlnema.supabase.co/storage/v1/object/public/help-media/web-optimized/business-teams/manage-workspaces/SS-TEAM-010-02__switcher__business__desktop__v01.webp?v=da1b9ebf9e)

You can also click **Open** next to a workspace in Settings. The one you're in is marked **Open now**.

The open workspace decides what you see on the Dashboard, Chirps, [Collections](https://www.chirpbuilder.com/help/start-here/glossary#collection), Academy, Analytics,
Leads and Import pages, and in Settings under
**Public branding**, **Email services** and **Custom domains**. Pages name it, for example "Chirps in
Harbor Dental."

Your choice is remembered in this browser. In another browser or on another device, you start in your
main workspace.

## Rename a workspace

1. In **Workspaces**, click the pencil button next to its name (1).
2. Change the name and click **Save** ("Renamed"), or **Cancel**.

You can rename every workspace, the main one included. Links to your Chirps don't change.

![Priya's three workspaces, with the pencil button (1) and the trash button (2) of Pine Street Gym outlined.](https://mjmtbasmrtksluvlnema.supabase.co/storage/v1/object/public/help-media/web-optimized/business-teams/manage-workspaces/SS-TEAM-010-03__rename-delete__business__detail__v01.webp?v=9daa9bcf05)

## Delete a workspace

You can delete any workspace except your main one, once it's empty:

1. Move or delete its Chirps, archived ones included: see
   [Move a Chirp to another workspace](https://www.chirpbuilder.com/help/chirps/move-to-workspace) and
   [Duplicate, archive or delete a Chirp](https://www.chirpbuilder.com/help/chirps/duplicate-archive-delete).
2. Delete its Collections. If it has a [custom domain](https://www.chirpbuilder.com/help/start-here/glossary#custom-domain), open the workspace and remove the domain in
   **Settings**, **Custom domains**.
3. Download its leads and delete them on the **Leads** page: see
   [The Leads page and exporting leads](https://www.chirpbuilder.com/help/collections-leads/leads-page).
4. On the Academy plan, remove its courses and students on the **Academy** page.
5. Click the trash button next to the workspace (2) and confirm: "Delete the workspace "…"? It must be
   empty first. Its email service connections are deleted with it." You see "Workspace deleted".

Its folders, its email service connections, its branding and its own [OpenRouter](https://www.chirpbuilder.com/help/start-here/glossary#openrouter) key are deleted with
it. Team members lose access to it, and an event webhook that only got events from it is switched off.
Anyone who could open only this workspace stays on your team and keeps a seat: give them another
workspace or remove them in **Team**. There's no undo.

## If it doesn't work

- **"Give the workspace a name"** or **"Workspace names can be up to 60 characters"**
- **"You already have a workspace called "…""** Names count as the same whatever their capital letters.
- **"More workspaces come with the Creator, Business and Academy plans."**
- **"Your plan includes … workspaces. Delete one you don't need, or upgrade for more."**
- **"The main workspace can't be deleted."**
- **"… still has 2 Chirps. Move or delete them first."**
- **"… still has 1 Collection. Delete them first."**
- **"… still has a custom domain. Remove it in Settings first."**
- **"… still has 3 leads, which would be deleted with it. Download them from the Leads page and delete
  them there first."**
- **"… still has an Academy with 2 courses and 5 students, which would be deleted with it. Remove them
  on the Academy page first."**
- **"Couldn't create the workspace."** or **"Couldn't rename the workspace."** Try again in a minute.