Build a custom flow for updating an organization

Warning

This guide is for users who want to build a custom user interface using the Clerk API. To use a prebuilt UI, use the Account Portal pages or prebuilt components.

Organization members with appropriate permissions can update an organization.

This guide will demonstrate how to use Clerk's API to build a custom flow for updating an organization.

Next.js

JavaScript

The following example:

Uses the useOrganization() hook to fetch the active organization.
Uses organization to call the update() method with the desired name to update the organization. To see what other attributes can be updated, see the update() reference doc.

This example is written for Next.js App Router but can be adapted for any React-based framework.

app/components/UpdateOrganization.tsx

'use client'

import { useState, useEffect } from 'react'
import { useRouter } from 'next/navigation'
import { useOrganization } from '@clerk/nextjs'

export default function UpdateOrganization() {
  const [name, setName] = useState('')
  const router = useRouter()
  const { organization } = useOrganization()

  useEffect(() => {
    if (!organization) {
      return
    }
    setName(organization.name)
  }, [organization])

  if (!organization) {
    return null
  }

  async function submit(e: React.FormEvent<HTMLFormElement>) {
    e.preventDefault()
    try {
      await organization?.update({ name })
      router.push(`/organizations/${organization?.id}`)
    } catch (err) {
      console.error(err)
    }
  }

  return (
    <div>
      <h1>Update the current organization</h1>
      <form onSubmit={submit}>
        <div>
          <label htmlFor="name">Name</label>
          <input id="name" name="name" value={name} onChange={(e) => setName(e.target.value)} />
        </div>
        <button>Update</button>
      </form>
    </div>
  )
}

The following example uses the organization.update() method to update the active organization's name. To see what other attributes can be updated, see the update() reference doc.

Use the tabs to view the code necessary for the index.html and main.js files.

index.html

main.js

index.html

<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
  <head>
    <meta charset="UTF-8" />
    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0" />
    <title>Clerk + JavaScript App</title>
  </head>
  <body>
    <div id="app"></div>

    <h1>Update the current organization</h1>
    <form id="update-organization">
      <label for="name">Name</label>
      <input id="name" name="name" />
      <button>Update</button>
    </form>

    <script type="module" src="/src/main.js" async crossorigin="anonymous"></script>
  </body>
</html>

main.js

import { Clerk } from '@clerk/clerk-js'

const pubKey = import.meta.env.VITE_CLERK_PUBLISHABLE_KEY

if (!pubKey) {
  throw new Error('Add your VITE_CLERK_PUBLISHABLE_KEY to .env file')
}

const clerk = new Clerk('YOUR_PUBLISHABLE_KEY')
await clerk.load()

if (clerk.user) {
  // Check for an active organization
  if (clerk.organization) {
    const form = document.getElementById('update-organization')

    form.addEventListener('submit', function (e) {
      e.preventDefault()

      const inputEl = document.getElementById('name')

      if (!inputEl) {
        // ... handle empty input
        return
      }

      clerk.organization
        .update({ name: inputEl.value })
        .then((res) => console.log(`Updated org:`, res))
        .catch((error) => console.log('An error occurred:', error))
    })
  } else {
    // If there is no active organization,
    // mount Clerk's <OrganizationSwitcher />
    // to allow the user to set an organization as active
    document.getElementById('app').innerHTML = `
      <h2>Select an organization to set it as active</h2>
      <div id="org-switcher"></div>
    `

    const orgSwitcherDiv = document.getElementById('org-switcher')

    clerk.mountOrganizationSwitcher(orgSwitcherDiv)
  }
} else {
  // If there is no active user, mount Clerk's <SignIn />
  document.getElementById('app').innerHTML = `
    <div id="sign-in"></div>
  `

  const signInDiv = document.getElementById('sign-in')

  clerk.mountSignIn(signInDiv)
}

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Last updated on Feb 17, 2025

Build a custom flow for updating an organization

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