You can upgrade your organization to a paid plan with unlimited private repositories, and optionally, sophisticated user authentication and management, 24/5 support, and a service level agreement for uptime availability.
Note: Only organization members with the owner or billing manager role can access or change billing settings for your organization.
If you receive a 500 error when trying to upgrade your account:
- Try clearing your browser's cache, then resubmit your information
- Check to make sure you have entered your payment data correctly
If that doesn't resolve the error, please contact GitHub Support.
Upgrading your organization account with a credit card
In the top right corner of GitHub, click your profile photo, then click Your profile.
On the left side of your profile page, under "Organizations", click the icon for your organization.
Under your organization name, click Settings.
In your organization's Settings sidebar, click Billing.
Under "Billing overview", click Upgrade.
If you're upgrading from the free plan, under "Upgrading to", select a billing plan.
Under "Upgrade summary", choose whether you want to pay monthly or yearly.
Optionally, to see your plan's details, click Show details.
Under "Billing information", click Add a Payment Method.
Under "Pay with", type your credit card information.
Click Update credit card.
Optionally, if your organization account is owned by a business, select This account is owned by a business, then type your company's name.
Review the information about the charge and your billing date, then click Upgrade plan to finish upgrading your account.
Upgrading your organization account with PayPal
In the top right corner of GitHub, click your profile photo, then click Your profile.
On the left side of your profile page, under "Organizations", click the icon for your organization.
Under your organization name, click Settings.
In your organization's Settings sidebar, click Billing.
Under "Billing overview", click Upgrade.
If you're upgrading from the free plan, under "Upgrading to", select a billing plan.
Under "Upgrade summary", choose whether you want to pay monthly or yearly.
Optionally, to see your plan's details, click Show details.
Under "Billing information", click Add a Payment Method.
Under "Pay with", select PayPal account.
Click PayPal.
- Log in to PayPal with your account information.
- Agree to the terms of service for paying with PayPal.
- Select your country of residency, as well as your state or province (if you're asked).
- Type your postal code.
If you're a European business, enter your VAT or GST ID.
Click Save PayPal account.
Optionally, if your organization account is owned by a business, select This account is owned by a business, then type your company's name.
Review the information about the charge and your billing date, then click Upgrade plan to finish upgrading your account.
Next steps
If you upgraded your organization to the Business plan, you can now set set up identity and access management for your organization. For more information, see "Managing member identity and access in your organization with SAML SSO."
