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# Organizations

[Documentation](https://www.quantconnect.com/docs/v2.md) > [Cloud Platform](https://www.quantconnect.com/docs/v2/cloud-platform.md) > Organizations

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An organization is a collection of members that share hardware resources, share access to datasets, and collaborate together to develop projects. Hardware resources are used to run backtests, launch research notebooks, deploy live trading algorithms, and store project data. You can create new organizations or join any number of existing ones. We offer several organization tiers so you can tailor your team's subscriptions as you grow over time. For the times when you need access to a QuantConnect engineer to help solve development issues, assign support seats among your team. The organization owner has several special permissions, which includes defining the [out-of-sample backtest period](https://www.quantconnect.com/docs/v2/cloud-platform/organizations/administration.md#12-Out-of-Sample-Period) to avoid overfitting.

- [Getting Started](https://www.quantconnect.com/docs/v2/cloud-platform/organizations/getting-started.md): Learn the basics
- [Tier Features](https://www.quantconnect.com/docs/v2/cloud-platform/organizations/tier-features.md): Tiers to serve all team sizes
- [Resources](https://www.quantconnect.com/docs/v2/cloud-platform/organizations/resources.md): Share hardware nodes to research and trade
- [Object Store](https://www.quantconnect.com/docs/v2/cloud-platform/organizations/object-store.md): File system that you can use in your algorithms to save, read, and delete data
- [Support](https://www.quantconnect.com/docs/v2/cloud-platform/organizations/support.md): Connect with QC experts
- [Members](https://www.quantconnect.com/docs/v2/cloud-platform/organizations/members.md): Effectively manage your team
- [Administration](https://www.quantconnect.com/docs/v2/cloud-platform/organizations/administration.md): Manage your organization
- [Billing](https://www.quantconnect.com/docs/v2/cloud-platform/organizations/billing.md): Configure your QC services
- [Credit](https://www.quantconnect.com/docs/v2/cloud-platform/organizations/credit.md): Gift to others or spend on QC services
- [Training](https://www.quantconnect.com/docs/v2/cloud-platform/organizations/training.md): Get team members up to speed

### See Also

- [Collaboration](https://www.quantconnect.com/docs/v2/cloud-platform/projects/collaboration.md)
- [Learning Center](https://www.quantconnect.com/docs/v2/cloud-platform/learning-center/training.md)

## Pages in This Section

- [Getting Started](https://www.quantconnect.com/docs/v2/cloud-platform/organizations/getting-started.md): An organization is a collection of members that share hardware resources, share access to datasets, and collaborate together to develop projects.
- [Tier Features](https://www.quantconnect.com/docs/v2/cloud-platform/organizations/tier-features.md): Organizations let you coordinate resources and teamwork on QuantConnect Cloud. There are 5 tiers of organizations and each tier has its own set of features.
- [Resources](https://www.quantconnect.com/docs/v2/cloud-platform/organizations/resources.md): Organizations can subscribe to hardware resources to run backtests, launch research notebooks, and deploy live trading algorithms to co-located servers.
- [Object Store](https://www.quantconnect.com/docs/v2/cloud-platform/organizations/object-store.md): The Object Store is an organization-specific key-value storage location to save and retrieve data in QuantConnect's cache. It's similar to a hash table.
- [Support](https://www.quantconnect.com/docs/v2/cloud-platform/organizations/support.md): For more personalized assistance and privacy, you can submit support tickets to request assistance from a QuantConnect engineer. You just need a support seat.
- [Members](https://www.quantconnect.com/docs/v2/cloud-platform/organizations/members.md): Organizations consist of members and members can be part of multiple organizations. The number of members your organization can have depends on its tier.
- [Administration](https://www.quantconnect.com/docs/v2/cloud-platform/organizations/administration.md): You can manage your organizations from the Algorithm Lab. The algorithms you store in the Algorithm Lab are secure and you maintain their intellectual property.
- [Billing](https://www.quantconnect.com/docs/v2/cloud-platform/organizations/billing.md): The owner of an organization is responsible for the billing, but the responsibility can be delegated in Trading Firm or Institution organizations.
- [Credit](https://www.quantconnect.com/docs/v2/cloud-platform/organizations/credit.md): We created QuantConnect Credit (QCC) to enable micropayments on QuantConnect. You can use QCC to optimize parameters, download datasets, and more.
- [Training](https://www.quantconnect.com/docs/v2/cloud-platform/organizations/training.md): Onboard new team members to your organization through the content in the Learning Center. The Learning Center enables you to monitor the progress of your team.