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# Multi-Entity Setup with Pleo

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<WarningCallout title="This page has now been ARCHIVED. Please visit:">
  * **[Multi-Entity and API Scope](/docs/current/platform/multi-entity/multi-entity-and-api-scope)**
</WarningCallout>

This topic describes the difference between a company and an organisation and how Pleo supports businesses that have multiple subsidiaries.

## Difference between Company and Organisation

| Company                                                                                                                                                                                                              | Organisation                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              |
| :------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | :------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
| A single entity of a business, identified by a `company_id` maintained in Pleo.<br /><br />For example, A company named Alexey Software has a single entity and operates from a single location, the United Kingdom. | Multiple entities of a business, identified by `organisation_id` maintained in Pleo.<br /><br />For example, Love Creme Brulee is an organisation that has multiple subsidiaries and operates in different regions of Europe - Netherlands, Germany, and Belgium. The organisation Love Creme Brulee is assigned an `organisation_id` and each entity is assigned a `company_id`. An admin of Love Creme Brulee would have the privileges to view details of each entity. |

## How Pleo Supports Organisations?

We have implemented **multi-entity support** for organisations to optimally use Pleo as their spend management platform; a single Pleo account might have multiple entities with the following:

* Different accounting entries for each entity
* Different employees and vendors for each entity
* Different integrations for each entity

## Company and Organisation Specific Integrations

* **Third-party ERP/accounting** integrations with Pleo could be connected at the company level, implying `company_id` is used when connecting a Pleo account with a third-party ERP/accounting application.
* For **HRIS/user-management** integrations, the Pleo account could be connected both at organisation and company levels. If a business has only a single entity, HRIS integrations for this specific customer are done at the company level.

<NoteCallout title="Note">Each integration with Pleo can be authenticated either by API keys or OAuth 2.0. Hence, for accounting integrations, both API keys and OAuth 2.0 are generated at the company level; so, if an organisation has multi-entity set up, the authentication credentials are valid only for the entity for whom they are generated.</NoteCallout>

## Related Topic

For more information on this, refer [here](https://help.pleo.io/en/support/solutions/articles/103000254598-what-is-multi-entity-management-).