SITE ADMIN VS JIRA ADMIN

[Chike Okafor]

I logged into Jira with a new email - expecting that it will create a new jira instance with that email as the site admin, jira admin etc.

However, it made me a jira admin of that instance but made my previous account the site admin.

Why did this happen?

[Nikola Perisic]

Hello @Chike Okafor 

When you create a new organisation, you are automatically a org admin and jira admin.

Here are some differences:

• Org admin - highest admin priveleges: has control over multiple sites where multiple sites are one ogranisation; can manage users and billing and everything else under the admin.atlassian.com
• Jira admin - user that has the Administer Jira global permission; they take care of the workflows, schemes, creating company-managed projects and everything else
• Site admin - They can do everything like org admins, except org admins manage all of the sites, while the site admin manages only one site - unless they are part of more than one site-admin default Jira group