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title: "Deleting users as an administrator"
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This is a brief step-by-step guide on how to delete users in your organisation.

> 📝 **Note:** It is required for your user to have the role ‘Organisation administrator’ in order to add users to your organisation.

### To delete users as an Organisation administrator. 

1. Click the settings icon  in the navigation menu to the left.
2. Click *User management* under *General settings*
3. Click on the 3 dots next to the user you wish to edit, and then click *Delete*.
4. A warning message will appear for you to confirm that you wish to delete this user.

> ⚠️ This is will delete the user entirely including all their licence subscriptions and **monitoring profiles.** Instead, you may wish to remove a user's subscriptions rather than removing them altogether, [https://mercell.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/MKB/pages/196471652379/How+to+review+and+edit+your+Organisation+s+Subscriptions?atlOrigin=eyJpIjoiMTQzNjUwNWQ3OTQ2NDMwMThmZjBiN2Y0Njk4N2I5ZGYiLCJwIjoiYyJ9](https://mercell.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/MKB/pages/196471652379/How+to+review+and+edit+your+Organisation+s+Subscriptions?atlOrigin=eyJpIjoiMTQzNjUwNWQ3OTQ2NDMwMThmZjBiN2Y0Njk4N2I5ZGYiLCJwIjoiYyJ9)   
> ⚠️ 
> ⚠️ Before deleting a user who is the **sole owner** of a monitoring profile, you must first **share the profile with other users** to establish a new owner. The profile cannot exist without an active owner.

<span style="color: #97a0af">*Article Reference: 090720251017*</span>