---
title: "Transfer ownership to a member"
method: POST
path: "/api/team/transfer"
---

# Transfer ownership to a member

`POST /api/team/transfer`

## Request

- Base URL: `https://postwire.io`
- URL: `https://postwire.io/api/team/transfer`
- Auth: HTTP bearer

Owner only. Only a person signed in to the dashboard (its session key plus X-PostWire-Source: dashboard): an API key or an AI connector gets 403 team_requires_human, even an admin's. The member becomes the owner (billing, members, deleting the workspace); you become an admin. Type their email in confirm_email.

## Request body

- object
  - `account_id` string, uuid, required
  - `confirm_email` string, email, required

## Response `200`

{ ok, owner, you: { role: admin } }

## Other responses

- `400`: confirmation_required
- `403`: role_forbidden

---

[API](https://skmtc.dev/postwire/apis/postwire-api.md) · [All operations](https://skmtc.dev/postwire/apis/postwire-api/llms.txt) · [OpenAPI document](https://skmtc.dev/postwire/apis/postwire-api/revisions/513a409ab8f7?raw)