---
title: "Send an invitation to join an organization - Xata"
description: "Send an invitation email to a user to join an organization."
source: "https://xata.io/docs/api-reference/organizations/send-an-invitation-to-join-an-organization"
---

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POST

/

organizations

/

{organizationID}

/

invitations

Send an invitation to join an organization

```
curl --request POST
  --url https://api.xata.tech/organizations/{organizationID}/invitations
  --header 'Authorization: Bearer <token>'
  --header 'Content-Type: application/json'
  --data '
{
  "email": "jsmith@example.com"
}
'
```

```
import requests

url = "https://api.xata.tech/organizations/{organizationID}/invitations"

payload = { "email": "jsmith@example.com" }
headers = {
    "Authorization": "Bearer <token>",
    "Content-Type": "application/json"
}

response = requests.post(url, json=payload, headers=headers)

print(response.text)
```

```
const options = {
  method: 'POST',
  headers: {Authorization: 'Bearer <token>', 'Content-Type': 'application/json'},
  body: JSON.stringify({email: 'jsmith@example.com'})
};

fetch('https://api.xata.tech/organizations/{organizationID}/invitations', options)
  .then(res => res.json())
  .then(res => console.log(res))
  .catch(err => console.error(err));
```

```
<?php

$curl = curl_init();

curl_setopt_array($curl, [
  CURLOPT_URL => "https://api.xata.tech/organizations/{organizationID}/invitations",
  CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
  CURLOPT_ENCODING => "",
  CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10,
  CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 30,
  CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,
  CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => "POST",
  CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS => json_encode([
    'email' => 'jsmith@example.com'
  ]),
  CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => [
    "Authorization: Bearer <token>",
    "Content-Type: application/json"
  ],
]);

$response = curl_exec($curl);
$err = curl_error($curl);

curl_close($curl);

if ($err) {
  echo "cURL Error #:" . $err;
} else {
  echo $response;
}
```

```
package main

import (
	"fmt"
	"strings"
	"net/http"
	"io"
)

func main() {

	url := "https://api.xata.tech/organizations/{organizationID}/invitations"

	payload := strings.NewReader("{\n  \"email\": \"jsmith@example.com\"\n}")

	req, _ := http.NewRequest("POST", url, payload)

	req.Header.Add("Authorization", "Bearer <token>")
	req.Header.Add("Content-Type", "application/json")

	res, _ := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)

	defer res.Body.Close()
	body, _ := io.ReadAll(res.Body)

	fmt.Println(string(body))

}
```

```
HttpResponse<String> response = Unirest.post("https://api.xata.tech/organizations/{organizationID}/invitations")
  .header("Authorization", "Bearer <token>")
  .header("Content-Type", "application/json")
  .body("{\n  \"email\": \"jsmith@example.com\"\n}")
  .asString();
```

```
require 'uri'
require 'net/http'

url = URI("https://api.xata.tech/organizations/{organizationID}/invitations")

http = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port)
http.use_ssl = true

request = Net::HTTP::Post.new(url)
request["Authorization"] = 'Bearer <token>'
request["Content-Type"] = 'application/json'
request.body = "{\n  \"email\": \"jsmith@example.com\"\n}"

response = http.request(request)
puts response.read_body
```

```
{
  "message": "<string>",
  "id": "<string>"
}
```

```
{
  "message": "invalid API key"
}
```

```
{
  "message": "invalid API key"
}
```

```
{
  "message": "<string>",
  "id": "<string>"
}
```

```
{
  "message": "<string>",
  "id": "<string>"
}
```

#### Authorizations

​

Authorization

string

header

required

The access token received from the authorization server in the OAuth 2.0 flow.

#### Path Parameters

​

organizationID

string

required

Unique identifier for a specific organization

Pattern: `[a-zA-Z0-9_-~:]+`

#### Body

application/json

​

email

string\<email>

required

Email address of the user to invite

#### Response

Invitation sent successfully

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