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title: "Consumer"
slug: "consumer-organizations"
updated: 2025-06-04T10:57:24Z
published: 2025-06-04T10:57:24Z
canonical: "bobsled.com/consumer-organizations"
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> ## Documentation Index
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# Consumer organizations

In Bobsled, a **consumer organization** references the organization where data is transferred with a [Share](/v2/docs/share-list-overview). Learn how to [create and manage consumer organizations](/v2/docs/create-and-manage-consumers).

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## Overview

Adding a consumer organization to a share is not required, but it brings the following benefits:

- Easier to manage your [Shares](/v2/docs/share-list-overview) by filtering and sorting by a consumer organization, and also confirm how many shares have been created with that consumer.
  - If you have [multi-tenant filtering](/v2/docs/multi-tenant-filtering) enabled for your environment, the consumer organization details will be used to filter views.
- Shares that do not have a consumer organization selected count as a distinct **Monthly Active Consumer (MAC)** concerning billing. Multiple shares with the same consumer would only count once toward the Monthly Active Consumer count.

> [!NOTE]
> **NOTE:** Currently, there is no relationship between a Consumer organization and any Access methods (such as ARNs or Snowflake accounts) in a given share. Reach out to your account team if you have any questions or require more information.