# What's the benefit of creating child accounts? **URL:** \ **Category:** Get Help\ **Tags:** child-accounts, child-tenant\ **Created:** [October 16, 2019, 8:20pm UTC](https://community.auth0.com/t/whats-the-benefit-of-creating-child-accounts/32455 "2019-10-16T20:20:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![hidenari.nozaki](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/auth0/user_avatar/community.auth0.com/hidenari.nozaki/32/16840_2.png) [@hidenari.nozaki](https://community.auth0.com/u/hidenari.nozaki)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2019, 8:20pm UTC](https://community.auth0.com/t/whats-the-benefit-of-creating-child-accounts/32455/1 "2019-10-16T20:20:29Z")
In terms of using multiple tenants, what’s the benefit of having child accounts? Since you can create multiple tenants under one account, I’m not what is the benefit of having child accounts. ---
**Author:** ![James.Morrison](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/auth0/user_avatar/community.auth0.com/james.morrison/32/13507_2.png) [@James.Morrison](https://community.auth0.com/u/James.Morrison)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2019, 10:10pm UTC](https://community.auth0.com/t/whats-the-benefit-of-creating-child-accounts/32455/3 "2019-10-16T22:10:41Z")
Hi there @hidenari.nozaki, welcome to the Auth0 Community! The benefit of having chid account is for example having a development, test, or staging tenant that’s linked to a production tenant. This is shared in the below documentation. Please let me know if this helps answer your question! > **[Set Up Multiple Environments](https://auth0.com/docs/get-started/auth0-overview/create-tenants/set-up-multiple-environments)** > > Describes how to use multiple Auth0 tenants to manage various environments. > **[Link Multiple Tenants to a Single Subscription](https://auth0.com/docs/get-started/auth0-overview/create-tenants/child-tenants)** > > Learn how to request linking of multiple tenants under a single Auth0 subscription. ---
**Author:** ![hidenari.nozaki](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/auth0/user_avatar/community.auth0.com/hidenari.nozaki/32/16840_2.png) [@hidenari.nozaki](https://community.auth0.com/u/hidenari.nozaki)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2019, 10:31pm UTC](https://community.auth0.com/t/whats-the-benefit-of-creating-child-accounts/32455/4 "2019-10-16T22:31:26Z")
Thanks for your reply. I’ve gone through those two articles, but I’m still not sure why you want to create child accounts because you can still create multiple tenants without having child accounts, correct? ---
**Author:** ![James.Morrison](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/auth0/user_avatar/community.auth0.com/james.morrison/32/13507_2.png) [@James.Morrison](https://community.auth0.com/u/James.Morrison)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2019, 10:34pm UTC](https://community.auth0.com/t/whats-the-benefit-of-creating-child-accounts/32455/5 "2019-10-16T22:34:36Z")
> [@hidenari.nozaki](#): > > I’ve gone through those two articles, but I’m still not sure why you want to create child accounts because you can still create multiple tenants without having child accounts, correct? That’s correct but then they won’t be linked/associated in the same fashion. ---
**Author:** ![hidenari.nozaki](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/auth0/user_avatar/community.auth0.com/hidenari.nozaki/32/16840_2.png) [@hidenari.nozaki](https://community.auth0.com/u/hidenari.nozaki)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2019, 1:10am UTC](https://community.auth0.com/t/whats-the-benefit-of-creating-child-accounts/32455/6 "2019-10-18T01:10:23Z")
if you don’t create child accounts and create several tenants, how are they linked/associated? ---
**Author:** ![James.Morrison](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/auth0/user_avatar/community.auth0.com/james.morrison/32/13507_2.png) [@James.Morrison](https://community.auth0.com/u/James.Morrison)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2019, 5:16pm UTC](https://community.auth0.com/t/whats-the-benefit-of-creating-child-accounts/32455/7 "2019-10-18T17:16:01Z")
Child tenants, share paid tiers of the subscription plan of the parent tenant. When it comes to juggling multiple tenants it can quickly become complex depending on the app architecture which we would recommend opening a support case at that point (On the paid tier plans). As this would need to be evaluated on a case by case basis for best possible pathway forward. > **[Multi-Tenant Applications Best Practices](https://auth0.com/docs/get-started/auth0-overview/create-tenants/multi-tenant-apps-best-practices)** > > Describes best practices for how to use Auth0 to secure your multi-tenant applications. ---
**Author:** ![hidenari.nozaki](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/auth0/user_avatar/community.auth0.com/hidenari.nozaki/32/16840_2.png) [@hidenari.nozaki](https://community.auth0.com/u/hidenari.nozaki)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2019, 8:24pm UTC](https://community.auth0.com/t/whats-the-benefit-of-creating-child-accounts/32455/8 "2019-10-21T20:24:29Z")
Thank you, James. Now I understand how this works. ---
**Author:** ![James.Morrison](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/auth0/user_avatar/community.auth0.com/james.morrison/32/13507_2.png) [@James.Morrison](https://community.auth0.com/u/James.Morrison)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2019, 1:24pm UTC](https://community.auth0.com/t/whats-the-benefit-of-creating-child-accounts/32455/9 "2019-10-22T13:24:30Z")
Fantastic! Thanks for working with me on this! ---
**Author:** ![James.Morrison](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/auth0/user_avatar/community.auth0.com/james.morrison/32/13507_2.png) [@James.Morrison](https://community.auth0.com/u/James.Morrison)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2019, 1:37pm UTC](https://community.auth0.com/t/whats-the-benefit-of-creating-child-accounts/32455/10 "2019-11-06T13:37:49Z")
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**Author:** ![konrad.sopala](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/auth0/user_avatar/community.auth0.com/konrad.sopala/32/13516_2.png) [@konrad.sopala](https://community.auth0.com/u/konrad.sopala)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2022, 1:10pm UTC](https://community.auth0.com/t/whats-the-benefit-of-creating-child-accounts/32455/11 "2022-04-13T13:10:20Z")
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