Organization Settings & Inheritance

Organization settings cascade down to child teams automatically. Lower-level settings override higher ones.

Written By Matt Sywulak

Last updated 11 days ago

How to Tell You're in an Organization

Building icon appears next to the organization name in the team selector. Settings pages show: "You are currently configuring settings for the entire [Org Name] organization, which may affect up to [X] descendant teams."

The Three Inheritance Icons

  • Globe - Inheriting INKY's default global policy

  • Skyscraper - Overriding global policy, applies to all child teams

  • People - Local team override, applies only to this team

Override Mechanics

From Organization Level: Changes apply to all child teams. INKY shows a warning popup before saving organization-wide settings.

From Team Level: Any team can override inherited settings. Team-level changes only affect that specific team and don't flow up or sideways.

Priority: Team settings > Organization settings > Global settings

Settings That Merge Instead of Override

A few settings combine down the hierarchy rather than replacing what the organization set. For these, the editable field on a team holds only that team's own entries, and the entries inherited from the organization appear beneath it in a read-only list.

  • Known External Senders

  • Trusted Third-Party Senders

  • Blocked country codes

  • Blocked TLDs

Both sets apply when INKY analyzes mail. This means a team can add its own entries without re-entering the organization's, and can't accidentally drop an organization-wide entry by editing its own list.

Excluding an inherited entry for one team

You can now stop a specific inherited entry from applying to a single team without changing it at the organization level. Inherited entries appear as read-only tokens beneath the team's own list; click the × on a token to exclude that entry for this team (the token turns muted red to show it's excluded), and click × again to restore it. Exclusions affect only the team where you set them — the organization-level entry is never modified, so other teams keep inheriting it.

Currently supported for Known External Senders, Blocked country codes, and Blocked TLDs. Trusted Third-Party Senders doesn't yet support per-team exclusions.

Organization Profiles

Each organization starts with a base template inherited from its parent organization (or INKY Global if it's a root org). Configure once at the org level; teams inherit automatically unless overridden.