# Adding channel owners

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**Added in** `eventcatalog@2.13.0`

Owners in EventCatalog are either **users** or **teams** and are **optional**.

To add an owner or a team, you need to add the user or team to the owners field of the channel.

## Adding owners using frontmatter[​](#adding-owners-using-frontmatter "Direct link to Adding owners using frontmatter")

To add owners within a channel you need to add them to the `owners` array within your channel frontmatter API.

You need to add the `id` of the owner.

/channels/OrderChannel/index.mdx (example)

```
---
id: OrderChannel
... # other channel frontmatter
owners:
    - dboyne # represents a user
    - webTeam # represents a team
---

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```

Assigning owners to your channels can provide others with context of who owns this channel and how to contact them.

Creating users and teams

EventCatalog gives you the ability to create users and teams. You can read the documentation to get started.