There are two types of user account in FAIRsharing: personal accounts for individuals, and organisation-level accounts for those who wish to tie the FAIRsharing account to a general contact or helpdesk email address. Multiple maintainers are allowed, and encouraged, in FAIRsharing records. Individual accounts allow you to link the record to your ORCID, and also give you complete control over the account. However, if a user leaves an organisation, there can be delay involved in finding a suitable replacement. Institutional accounts allow multiple people to have access to a single account via a helpdesk or general contact email address, providing redundancy of ownership as individual members of the resource leave and join the project. However, institutional accounts cannot have ORCIDs linked to them.