> ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.worldassetregister.com/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # People and departments > The directory behind owners, custodians and assignments Assets are held by people, and people belong to departments. **Members** in the sidebar is your whole people directory, not just the people who log in. Members ## Two kinds of member **Invite user** sends a real invitation: an email, a role, and once accepted, a login. **Add non-user member** creates a directory-only person (name, email, employee ID) who can be an asset's owner or custodian without ever holding an account. Both are visible right on the list. Members without a login show a **No login** badge instead of a role. Adding a member Either kind can be marked **Internal** or **External**, useful for telling employees apart from contractors, vendors and other outsiders in filters and reports, and assigned to a department. ## Departments Departments Departments carry the fields finance teams actually need: a department code, **cost centre**, **GL code**, and a department head, plus, like locations, an **expected asset count** to reconcile against what's actually assigned. Clicking **Assets** on a department's row shows everything assigned to it without leaving the list. Departments group people (for headcount, ownership and reporting) the way categories group assets. Set once, useful everywhere: filters, [policies](/operate/policies) and [reports](/operate/reports) can all condition on department. ## Importing your directory For a large team, **Members → Import** runs the same kind of wizard as [asset import](/assets/importing-data). Upload a CSV export, map its columns to member fields, review a dry run, then commit. This builds your whole directory in one pass instead of one invite at a time.