# Adding service owners

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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 service.

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

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

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

/services/OrderService/index.mdx (example)

```
---
id: OrderService
... # other service frontmatter
owners:
    - dboyne # represents a user
    - webTeam # represents a team
---

<!-- Markdown contents... -->
```

Assigning owners to your services can provide others with context of who owns this service 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.