How to hand over a meeting or a channel to another host — mid-call or when someone leaves the company (2026)

The weekly customer call was created by someone who is on leave; the channel with the partner belongs to an account that is being offboarded. If you searched "change the meeting host" or "transfer a channel to another owner", the short answer for InterMIND is Make host in the member drawer: the room, its link, its chat and its recaps stay exactly where they are, and a colleague becomes the host — in one click, even in the middle of a call. This guide is the rest: who can hand over to whom, the one rule behind it, what changes for the participants, and where it is recorded.

What the host is

The host of a meeting or channel is three things at once: the person the room bills to — translation minutes, storage and every other allowance of the room count against the host's plan; the person with the host controls — admitting guests, muting participants, setting participant permissions, ending the meeting for all; and the person who manages the members of a channel. Handing over the room hands over all three.

Hand over a meeting or a channel

1. Open the member drawer. Click the participant avatars in the chat header, or right-click the channel in the sidebar → Manage group.
2. Pick the colleague and choose Make host.
3. Confirm. The dialog says what changes: they will manage members and settings from now on; the current host becomes a regular participant; limits and translation minutes stay with your team's plan.

Everyone in the room sees "name is now the host". Nothing else moves: the link is the same, the chat and the recaps stay with the room, the participants stay members.

Mid-call

A hand-over during a live meeting takes effect on the spot. The new host becomes the meeting's moderator immediately — the host controls flip to them — and the previous host stays in the call as a presenter. Billing and limits already resolve per request from the new host, and because the new host bills to the same account, nothing shifts for the room.

The one rule: same team, paid plan

The host is the room's billing sponsor, so the room can only be handed to someone who bills to the same account. The gate, in the order the dialog checks it:

So the path for offboarding is: the leaver's rooms are handed to a licensed colleague by the leaver, or by a team admin on their behalf — the admin does not need to be a participant to do it, only an admin of the host's team.

Where it is recorded

Every hand-over is written to the team's audit log as a host transfer — who did it, from whom, to whom, for which room — next to the other membership events. The audit log documentation describes what the log keeps and who can read it.

FAQ

Can I change the host of a meeting during the call? Yes. Open the member drawer, pick the colleague and choose Make host. They become the moderator on the spot; the previous host stays in the call as a participant.

Who can hand over a room? The host, or an admin of the host's team — for example to reassign the rooms of someone who has left the company.

Can I make a guest or an outside participant the host? No. The new host must be a licensed member of the same team, because the host is the account the room bills to. The current host's plan must be a paid one.

What happens to the recaps and the chat history? Nothing. The room keeps its link, its chat and every recap; only the host changes.

Does the previous host lose access? No. They become a regular participant of the room and keep reading it like any other member.

Try it

• Try the live demo — a real InterMIND meeting in the browser, no signup needed.
• Channels and members — the member drawer, invites, archiving.
• Team audit log — what the log records.
• How to add an external client to a team chat channel — membership from the other side.