---
title: Journey designer plan configuration owners
description: Plan configuration owners create and update plan configurations and publish changes.
locale: en-US
canonical_url: https://www.servicenow.com/docs/r/australia/employee-service-management/journey-designer/jny-dsgnr-owner-role-and-responsibility.html
release: australia
product: Journey Designer
classification: journey-designer
topic_type: concept
last_updated: "2026-03-12"
reading_time_minutes: 1
breadcrumb: [Plan configuration components, Use, Journey designer, Employee Journey Management, HR Service Delivery, Employee Service Management]
---

# Journey designer plan configuration owners

Plan configuration owners create and update plan configurations and publish changes.

ServiceNow application administrators [assign plan configuration owners](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/employee-service-management/journey-designer/jny-assign-pconfig-owner-approver.md). The owners of a plan configuration publish updates for review and approval. The decentralized approach to plan configuration ownership and approval supports a workflow for area experts to customize and maintain plan configurations. These plan configurations are called journey templates in the Employee Center .

-   **Owner**

    Owners are assigned by ServiceNow administrators. A plan configuration owner has expertise related to the plan configuration needs of a logical area.

-   **Co-owner**

    Co-owners are assigned by ServiceNow administrators and have all the responsibilities of an owner.


-   **[Update and publish changes to plan configurations](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/employee-service-management/journey-designer/jny-dsgnr-update-and-publish-plncnfg.md)**  
Plan owners update plan configurations and publish the changes for review and approval.
-   **[Create and update task templates for plan configurations](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/employee-service-management/journey-designer/jny-dsgnr-create-and-update-task-templates.md)**  
Plan owners create and update task templates that are used in plan configurations.
-   **[Add or update stages in a journey plan configurations](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/employee-service-management/journey-designer/jny-dsgnr-create-and-modify-plncnfgrtn-stages.md)**  
Owners add or update the stages in journey plan configurations.

**Parent Topic:**[Journey designer plan configuration template process, owners, and maintenance](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/employee-service-management/journey-designer/jny-process-owners-maint.md)