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title: Add or remove a Super Admin
description: "In a newly requested ChurchTools installation, the person with user ID #1 is automatically entered as Super Admin. You can recognise a Super Admin by the red \"Admin\" chip in Manage Permissions. ![](https://help.church.tools/images/157879/4b386875247a678edd9db10ae51a22355c8d74304ef0abaad3cd72fe12759959?fit=max&fm=png&h=0&w=940) In this how-to-guide, you will learn how…"
url: "https://staging.churchtools.academy/en/help/administration/super-admin-en/17-add-or-remove-a-super-admin/"
updated: "2025-09-02"
category: "Super-Admin"
---

# Add or remove a Super Admin

In a newly requested ChurchTools installation, the person with user ID #1 is automatically entered as Super Admin. You can recognise a Super Admin by the red "Admin" chip in Manage Permissions.

![](https://help.church.tools/images/157879/4b386875247a678edd9db10ae51a22355c8d74304ef0abaad3cd72fe12759959?fit=max&fm=png&h=0&w=940)

In this how-to-guide, you will learn how to add a new super admin or remove an existing super admin.

## 1. Check authority to give instructions

Check whether you are registered as an authorised person in your ChurchTools with your current e-mail address.

If not, please register in the System Settings (formerly Admin Settings) under *Data security/Data privacy >> Authority to give instructions* or contact another responsible person in your church and have yourself registered.

**Tip**

For more information on the authority to give instructions and why it is necessary, see "[here](https://staging.churchtools.academy/en/help/system-settings/security/17-authority-to-give-instructions/)".

## 2. Conclude DPA contract

In addition, in order to add/remove a Super Admin, we need to have a completed data processing agreement (DPA) contract with you.

If your church has not yet concluded a DPA with us, we are happy to provide you with our [DPA sample contract and the appendix with the technical and organisational measures (TOM)](https://seafile.church.tools/d/401036967b1f4429a648/). A responsible person can read through it and then send us a signed copy of the AV contract by e-mail or mail.

**Important when completing the DPA**

In Appendix 1 on pages 11 and 12, the crosses must be entered in the appropriate boxes.

## 3. Search for the user ID of the Super Admin

To add or remove a user as a Super Admin in your installation, we need the ID of the user account of the person in question. You can find the ID when you call up the user in Persons & Groups.

In the bottom right corner, the ID is in blue with a hash sign in front of it.

**Note**

If the person you want to register as a Super Admin is authorised to give us instructions for your ChurchTools (i.e. that he or she may authorise database access in the event of support, for example), then please enter the user in the System Settings (formerly Admin Settings) under *Data security/Data privacy >> Authority to give instructions*. 

![](https://help.church.tools/images/157882/0dad9a7b43e39ceefec9371b6c1848653218a81df577c90cc3fe6e7ff2d8c692?fit=max&fm=png&h=0&w=940)

## Send information to support

Once these three points have been clarified, send [this request](https://contact.church.tools/superadmin?language=en) with all the necessary information to our support team, who will then take care of your request.

#### Read more

- [What is a Super Admin?](https://staging.churchtools.academy/en/help/administration/super-admin-en/17-what-is-a-super-admin/)
- [What is the difference between Super Admin and Admin?](https://staging.churchtools.academy/en/help/administration/super-admin/21-what-ist-the-difference-between-super-admin-and-admin/)
- [Authority to give instructions](https://staging.churchtools.academy/en/help/system-settings/security/17-authority-to-give-instructions/)