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title: How to connect my ChurchTools to another ChurchTools installation
description: "Sync allows you to connect one or more other ChurchTools installations to your installation. ## Basics - The connection is two-way reading and writing, depending on the configuration. - To establish the connection, you will need the login token of…"
url: "https://staging.churchtools.academy/en/help/churchtools-modules/configure-connections/10-how-do-i-connect-my-churchtools-to-another-churchtools-installation/"
updated: "2025-09-19"
category: Sync / Configure Connections
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# How to connect my ChurchTools to another ChurchTools installation

Sync allows you to connect one or more other ChurchTools installations to your installation.

## Basics

- The connection is two-way reading and writing, depending on the configuration.
- To establish the connection, you will need the login token of a user from this other installation in any case. We recommend that you create a new person in the external ChurchTools installation (e.g. named "sync user") and give this person sufficient permissions. The login token of the new person can then be found under the following path: \*Persons & Groups > Persons > e.g. "sync user" > Permissions > Login token.
- Our [instructions](https://staging.churchtools.academy/en/help/churchtools-modules/configure-connections/10-how-to-find-the-sync-user-s-login-token/) for this also contains a list of the necessary permissions for the sync user.

## This is how it works

### 1. Contacting the admin of the other ChurchTools installation

First contact the admin of the other ChurchTools installation and share these [instructions](https://staging.churchtools.academy/en/help/churchtools-modules/configure-connections/10-how-to-find-the-sync-user-s-login-token/) with him. This describes how he can create and authorise the sync user and send you the login token.

### 2. Connect system

As soon as you have the token, create the connection to this other installation via *+ Connect system*.

![](https://staging.churchtools.academy/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/image-38.png)

To do this, enter here

- a name for the connection (1),
- the URL of the other installation (e.g. `https://yourchurch.church.tools`) (2) and
- the login token (3) that you received from the admin of the other installation.

### 3. Test the connection

Finally, test the connection and create the first jobs.

#### Read more

- [How to create a job](https://staging.churchtools.academy/en/help/churchtools-modules/configure-jobs/10-how-to-create-a-job/)
- [How to execute a sync job](https://staging.churchtools.academy/en/help/churchtools-modules/configure-jobs/10-how-to-have-my-job-executed/)
- [How to find the sync user’s login token](https://staging.churchtools.academy/en/help/churchtools-modules/configure-connections/10-how-to-find-the-sync-user-s-login-token/)