System Administrator Guide

Scope of this guide

This guide is for people setting up, maintaining and upgrading a CiviCRM instance for an organization.

The details of how to install CiviCRM have moved to a separate Installation Guide.

System Administrator Guide vs the User Guide

We also have a User Guide which covers all the functionality available through CiviCRM's web-based interface.

The two guides have some overlapping scope when it comes to setup and configuration. In general, we try to cover actions in the User Guide which the user can perform from within CiviCRM's user interface. Actions that require work outside of the CiviCRM interface (e.g. file-system or shell access) are covered in the System Administrator Guide.

Editing this guide

• This guide is made with MkDocs and stored in a GitLab repository.
• See the "Writing Documentation"" page in the Developer Guide for specific details on editing this guide.

Credits

This guide is collaboratively written by the CiviCRM community, with facilitation from the Documentation Working Group.