--- title: How Does My Golden Data Sync with Virtuous description: Understanding how your Golden data syncs with Virtuous --- [Skip to content](https://support.goldenvolunteer.com/knowledge_base/how-does-my-golden-data-sync-with-virtuous#main-content) English Show submenu for translations [Support Request](https://support.goldenvolunteer.com/knowledge_base/kb-tickets/new?hsLang=en) [Customer Portal](https://support.goldenvolunteer.com/customer?hsLang=en) [![Golden Volunteer](https://support.goldenvolunteer.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Logo-Goldfish-RGB-1.png?width=171&height=50&name=Logo-Goldfish-RGB-1.png)](https://Goldenvolunteer.com) - [Blog](https://goldenvolunteer.com/blog/) - [Ebooks](https://goldenvolunteer.com/ebooks/) - [Webinars](https://goldenvolunteer.com/webinars/) - [Partner Directory](https://goldenvolunteer.com/partners/) - [Success Stories](https://goldenvolunteer.com/success-stories/) - [App for Volunteers](https://goldenvolunteer.com/volunteers-app/) - [Contact Golden](mailto:support@goldenvolunteer.com) Open main navigation Close main navigation - [Blog](https://goldenvolunteer.com/blog/) - [Ebooks](https://goldenvolunteer.com/ebooks/) - [Webinars](https://goldenvolunteer.com/webinars/) - [Partner Directory](https://goldenvolunteer.com/partners/) - [Success Stories](https://goldenvolunteer.com/success-stories/) - [App for Volunteers](https://goldenvolunteer.com/volunteers-app/) - [Contact Golden](mailto:support@goldenvolunteer.com) - English Show submenu for translations - [Support Request](https://support.goldenvolunteer.com/knowledge_base/kb-tickets/new) - [Customer Portal](https://support.goldenvolunteer.com/customer) - [Create a Support Request](https://support.goldenvolunteer.com/knowledge_base/kb-tickets/new) [Create a Support Request](https://support.goldenvolunteer.com/knowledge_base/kb-tickets/new?hsLang=en) How can we help you? - There are no suggestions because the search field is empty. 1. [Golden Help Center](https://support.goldenvolunteer.com/knowledge_base?hsLang=en) 2. [Integrations](https://support.goldenvolunteer.com/knowledge_base/integrations?hsLang=en) 3. [Virtuous](https://support.goldenvolunteer.com/knowledge_base/integrations?hsLang=en#virtuous) October 16, 2026 # How Does My Golden Data Sync with Virtuous By integrating Golden's participant management platform with Virtuous, your organization will be better able to have clean data, recruit new participants, and transform more participants into donors! ### How Do I Integrate Golden with Virtuous? To get started, go to Settings \> Integrations in your Dashboard and select Virtuous. Your Client Strategy Lead is happy to help if you have questions along the way. ### The Basics Before diving into the details of this integration, let's begin with discussing two essential points: - The Golden integration supports two authentication methods: you can use either an API key from Virtuous or your Virtuous username and password. If using username and password, Golden uses an OAuth token to access the Virtuous API. Your credentials are only used to generate the OAuth token and are not stored in Golden. - Participants are synced from Golden to your Virtuous CRM. If the Import New Contacts option is turned on, Golden also receives contact updates from Virtuous. ### How Do I Keep My Data Clean? When Golden sends data directly to your Virtuous CRM, the system will try to find existing contacts that match the participant before creating new ones. This helps ensure clean data and reduce possible duplicates. Email addresses are used to deduplicate participants. Once a contact is found or created, Golden stores the Virtuous ID for the contact with the participant in Golden and then uses that contact in the future. Golden now always sends participants to Virtuous using the import method. 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