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title: "How to Connect a Data Destination"
slug: "how-to-connect-a-data-destination"
description: "Learn how to easily connect your data destination. Connect data warehouses, lake houses and other with Dataddo. Get help with setup and account authorization."
updated: 2025-07-20T18:35:21Z
published: 2025-07-20T18:35:21Z
---

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# How to Connect a Data Destination

In this step of our quickstart tutorial, we will guide you through connecting a ***data destination***, where your data will be loaded to.

If your ***destination*** is a dashboarding app, you can simply skip to the [creating a ***data flow*** step](/docs/how-to-create-a-data-flow), right away!

## Prerequisites

Before getting started, ensure that your account or user has the necessary permissions to `create`, `select`, `update`, `insert`, and `delete` data in the destination. For more information, see our [destination specific how-to guides](/docs/overview-destinations).

If your destination is a data storage platform, make sure to whitelist [Dataddo IPs](/docs/network-acl) to allow incoming connections from Dataddo.

## Select Your Destination

On the Destinations page, click **[Create Destination](https://app.dataddo.com/destinations/new)** and select your ***destination***.

Select a data warehouse to send data to or an application for reverse ETL. You can use the category filters or the search bar to quickly find your desired destination.

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If you select a dashboarding app, you will be immediately redirected to the [creating a ***data flow*** step](/docs/how-to-create-a-data-flow) step.

![Configure data storage](https://cdn.document360.io/084ed225-3f99-4644-a2da-39ca0cd5ef45/Images/Documentation/Destination%201%20-%20Select%20destination.png)

## Select an Authorizer

To create a connection between the selected destination and Dataddo, you will need an ***authorizers***. Either choose an existing ***authorizer*** or click on the ***Add New Account*** button to add a new one.

There are two ways to add a new***authorizer***, which depends on the selected service (this applies for both ***sources*** and ***destinations***):

- For services that require **OAuth** authorization ([Google BigQuery](/docs/google-bigquery), [Google Sheets](/docs/google-sheets-destination), [HubSpot as a Destination](/docs/hubspot-destination)), follow the on-screen prompts. You will be redirected to the service's page to finish this step.
- For other data storages, fill out all the required fields. In general, you should provide: `hostname`, `database name`, `username`, `password`, and `port`.
  - For more information, see our [destination specific how-to guides](/docs/overview-destinations).

![Select destination](https://cdn.document360.io/084ed225-3f99-4644-a2da-39ca0cd5ef45/Images/Documentation/Destination%202%20-%20Configure%20data%20storage.png)

Finally, click **Save**. Congratulations, your ***data destination*** is ready!

## Next Step

          
          

Now, you can [create a ***data flow***](/docs/how-to-create-a-data-flow) to finish the ETL process!

A destination is the endpoint where the data from your sources will be loaded. Destinations include dashboarding tools, data warehouses, and other online services.

Data flows allow you to orchestrate the integration of your data from various sources to your desired destinations. You may add multiple data sources with the same schema to one flow to merge data for a consolidated output.

Authorizers act as credentials for external services (e.g. Facebook or Google). To enable Dataddo to access and retrieve your data, you need to grant access to accounts that possess admin-level permissions or higher within these services.