# Prerequisites for connecting Amazon Q Business to Quip
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Before you begin, make sure that you have completed the following prerequisites.

**In Quip, make sure you have:**
+ A Quip account with administrative permissions.
+ Created Quip authentication credentials that include a personal access token. See [Quip documentation on authentication](https://quip.com/dev/admin/documentation/current#section/Authentication) for more information.
+ Copied your Quip site domain. For example, {{https://quip-company.quipdomain.com/browse}} where {{quipdomain}} is the domain.

**In your AWS account, make sure you have:**
+ Created a Amazon Q Business application.
+ Created a [Amazon Q Business retriever and added an index](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/amazonq/latest/qbusiness-ug/select-retriever.html).
+ Created an [IAM role](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/amazonq/latest/qbusiness-ug/iam-roles.html#iam-roles-ds) for your data source and, if using the Amazon Q API, noted the ARN of the IAM role.
+ Stored your Quip authentication credentials in an AWS Secrets Manager secret and, if using the Amazon Q API, noted the ARN of the secret.
**Note**  
If you’re a console user, you can create the IAM role and Secrets Manager secret as part of configuring your Amazon Q application on the console.

For a list of things to consider while configuring your data source, see [ Data source connector configuration best practices](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/amazonq/latest/qbusiness-ug/connector-best-practices.html).