diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index a6b7bc1..c20e862 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -17,3 +17,4 @@ include/
 lib/
 share/
 local/
+venv/
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 2bdc8d7..83c23e2 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -118,9 +118,12 @@ echo "Enter your domain name into the following prompt:" && read DOMAIN
 # configure nginx
 sudo sed -r "s/example.org/$DOMAIN/g" deployment/example.org.conf > /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/$DOMAIN.conf
 
-# create folder for socket
+# create folder for socket & database
 sudo mkdir /var/ticketfrei
 sudo chown www-data:www-data -R /var/ticketfrei
+
+# create folder for logs
+sudo mkdir /var/log/ticketfrei
 sudo chown www-data:www-data -R /var/log/ticketfrei
 
 # start up nginx
@@ -149,3 +152,51 @@ less /var/log/syslog
 # for the nginx web server:
 less /var/log/nginx/example.org_error.log
 ```
+
+### Development Install
+
+If you want to install it locally to develop on it:
+
+```shell
+sudo apt install python3 virtualenv uwsgi uwsgi-plugin-python3 nginx git
+sudo git clone https://github.com/b3yond/ticketfrei
+cd ticketfrei
+git checkout multi-deployment
+```
+
+Install the necessary packages, create and activate virtualenv:
+
+```shell
+virtualenv -p python3 .
+. bin/activate
+```
+
+Install the dependencies:
+
+```shell
+pip install tweepy pytoml Mastodon.py bottle pyjwt pylibscrypt Markdown
+```
+
+Configure the bot:
+
+```shell
+cp config.toml.example config.toml
+vim config.toml
+```
+
+This configuration is only for the admin. Users can log into
+twitter/mastodon/mail and configure their personal bot on the settings page.
+
+```shell
+# create folder for socket & database
+sudo mkdir /var/ticketfrei
+sudo chown $USER:$USER -R /var/ticketfrei
+
+# create folder for logs
+sudo mkdir /var/log/ticketfrei
+sudo chown $USER:$USER -R /var/log/ticketfrei
+
+# start Ticketfrei
+./frontend.py & ./backend.py &
+```
+
diff --git a/db.py b/db.py
index 942cbf5..f96927e 100644
--- a/db.py
+++ b/db.py
@@ -90,6 +90,13 @@ class DB(object):
                 active      INTEGER,
                 FOREIGN KEY(user_id) REFERENCES user(id)
             );
+            CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS telegram_accounts (
+                id          INTEGER NOT NULL PRIMARY KEY AUTOINCREMENT UNIQUE,
+                user_id     INTEGER,
+                apikey      TEXT,
+                active      INTEGER,
+                FOREIGN KEY(user_id) REFERENCES user(id)
+            );
             CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS seen_tweets (
                 id         INTEGER NOT NULL PRIMARY KEY AUTOINCREMENT UNIQUE,
                 user_id            INTEGER,
@@ -173,6 +180,8 @@ u\d\d?
             uid = json['uid']
         self.execute("INSERT INTO email (user_id, email) VALUES(?, ?);",
                      (uid, json['email']))
+        self.execute("""INSERT INTO telegram_accounts (user_id, apikey,
+                        active) VALUES(?, ?, ?);""", (uid, "", 1))
         self.commit()
         user = User(uid)
         user.set_city(city)
diff --git a/frontend.py b/frontend.py
index a3ae423..969bea6 100755
--- a/frontend.py
+++ b/frontend.py
@@ -114,6 +114,14 @@ def update_badwords(user):
     return user.state()
 
 
+@post('/settings/telegram')
+@view('template/settings.tpl')
+def register_telegram(user):
+    apikey = request.forms['apikey']
+    user.set_telegram_key(apikey)
+    return user.state()
+
+
 @get('/api/state')
 def api_enable(user):
     return user.state()
diff --git a/static/css/style.css b/static/css/style.css
index 54590a4..3dc8126 100644
--- a/static/css/style.css
+++ b/static/css/style.css
@@ -41,3 +41,7 @@ input[type=text], input[type=password] {
     display: inline-block;
     border: 1px solid #ccc;
 }
+
+h2 {
+    padding-top: 1em;
+}
diff --git a/template/settings.tpl b/template/settings.tpl
index cd7e524..b177f79 100644
--- a/template/settings.tpl
+++ b/template/settings.tpl
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@
     Log in with Twitter
 </a>
 
-<section style="padding: 1.5em;">
+<section>
     <h2>Log in with Mastodon</h2>
     <p>
         <form action="/login/mastodon" method='post'>
@@ -67,7 +67,22 @@
     </p>
 </section>
 
-<div style="float: left; padding: 1.5em;">
+<div>
+    <h2>Connect with Telegram</h2>
+    <p>
+        If you have a Telegram account, you can register a bot there. Just write to @botfather. You can find detailed
+        instructions <a href="https://botsfortelegram.com/project/the-bot-father/" target="_blank">on Bots for
+        Telegram</a>.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+        The botfather will give you an API key - with the API key, Ticketfrei can use the Telegram bot. Enter it here:
+    </p>
+    <form action="/settings/telegram" method="post">
+        <input type="text" name="apikey" placeholder="Telegram bot API key" id="apikey" required>
+        <input name='confirm' value='Login with Telegram' type='submit'/>
+</div>
+
+<div>
     <h2>Edit your city page</h2>
     <p>
         With your bot, we generated you a page, which you can use for promotion: <a href="/city/{{city}}"
@@ -81,7 +96,7 @@
     </form>
 </div>
 
-<div style="float: left; padding: 1.5em;">
+<div>
     <h2>Edit your trigger patterns</h2>
     <p>
         These words have to be contained in a report.
@@ -95,7 +110,7 @@
     </form>
 </div>
 
-<div style="float:right; padding: 1.5em;">
+<div>
     <h2>Edit the blacklist</h2>
     <p>
         These words are not allowed in reports.
diff --git a/user.py b/user.py
index 83ea724..9823c78 100644
--- a/user.py
+++ b/user.py
@@ -205,6 +205,10 @@ schlitz
                    (self.uid, ))
         return db.cur.fetchall()
 
+    def set_telegram_key(self, apikey):
+        db.execute("UPDATE telegram_accounts SET apikey = ? WHERE user_id = ?;", (apikey, self.uid))
+        db.commit()
+
     def get_mastodon_app_keys(self, instance):
         db.execute("SELECT client_id, client_secret FROM mastodon_instances WHERE instance = ?;", (instance, ))
         try: