Calendar feed and add-to-calendar

The calendar feed

The feed is a read-only subscription. Point Google Calendar, Outlook or Apple Calendar at it and your Schedopia bookings appear alongside everything else in your schedule, refreshing on their own.

It is off by default. To use it:

1. Go to Settings → Calendar
   and turn the calendar feed on.
2. Copy the feed address
   A long, unguessable URL unique to your site.
3. Subscribe in your calendar app
   Look for “subscribe from URL”, “add by URL” or “from internet” — the wording differs by app — and paste it in.

It is one-way

The feed publishes Schedopia to your calendar. It does not read your calendar back, so an event you create in Google will not block a Schedopia slot. To keep time free, add a day off or adjust working hours in Scheduling.

Refresh timing

Calendar apps decide how often to re-check a subscribed feed, and most are conservative — Google in particular can take several hours. That is the app’s behaviour, not a Schedopia setting. For an up-to-the-second view, use the Schedopia calendar.

Add-to-calendar buttons

Confirmation and reminder emails include Google, Outlook and Apple buttons, so a customer can save the appointment in one click. This makes them measurably more likely to turn up.

These are ordinary links. Nothing is sent anywhere unless the customer clicks one, and the appointment details travel in the link itself.

If you would rather not point customers at Google or Outlook, switch the buttons off under Settings → Calendar. The two features are independent: you can run the feed without the buttons, the buttons without the feed, or neither.