Connect your Google Calendar to Calendly to check your availability, prevent double bookings, and automatically add scheduled meetings.
Connect your Google Calendar
Step 1 – Go to your calendar settings
From your Calendly home page:
- Select Availability from the sidebar.
- At the top of the page, select the Calendar settings tab.
Step 2 – Connect your Google account
In your Calendar settings, connect your calendar account.
- To connect your first calendar, select Connect next to Google Calendar.
- To add another calendar, select + Connect calendar account, then choose Google Calendar.
- If you signed up using a Google email address, your calendar may already be connected. If it's listed here, you're all set.
Sign in to your Google account when the sign-in window opens. Once you're signed in, you'll return to the Calendar settings page.
Customize how Calendly uses your Google Calendar
After you connect your Google Calendar, you can manage how Calendly checks your availability, adds new meetings, and handles changes.
Calendars to check for conflicts
Choose the calendars you want Calendly to check for availability. You'll be marked as unavailable during any busy events on those calendars.
Calendar to add events to
Choose the calendar where Calendly should add new meetings. Calendly won’t add events to any other calendar.
Sync settings
Control how Calendly and Google Calendar stay in sync with these optional settings:
- Include buffers on this calendar: Calendly adds buffer time before and after your scheduled meetings as separate events in your Google Calendar. When you delete a buffer event in Google Calendar, it'll also be removed from Calendly.
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Automatically sync cancellations and reschedules from this calendar to Calendly:
- When you decline or delete a Calendly meeting in Google Calendar, it'll also be canceled in Calendly.
- When you update the date or time of a Calendly meeting in Google Calendar, it'll also be rescheduled in Calendly.
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If invitees change or delete the event in their own calendars, it won’t affect the meeting.
Turn off Google’s automatic video links
By default, Google Calendar may automatically add a video conferencing link, like Google Meet, to all new events you create.
To update this setting, see Google’s article on turning off automatic video links. If you're using a managed Google Workspace account, your admin may need to make this change by following these instructions.