iCalendar (iCal) is a standard format for exchanging calendar information between software systems. BookThatApp (BTA) supports iCal, allowing you to export and import bookings with any calendar that supports this standard, such as:
Google Calendar
Microsoft Outlook
Airbnb
Important Notes ⏱️
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iCal is not real-time.
Google checks BookThatApp iCal feeds every 6–24 hours.
BookThatApp checks incoming iCal feeds once per hour.
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For real-time synchronization, BTA can connect directly to Google Calendar via the API.
This allows updates between calendars to happen immediately.
See our Staff Accounts article for more information.
More Details
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Use this feature to send your BTA bookings to an external calendar.
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Use this feature to bring external calendar events into BTA.
Comments
7 comments
Is there a way to import additional details such as customer name/ transaction ID/ notes?
Hi Azmolek
No, sorry not at the moment. You can view full booking information using the built-in Run Sheet in the app.
Thanks
Jack
But how do we access this on the run? We are running out of a truck, and have no computer access, only ipads...
Hi there
You would log into Google the same way you would on a desktop and open up the calendar.
Thanks
Jack
thanks for this tutorial, works great! I am wondering if i can retrieve bookings from when my store opened, which is more then 6 months ago? When i setup this calendar in google it only retrieved today going forward. Any help on this would be greatly appreciated!
I want to have the old bookings because I like the google interface when reviewing the past bookings.
thanks again, Jamie
is there a time lag between following the above and having it 'go live"?
My shopify class does not appear at my google calendar as yet...
Thanks!
Hi Brian
The calendar will show bookings, not events. Google synchs once every 24 hours so if you have existing bookings then they will display on the calendar once it has synched.
Thanks
Zetya Support
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