Calendar integration
Google Calendar, synced with your venue schedule
A booking confirmed in Joinways appears in Google Calendar. The schedule is managed in Joinways, and the calendar your team checks every morning reflects it automatically.
Pushed automatically
An event confirmed in Joinways appears in Google Calendar with its date and times. No export, no re-typing.
No double entry
Confirm a booking once in Joinways. Google Calendar shows it without anyone copying it over.
Google OAuth
Connected in two minutes with your Google account. No password stored, revocable at any time.
What the Google Calendar integration does
Your calendar stays your calendar. Joinways keeps it aligned with the reality of your bookings.
Confirmed bookings pushed
An event confirmed in Joinways appears in Google Calendar with its date and time. The team sees it where they already look.
Changes follow
A date moved in Joinways is updated in Google Calendar. The calendar never shows an out-of-date version of the schedule.
Availability you can trust
When a client asks for a date, the calendar reflects what is actually booked, without cross-checking two tools.
At a glance
- Category
- Calendar
- Availability
- Available
- Setup time
- A few minutes, including calendars for each venue
- Who can connect
- A workspace owner or admin, once for the workspace
- What flows where
- One way: Joinways to Google Calendar
- Updates
- On each change in Joinways, with automatic retries
- Needed on the tool's side
- A Google account (Gmail or Google Workspace) with editable calendars
- Built by
- Joinways (native integration)
Before you start
- A Google account (Gmail or Google Workspace) whose calendars you can edit.
- An owner or admin role in your Joinways workspace.
- Your venues set up in Joinways: calendars and statuses are chosen venue by venue.
What syncs with Google Calendar
- Confirmed bookings, with their date and times
- Date and time changes made in Joinways, reflected in the calendar
- The calendars of your choice, venue by venue
- The statuses of your choice: confirmed by default, holds too if you want
- Your availability, reflected without cross-checking two tools
Security and access
- Joinways asks Google for calendar access (read and write) to list your calendars and write events to the ones you pick.
- Only events created by Joinways are updated or removed. The rest of your calendar is left as is.
- Clients are not added as guests, so no invitation is sent.
- Access tokens are stored encrypted. Joinways never sees your Google password.
- Disconnecting deletes the stored tokens. Events already pushed stay in your calendar.
What it does not do
- Events you add directly in Google Calendar are not read back and block nothing in Joinways.
- Events without a venue are not pushed.
- When you turn the sync on, upcoming events are pushed (up to 200 per venue). Past events are not.
- The workspace pushes through one connected Google account, not one per member.
How to connect Google Calendar to Joinways
The connection uses Google OAuth, the same secure flow as the Gmail integration.
- 1
Open your integration settings
In Joinways, go to Settings, then Integrations, and choose Google Calendar.
- 2
Authorize with Google
Sign in with the Google account that owns the calendar. Joinways stores no password.
- 3
Choose the calendar and statuses
In each venue's synchronization settings, pick the calendars that receive its events and the statuses to push: confirmed events by default, holds if you want them.
- 4
Confirm bookings once
From now on, events confirmed in Joinways appear in Google Calendar on their own.
Where it helps day to day
The tour that lands during a setup
Before offering a visit slot, your Google calendar already shows the setup planned the day before the wedding. You offer another day, without opening Joinways.
The date that moves
A corporate retreat slides from March to May. You change the date once in Joinways, and the team's calendar matches your proposals and bookings.
The room closed for works
You close the terrace for two weeks of works in Joinways. With closures sync turned on, the closure shows as busy in the team's Google calendar, next to the bookings.
Why sync your venue schedule with Google Calendar?
Most venues live in two calendars: the one in their booking tool and the one the team actually opens, in Google. Every gap between the two costs something: a double booking, a room prepared on the wrong day, a date promised twice.
The integration connects in two minutes through Google OAuth. After that, each event you confirm in Joinways is added to the calendar, and each date you move there is updated.
And without the sync?
The team keeps opening Google Calendar, but bookings are confirmed elsewhere. Each one has to be copied over by hand, and copied again when the date moves.
Calendar errors usually only show up on event day, when they are hardest to fix.
