Connect your calendar
Keep Google Calendar or Outlook in step with your bookings, and get meeting links.
Two-way calendars and meeting links work on all plans. Each person connects their own calendar.
Connect
Go to My settings under the person icon at the top, and find My calendar. Click Connect Google Calendar or Connect Outlook, then sign in and allow access. If a button says "being set up", ask Ellibo support.
My calendar shows only for someone who takes bookings and signs in. A staff member without a sign-in can't connect a calendar, so give them one first. See Staff and hours.
What the three switches do
- Put my bookings in this calendar - each confirmed booking appears as an event, and comes off if it's cancelled.
- Busy times in this calendar block my slots - your busy events stop customers booking those times.
- Moving an event in this calendar moves the booking - changes come back from your calendar. Bookings checks for them every few minutes, for the next 45 days.
When you change the event in your calendar
- You move it, and the new time is free - the booking moves and the customer is told.
- You move it, and the time isn't free - the booking stays where it was and you are told.
- You delete it - the booking stays and you are told. Cancel it in Bookings if you meant to.
With several hosts, only the main host's calendar moves the booking.
If it says "Sign in again"
Your calendar stopped letting us in, for example after a password change. Until you click Sign in again, your bookings don't reach it and your busy times don't block slots. An Admin sees the same warning on Staff.
Disconnect
Click Disconnect. Your bookings stay in Bookings.
Any other calendar
Under Or subscribe from any calendar, copy the address into any calendar that can subscribe. This is one way: your bookings show there, and nothing comes back. Click Make a new address if the address gets out. The old one stops working.
Meeting links
For an appointment type set to Online, choose Meeting link:
| Choice | How it works |
|---|---|
| Google Meet, made for each booking | A link is made when the host has Google Calendar connected |
| Microsoft Teams, made for each booking | A link is made when the host has Outlook connected |
| A link you paste (Zoom or other) | You paste your own room link. Empty means each person's own link |
For Zoom, there is no automatic link. Paste your own room link on the appointment type, or let each person save theirs under My meeting room in My settings.
When the host's calendar is connected, the Meet or Teams link is in the customer's first confirmation. It also shows on the booking and goes out with the reminders.
Meet and Teams links also need Put my bookings in this calendar turned on. If the host's calendar isn't connected, no link is made. The booking still stands, and you can add a link yourself with Edit details on the booking.