Sync your sessions with Google, Apple or Outlook

There are two ways to get your Drry sessions onto a calendar you already live in, and they do different jobs.

• Connect Google. A two way link. Times your Google Calendar shows as busy come off your booking page, and your sessions are copied into a calendar of their own in your Google account. The same connection can also make a fresh Google Meet link for each session.

• The private feed. A link any calendar app can subscribe to, including Apple Calendar and Outlook. It is one way: your sessions show up there, and nothing in those apps reaches Drry.

Both are free on every plan.

What connecting Google does

One sign-in covers three things, and each has its own switch:

• A Google Meet link for every session. Made fresh on your own Google account for each booking and event that uses Meet.

• Busy in Google means not bookable here. Drry sees when you are busy, never what the event is.

• Your sessions on your Google Calendar. Every published event and booking is copied into a calendar named after your community, followed by (Drry).

How busy blocking behaves

• Times your chosen calendars show as busy come off your booking page, and show on your Events calendar as a grey Busy block with no title.

• The booking page refreshes what it knows about your calendar about every three minutes, and asks Google again at the moment someone books, so a meeting you just added is caught.

• Your own (Drry) calendar in Google is left out of the busy check, so a session does not block itself.

• If Google cannot be reached, booking keeps working. Drry leans on the last busy times it saw, and the card says what went wrong.

• Apple and Outlook calendars are not read. Keep your days off up to date for anything that lives there.

Take bookings explains how busy time interacts with your hours and daily limits.

How the (Drry) calendar behaves

• Every published event goes on it, community, private and public alike, and so does every booking. That covers yesterday through a year ahead.

• Drafts, cancelled sessions and deleted ones are removed. A session that has simply passed is left, so your history in Google does not empty itself.

• Drry checks and updates it about once a minute, so a change here can take a moment to appear. A large first copy may need a few passes.

• It invites nobody and emails nobody. Your members get their own invitations from Drry as usual.

• Drry can only change that one calendar, never the rest of your account.

• While copying is working, the new-booking email that goes to the connected Google address arrives without a calendar file, because the session is already on that calendar.

The private feed, for any calendar app

Use this for Apple Calendar, Outlook, or Google if you would rather not connect. It is the same button: Events & Booking, then Calendar sync.

Good to know about the feed:

• It lists published and draft events and bookings, because it is your planning view. Recently cancelled sessions stay on it, marked cancelled, so your calendar app removes them instead of leaving them behind.

• It is one way. Busy times in Apple or Outlook never reach Drry.

• It is yours, one link per person per community. The address is on your community's own address, on your custom domain if you have one.

If something stops updating

• Google stopped letting Drry check your calendar. The card shows a red note and a Reconnect button. Reconnect, and busy blocking picks up where it left off.

• Google stopped letting Drry update your calendar. Same fix: press Reconnect beside the copy switch.

• One of your calendars could not be read. It may have been deleted or unshared. Untick it, or check it in Google.

• Google did not answer. Drry keeps trying every minute for the copy, and uses the busy times it last saw in the meantime.