Google Calendar

Google Calendar API

This page is about the menu  (SETTINGS) CHANNEL MANAGER > GOOGLE CALENDAR APU and explains how to connect to Googles Calendar API

Contents

1 Capabilities

• Beds24.com can export bookings to Google Calendar as events.
• Beds24.com can import events from Google Calendar as bookings.

3 Setup

3.1 Authenticating

• Click the "Get an Auth Code for your calendar here" link.
• Sign in to your Google account if prompted.
• Click "Allow" on the "Calendar API wants to access your Google Account" screen.
• Copy the Auth Code and paste it into the field on the setup page.
• Click the "Process code" button. If successful, you will see "Success, calendar connected".

3.2 Mapping

• Map your rooms to calendars by click "get codes".
• Set the start and end times for exported bookings.
• The "Calendar Summary" field will set the titles of events in Google Calendar.
• The "Ignore Containing" field is used to skip certain events when importing. E.g. if "ignore this" is present in the Ignore Containing field, any event that has "ignore this" in the summary, description or location will not be imported.