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# Connect Google Calendar or another calendar to Today

You can show your Google Calendar, or any calendar with a private iCalendar link, on your Today page. Creatures can also use its busy times to protect your bookings, and it never changes your outside calendar.

## Open Calendar connections

At the bottom of Today, choose **Calendar connections and sharing**. The **Calendar connections** page opens.

![Calendar connections with Connect Google or another calendar and Import an iCalendar file](https://cdn-test.creatures.com/2b9/bb5/bfe/35922.png?width=1552)

Choose **Connect Google or another calendar** to open **Connected calendars**.

## Connect Google Calendar

1. Choose **Connect Google Calendar**.
2. Sign in to Google and allow Creatures to see your calendars and events. It can only read them, never change them.
3. You come back to **Connected calendars**, with your Google calendars listed.

## Connect another calendar with a link

Apple, Outlook and most calendar apps can share a private subscription link. It often ends in .ics.

1. Open **Connect an iCalendar subscription link**.
2. Enter a **Name**, such as "Family calendar".
3. Paste the **Private HTTPS subscription link**. If it starts with webcal://, change that part to https://.
4. Check the **Calendar time zone**, then choose **Connect calendar**.

Only connect a calendar you have permission to use. Creatures keeps the link private.

## Choose how each calendar is used

Each new calendar starts off, so nothing shows until you choose. Under **Use this calendar**, pick one:

- **Show in Today** adds its events to your Today page.
- **Protect bookings only** stops guests from booking when you're busy, without showing the events.
- **Show in Today and protect bookings** does both.

To protect bookings, also choose the **Booking account to protect**. You can narrow it with **Limit to an offering** or **Or limit to one person or unit**. Choose **Save calendar settings**.

After the first good refresh, tick **Activate booking protection for this scope** and save again. Creatures checks the calendar every few minutes when it protects bookings, and about every half hour when it only shows in Today. If that calendar also holds a Creatures subscription link, those events are skipped, so nothing shows twice.

## If something looks wrong

- **Refresh delayed** or **Refresh failed** means Creatures couldn't read the calendar lately. It keeps the busy times it already knew.
- **Reconnect this calendar** means Google access has ended. Choose **Reconnect Google Calendar** and sign in again.
- To remove a calendar, open **Disconnect this connection**, tick the box and choose **Disconnect**. Its events leave Today and stop blocking bookings. Bookings you already have stay in place.

## Import a calendar file once

To copy events in one time instead of staying connected, choose **Import an iCalendar file** on the Calendar connections page.

1. Choose your **iCalendar file** (it often ends in .ics). It can be up to 5 MB and 10,000 events.
2. Pick the **Destination calendar**: your own account or an organization.
3. Check the **Time zone for floating times**. Creatures uses it for any times in the file that have no time zone. Then choose **Preview import**.
4. Under **Review your import**, pick what to bring in, then choose **Import selected events**.

![Import calendar with iCalendar file, Destination calendar and Time zone for floating times](https://cdn-test.creatures.com/7bc/504/c8e/6695b.png?width=1552)

Imported events are for planning. They don't block bookings, record care or send reminders.

### Related information

- [Add your Creatures schedule to your phone calendar](https://help.creatures.com/en/article/add-your-creatures-schedule-to-your-phone-calendar-1s0n7dz/)
- [Plan your day and week on Today: to-dos and events](https://help.creatures.com/en/article/plan-your-day-and-week-on-today-1h8yme5/)
- [Taking bookings: schedule, check-in, promos, and the calendar feed](https://help.creatures.com/en/article/taking-bookings-schedule-check-in-promos-and-the-calendar-feed-124mml6/)