Works with Google Calendar
A calendar invitation for every registrant, kept up to date.
Each registrant is emailed a calendar invitation with the join link, which Google Calendar, Outlook and Apple Calendar show as an invite. When you change the time, the same entry updates in place; when the event or their place is cancelled, it's taken off. Your events are also a calendar feed anyone can subscribe to, and with Google connected you can make the Google Meet for an event from here.
Try it: write your event in a sentence
What you get
On top of Google Calendar
An invitation, not just a file
The confirmation carries a calendar invitation addressed to the registrant, with reminders in it, so it lands in their calendar the way a colleague's invite does.
Changes follow
Move the event and an update replaces the entry; cancel it and a cancellation removes it. No second entry at the old time.
Add-to-calendar buttons
Google, Outlook and Office 365 links on the registrant's page and in emails, and a .ics file of their own.
Feeds to subscribe to
Your public page and each series have a calendar feed, so followers see every new session in their calendar.
Google Meet from here
With Google connected, make the event's Meet on your own calendar in one step. Its link goes only to registrants.
How it works
- 1
Nothing to set up for invitations
Every event with a date sends them with the confirmation. The call's link is in the invitation, and only registrants get it.
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Share your feed
Your page's calendar address is on your public page; in Google Calendar, add it under Other calendars → From URL.
- 3
Connect Google, for Meet
Settings → Connections → Google: sign in with your own Google account. Then make the Meet from the event.
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Add registrants as guests, if you choose
Per event: Google then emails each one an invitation from your own calendar. It's off unless you turn it on.
Good to know
- Subscribing is on a computer
- Google Calendar adds a calendar by URL in a web browser, not in its phone apps.
- Guests are up to 500
- Adding registrants as guests on your Google event stops at 500. Past that, the invitations we send do the job.
- Feeds are public events only
- A feed lists your public events, never a registrant's personal join link.
Questions
Why an invitation instead of an .ics attachment?
An invitation is addressed to the person, so calendars put it in as an invite and update it in place when it changes. A plain file makes a new entry each time.
Does Programmable Talk read my Google Calendar?
No. With Google connected, it makes the Meet event on your calendar and, if you turn it on, adds registrants as guests. It doesn't read your other events.
Does it work with Outlook?
Yes. The invitation is the standard calendar format, and there are Outlook and Office 365 add-to-calendar links too.