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Google Calendar sync for auto repair shop appointments

Updated . In the Core plan and above.

Get your Gearboxly schedule onto your phone and into Google Calendar. It is optional, and everything works without connecting anything.

What it does

There are two ways to do it, and you can use both. A private calendar link works with Google Calendar, Apple Calendar and Outlook. Google Calendar sync sends each appointment to your Google account, usually within about a minute of it being booked, moved or cancelled.

Gearboxly creates its own separate calendar called Gearboxly appointments and only works inside it. It cannot see your other calendars, and it only changes events it created itself. Both ways go one way, from Gearboxly to your calendar: moving or deleting an event in Google never changes anything in Gearboxly.

Estimates never appear. Prices, totals and customers' email or street addresses are never sent. A minimal privacy setting, the recommended one, sends the customer's first name, the vehicle and the service.

How it works

  1. 1

    Open Settings, then Calendar

    Choose Connect Google Calendar and sign in with the Google account whose calendar you want to use. The owner or a service writer can do this. Mechanics cannot.

  2. 2

    Approve one permission

    Google asks to make a calendar called Gearboxly appointments and manage events on it.

  3. 3

    It keeps itself up to date

    Gearboxly sends the next 90 days of appointments. After that it keeps Google up to date on its own.

Questions shops ask

How fast do appointments show up in Google?

With Google Calendar sync, usually within about a minute of being booked, moved or cancelled. The private calendar link is slower: Google only checks subscribed calendars every several hours.

Does it change my own Google events?

No. Gearboxly creates its own calendar, called Gearboxly appointments, and only changes events it created.

What never gets sent?

Estimates, prices, totals, and customers' email or street addresses are never sent.

Who can connect it?

The owner or a service writer connects it once with Google. Mechanics cannot.

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