HubSpot Ideas

Shaunyim

Connect multiple calendars to 1 HubSpot account

It would be great to see the ability to connect more than 1 Cadlender per HubSpot account. 

 

For example 1 Google Calender and 1 Outlook Calender to a single HubSpot user.

 

- Posted on behlaf of customer 

58 Replies
LMartin7
Member | Elite Partner

we need this as well, thank in advance for the update !

Maciej
Member

Yes, I'm also after this idea! It is a must in today's world, where many people, as for me, use multiple emails and calendars.

jessicad
Member

Definitely needed! What would also be awesome is the ability when setting up Meeting Scheduling links that you could select which of your connected calendars that meeting would schedule events on vs. looking at the collective connected accounts as a whole. 

polle
Contributor

I need this! Right now we work out of Google Calendar and have this connected to HubSpot, however, most of our customers use MS Teams and not Google Meet. Therefore, whenever we have meetings with customers or leads, invites are sent out through Teams and then copied to our Google Calendar using CalendarBridge. This results in those meetings not being logged in contact and company records as the copy on the Google calendar has no invitees.

 

This issue would be solved by allowing to push events from 2 or more calendars for logging, or having a CalendarBridge integration.

ESchneider3
Member

I have 2 calendars that I need to have attached to Hubspot. Right now, I am paying for Calendly, which is a really easy platform. But, I don't like having the extra expense when I am already paying for Hubspot. 

BarryBurkett
Member

A solution

Long story short: in order to have my calendars register in Outlook I am needing to adjust "Calendar Interop Management" in the Google Admin panel.

About my use:

  • I am using eMetings coming from Calendly. 
  • I use multiple calendars:
    • OWA - aka Outlook - business, the account used in Calendar Sync
    • GCal1 - Google Calendar - personal, used for organizing non-work-life.
      • identified with an *@gmail.com
      • a lot of people familiar with tool
      • allows easy ways to share and ownership of personal calendars
    • GCal2 - Google Calendar - business, used for my other, non-MS, business.
      • identified with a personalized domain, i.e. *@sikanai.com.
      • limited groups of people use this option (many SBOs and GApps familiar people)
      • limits the ability to share business calendars because of security and sensitivity issues.

Workthrough

The personal calendar (GCal1) is able to be recognized by OWA using the simple; Add Personal Calendars prompt in the Outlook App, as referenced by DimaG, January 13, 2021. The Add Personal Calendars prompt is only able to see one calendar and therefore was limited in scheduling around GCal2, due to security protocols.

Understanding this limitation, I:

    1. set permisssions to share > "make changes and manage sharing" from GCal1 to GCal 2, then
      • GCal share settings window with three steps highlighted. Step 1: select, "Settings for my calendar." Step 2: select, "Share with specific people." Step 3: select the "Add people" button, add wanted email address, and set permissions to, "Make changes and manage sharing."GCal share settings window with three steps highlighted. Step 1: select, "Settings for my calendar." Step 2: select, "Share with specific people." Step 3: select the "Add people" button, add wanted email address, and set permissions to, "Make changes and manage sharing."
      1. used the "Calendar Interop Management" to tie GCal2 with Outlook.
        • Screenshot of Google Administrator, Calendar interop management screen. Select checkbox to "Enable Interopability for Calendar". Then add your calendar type, the screen shows "Exchange Web Services (EWS)."Screenshot of Google Administrator, Calendar interop management screen. Select checkbox to "Enable Interopability for Calendar". Then add your calendar type, the screen shows "Exchange Web Services (EWS)."

 

Result

Looking at my Meetings portal I am not seeing scheduled availability in my "taken" or "scheduled" time.

JWheeler3
Participant

Hubspot meeting is horrid. There are so many missing features it's ridiculous. Even the free version of Calendly has more features. 

we need multiple calendar synchronization  !!! 

come on hubspot 

bdesilva
Contributor

I need this. My calendar is used for tasks and appts so there are seldom slots for someone to book and I have my main booking tool going there. But I need to have another for a particular type of meeting so I can set the times separately for those.

Yupvoted
HubSpot Employee

Posting on behalf of customer, it would be great if we can simulatenously connect both Gmail and Outlook calendars into HubSpot.

JCuizon
Member

Absolutely must have! This will avoid having to manually reconcile multiple calendars given the nature of remote workforce, a lot of freelancers supporting businesses have multiple clients and it make sense that we'd be able to sync two calendars and hubspot picks up our avaiability from two or more calendars

CSchrobilgen
Member

Yes! At the very least the ability to reference a second calendar for availabilities. Thanks!

KasieMarie
Participant

We could also use this. We have a few folks on our small team that have multiple calendars, and it would be great to pull them all in!

RLove
Member | Elite Partner

I have found (after a few hours of searching, Googling and trial and error) a solution.

In principle, you need to make all of your calendars available within the one primary calendar which is your account linked to Hubspot.

The details below refer only to sharing numerous calendars from Outlook, but the same theory should apply for GCal and other calendars.

 

  • Go to Outlook online for the calendar that you want to share.
  • Go to settings
  • Click in VIEW ALL OUTLOOK SETTINGS
  • Go to CALENDAR
  • Go to SHARED CALENDARS
  • Under PUBLISH A CALENDAR choose which calendar you want to share.
  • Copy the ICS link.

 

Then go to Outlook on line for the calendar that is the main domain linked to your Hubspot account.

  • Go to Calendar
  • Select ADD CALENDAR on left hand side
  • Select SUBSCRIBE FROM WEB
  • Copy Link as directed
  • Add the name for the calendar
  • Select where to ADD CALENDAR (suggest My Calendars)
  • Repeat for as many calendars as you want to add.

This means all calendars are now hosted under the master calendar which is available in Hubspot

 

Go to Hubspot

  • Go to SETTINGS>>GENERAL>>CALENDAR
  • Under SELECTED CALENDARS all options should now show there.
Dalton
Participant

Commenting to push this up further, this is needed serverely for the meetings tool. We have quite a few consultants working for us where we are not their only client and having the ability to have multiple calendars would be very useful. 

KarryCBB
Contributor

Yes please!  Outlook and Google integration would be idea for us freelancers!

ASazama
Member

This thread started in Oct, 2020. I can't believe that it has not been seriously considered by HubSpot yet. Gone is the day of having one calendar, the platform already connects one calendar and reads the schedule, how difficult would it be to be able to add multiple calendars? Please HubSpot, listen to your users, get this built already!

CLindberg
Member

Joining everyone else. We left Calendly to come to Hubspot because we were assured functionality was there. Guess not. There must be some strategic operational reason that hasn't been executed yet, but your customers obviously want this, self included.

SSummers
Member

Same as the majority of comments - we have multiple email accounts (different domains) and we need all of them to be reflected, not only for the meeting tool, but also on the schedule for the day.

This is an essential function that should be a simple addition for HubSpot. It's a bit frustrating that this idea was presented over 2 years ago and still no movement. 

Honestly, I was under the impression that this was a possibility when we signed up for HubSpot and had I known this function was unavailable, it may have impacted my decision to move forward with the package that we purchased.

Please....can we have this function added?

ELindner
Member

We're just adopting HubSpot, and pretty thrilled with the capabilities and functionalities added monthly BUT holy **bleep** I can't believe in 2023 I can't have MEETINGS bump up against BOTH my OUTLOOK and GMAIL. Back to Calendly, which seems rediculous. HubSpot dev, would love to better understand WHY this functionality isn't available and IF it's on your backlog for release in the near term?

PatienceSeow
HubSpot Employee

Upvoting for my customer!