Importing Google Calendar Appointments

Import existing Google Calendar events into Zanda by linking calendars, exporting Google Calendar events, and importing them into the Zanda-linked calendar.

If you have existing appointments in a Google Calendar it is possible to have these sync into your Zanda account. Please follow the steps outlined below.

Importing existing Google Calendar events into Zanda

  1. The first step will create a new calendar in your Google Calendar that is linked to your Zanda calendar. This is done by going to Settings > Team > Practitioners, selecting the calendar and clicking Google Sync > Link to Google Account. (For more information on connecting Zanda to Google Calendar refer to this article).
    Once you have done this, a new calendar will be created in your Google account which will be named something like '(calendar name) Zanda'.

     

  2. Access your existing Google Calendar and export the events as per the steps here.
  3. Using the iCal file from the export, import this into the calendar that is linked to your calendar in Zanda as per the steps outlined here.
  4. You will then be able to sync these appointments back into Zanda by going to Settings > Team > Practitioner Profile > Google Sync > 'Get Changes from Google Calendar'. This will retrieve these appointments from Google Cal and sync them into your diary.

Important

Before you continue any further with connecting your Zanda account to Google Calendar  you must log out of the account. You can click here to log out.

Please note that as Google Calendar does not store a client database, there is no way to identify which client attended the appointment aside from the text in the appointment title. This means that the appointments are synced into Zanda as personal appointments where there is no direct link to a client in the system. You will see the name of the event as the appointment title in the calendar.