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Subscription Calendars
What is a subscription calendar?
A subscription calendar is a live calendar feed you create in AddEvent that your audience subscribes to once. Every event you add or update automatically appears in subscribers' personal calendar apps - Google Calendar, Apple Calendar,...
Subscription Calendars
How does subscription calendar syncing work?
When a user subscribes to your AddEvent calendar, their calendar app creates a live connection to your AddEvent calendar feed using a standard iCal URL. The app periodically polls that URL for updates and syncs any changes it finds. What...
Subscription Calendars
Can I collect information from calendar subscribers?
Yes. You can add a subscriber form to your calendar landing page to collect details like name, email, or custom fields before a user subscribes. Subscriber data is exportable from your dashboard.
Subscription Calendars
Can I delete or block a specific subscriber?
Yes. From your calendar's subscriber list in the AddEvent dashboard, you can delete a subscriber to remove them, or block them to prevent them from re-subscribing.
Subscription Calendars
Subscription calendar vs. embeddable calendar: what's the difference?
A subscription calendar lives inside your users' calendar app and stays in sync as you update events. An embeddable calendar lives on your website and is visible to any visitor - no subscription required. The core difference | |...
Subscription Calendars
Can I import an existing Google or Outlook calendar into AddEvent?
Yes. You can import a Google Calendar or Outlook calendar into AddEvent by connecting it via the Calendars section of your dashboard. Once imported, events from that calendar appear in AddEvent and can be shared or embedded.
Subscription Calendars
Can I use a subscription calendar for a sports team or league schedule?
Yes - it's one of the most popular use cases. Create a subscription calendar in AddEvent, add all your fixtures, and share a Follow Calendar button with fans and members. When you update the schedule, subscribers' calendars update automatically.
Subscription Calendars
What are the limitations of AddEvent subscription calendars?
Subscription calendars are powerful but have real limitations rooted in how the iCal standard and calendar apps work - worth understanding before you build a strategy around them. Sync delay - the biggest practical limitation Google...
In this category
- What is a subscription calendar?
- How does subscription calendar syncing work?
- Can I collect information from calendar subscribers?
- Can I delete or block a specific subscriber?
- Subscription calendar vs. embeddable calendar: what's the difference?
- Can I import an existing Google or Outlook calendar into AddEvent?
- Can I use a subscription calendar for a sports team or league schedule?