Google Calendar, both directions.
Connect Riverd to Google once. Personal events on your calendar block client bookings, and every Riverd session writes itself into the Google calendar you pick. Riverd reads only your free or busy time, never your event titles.
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- Personal Google events block clients from booking that time.
- Riverd sessions appear in your Google calendar within a minute.
- Free or busy only. Riverd never reads your event titles.
- Apple Calendar and Outlook users can still subscribe one-way via iCal.
One source of personal time, one source of work
When you connect Google Calendar to Riverd, the personal events on your selected Google calendars become busy time inside Riverd's booking page. A client can't book on top of your kid's pickup, your dentist appointment, or your weekly yoga class. A solo LMT in Austin running four days a week stops manually copying every personal commitment into blackout dates.
Privacy by default, no toggle
Riverd uses Google's free or busy API. We never request access to event titles, descriptions, attendees, or locations. Inside Riverd, your blocked time shows as a generic "Busy" block. If a client books a session that overlaps a personal Google event, you see a banner that says "your Google event," not the title of the event. This default is locked. There is no setting that exposes event titles. See Google's Calendar API documentation for the exact scopes Riverd requests.
Two-way sync, end to end
Confirmed Riverd sessions write into the Google calendar you choose, usually within a minute of being booked. Reschedules and cancellations sync the same way. Riverd registers a webhook with Google so changes from your calendar arrive in near real time. The booking confirmation your client sees never waits on the Google API. We push updates to Google in the background through a queue, so an acupuncturist running back-to-back sessions on a Tuesday never has a client's confirmation slow down because Google was slow.
Apple Calendar or Outlook? Use the one-way iCal subscription.
Two-way sync is Google-only in v1. If you live in Apple Calendar or Outlook, you can still bring your Riverd schedule into your calendar app using the iCal subscription link on your schedule page. It is a one-way feed (Riverd writes, your calendar reads), and the refresh rate depends on your calendar app: Apple Calendar lets you set it as low as 5 minutes, Google Calendar refreshes feeds every 12 to 24 hours. Outlook is closer to Apple. The iCal link uses a private token; if you ever need to revoke access, regenerate it from the schedule page.
Frequently Asked Questions
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