Connect Google Calendar
Connecting Google Calendar does two jobs. Every paid booking lands on your calendar with no manual entry, and the days you are already busy disappear from your booking page. A connected calendar is one of the onboarding steps, and your booking page will not go live until it is done. If a calendar you connected later stops working, because you disconnected it or Google ended the access, your page stays live but takes requests only until you reconnect, and BookNox emails you once when Google ends the access.
Connecting your calendar
Choose Connect Calendar in the second onboarding step and approve BookNox once on Google's consent screen. BookNox asks Google for permission to manage events, so it can add your bookings, and to read free and busy times, so it can keep your open dates accurate, plus your Google account's email address. When you return, the step shows as done.
The connection is stored as an encrypted token. BookNox has no access to your email, and the button in the onboarding step offers Reconnect at any time if you ever need to approve again.
Sources, read October 22, 2026: Google: the Calendar permissions to view your availability and to view and edit events.
What does BookNox read from my calendar?
BookNox reads only free and busy times from your primary calendar, never event titles, descriptions, or guests. Any busy time on a day blocks that whole day on your booking page. BookNox's own weekly hold events are created as Free on purpose, so they never block anything twice.
A Google outage never closes your page. If the free and busy check fails, BookNox does not block every date; the page falls back to your BookNox availability rules and existing bookings until Google answers again.
Sources, read October 22, 2026: Google: a free and busy query returns only busy time ranges; Google: an event marked transparent does not block time.
When a client books
As soon as a client's deposit payment succeeds, BookNox adds an all day event to your primary calendar on the service date. The event title combines the proposal title and your business name, the description notes the total and that the deposit was received, and the client is listed as a guest. BookNox tells Google not to send an invitation of its own and sends the client a calendar file itself.
The invite is a standard calendar file (ICS, RFC 5545) attached to the client's deposit receipt email, which imports into Google Calendar, Outlook, or Apple Calendar. A proposal without a service date books no date, so it creates no calendar event and no invite.
Sources, read October 22, 2026: Google: an event with a date and no time is an all day event; Google: an app can create an event and send guests no notification; RFC 5545: the iCalendar standard for exchanging events.
Which calendar BookNox uses
BookNox writes to and reads from your primary Google Calendar, the main calendar of the Google account you approved. Other calendars on the same account, such as shared or secondary calendars, are not checked for busy times and do not receive bookings, so keep the appointments that should block your booking page on the primary calendar.
Requests and proposals
Only paid bookings appear on your calendar. A request or an unsigned proposal never touches Google, although a request does count toward the bookings per day limit on your page, so a full day stays closed while you decide.
Proposals carry a service date rather than a start time, which is why each booking becomes an all day event instead of an invented time slot. Add the start time to the event in Google if you want it on your calendar.
Your calendar stays private
Clients never see your calendar. The booking page shows only which dates are open or blocked, never the events behind a blocked day, and the free and busy answer BookNox gets from Google carries no event details to show in the first place.
Checking that a booking synced
The Bookings page has a Calendar column for every booking. It shows on calendar once the event exists in Google and not synced when it does not, and underneath it shows whether the client's invite file was sent. A booking that shows not synced still stands: the payment, the contract, and the receipts do not depend on Google.
Weekly holds on your calendar
Recurring weekly holds from your availability settings also appear on your calendar, each as a weekly all day event through its end date. Hold events are marked Free on purpose: they are a visual mirror, and your booking page's availability comes from your BookNox settings. Removing a hold in BookNox removes its event too.
How do I disconnect Google Calendar?
Open Settings, go to the Google Calendar section, and choose Disconnect Google Calendar, then Yes, disconnect. BookNox removes the weekly hold events it placed on your calendar, ends its access at Google, and deletes its stored keys. Bookings already on your calendar stay put.
While the calendar is disconnected, new bookings stop reaching it and busy days stop being read, so your booking page takes requests only: clients send a request, and you confirm the date and send the proposal from Requests. Reconnect from the same section to go back to automatic proposals. If you remove BookNox from the linked apps page of your Google Account instead, the page switches to requests only the next time BookNox reads your calendar, and you get one email about it.
Sources, read October 22, 2026: Google Account Help: review or remove a linked app's access.
Can I connect Outlook or Apple Calendar?
BookNox connects to Google Calendar only. If you keep several Google accounts, approve the one whose primary calendar holds your work schedule. The invite file BookNox sends your clients is a standard format, so clients themselves can use Google Calendar, Outlook, or Apple Calendar.
Why publishing needs a calendar
A booking page that cannot see your calendar would offer days you have already promised to someone else. Requiring the connection before publishing means every date a client can pick has been checked against your real schedule, and every booking you take shows up where you already plan your week, with no copying between tools.