squarespace events google calendar

squarespace events google calendar

Squarespace has a calendar option built in, which you can use to add a calendar option to your website. It's pretty nice, but has the big downfall that if you already maintain a Google calendar with all your events in, then you now need to manage two calendars.

Every time you, or one of your staff members adds an event to your Google calendar, you now need to add it to your website calendar too. Not particularly ideal.

A quick, but unsophisticated, way of solving this problem is to use Google's Calendar embed. It allows you to embed your Google calendar directly into your website. To do this, head to your Google Calendar page (https://calendar.google.com) and select the three dots next to the calendar that you wish to embed:

 

 

 

Then click settings and sharing. Scroll down until you come to the Integrate Calendar section and look for the embed code option:

You can copy and paste this embed code onto your Squarespace website and it will give you a calendar on your website that looks like this:

 

Yep - you're right, I don't particularly like it either. You've spent a long time designing your website, choosing the colours, logos, fonts, and it's pretty likely that you don't want to put this on your website.

The other issue with the Google Calendar embed is that it doesn't particularly have any useful features for your customers. They can't filter through events, they can't search, they can't subscribe to your calendar, and it's generally just not very inviting to use.

So, let's have a look at what tools we can use to make this better...

We made Event Calendar App to solve this exact problem for you.

Using Event Calendar App you can design an Event Calendar for your website that looks beautiful. You can also do a bunch of other stuff too such as use it to sell tickets and collect RSVPs. Importantly, Event Calendar App will sync with your Google Calendar, and let you add your Google events onto your website. Whenever you update your Google calendar it will update on your website too. Ideal.