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Adding a Google Calendar


You can sync your Google Calendar with your church calendar in ChurchTrac. This will display a Read-Only view of your Google Calendar events in ChurchTrac.

Your Google Calendar cannot be displayed as part of your public ChurchTrac calendar. Your Google events are only displayed within the ChurchTrac application.

  • Make Your Google Calendar Public
  • Google Calendar in ChurchTrac

Make Your Google Calendar Public

In order for your Google Calendar to be displayed in ChuchTrac, you first have to make it public!

Step 1

Log into your Google calendar account. Then select the "Options" for the calendar that you would like to edit. From there, select "Settings and Sharing".

Adding a Google Calendar to your church calendar

Step 2

Adding a Google Calendar to your church calendar

Once you are in the Settings section, scroll down to Access Permissions and select the checkbox to make it public.

Adding a Google Calendar to your church calendar

Step 3

Before you can go back to set up your public calendar in ChurchTrac, you will need to locate your Google Calendar's ID. Scroll down further on the Settings section to Integrate Calendar as shown in the picture below, and locate your Calendar ID.

Adding a Google Calendar to your church calendar
Make sure you copy your Google Calendar ID, as you will need to place that information into a field in ChurchTrac.

Creating a Google Calendar in ChurchTrac

Now that your Google Calendar is public, you will want to create a calendar within ChurchTrac, linking the two together.

Step 1

First you would select the "Add Calendar" button on the Edit Calendars screen.

How to create Church Calendars in ChurchTrac

Then, select "Google Calendar" as the Calendar type.

Adding a Google Calendar

Step 2

Next, paste or type in your Google Calendar ID that you copied from the Integrate Calendar of the Settings section in Google Calendar.

When viewing the Google Calendar events on the ChurchTrac Calendar screen, you will notice they are underlined and clickable. Clicking on these events will take you to the Google interface to update the details.
Adding a Google Calendar

Once the Google Calendar is linked to your ChurchTrac calendar, anytime you create/edit/update an event on the Google side, it will automatically update in ChurchTrac.

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