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Connecting your calendar

42min works best when it can see your calendar. Once a calendar is connected, 42min hides time slots when you're already busy, adds every new booking to your calendar automatically, and — for the right event types — generates a video link. You connect a calendar from Availability → Calendar. Both Google Calendar and Microsoft / Outlook are supported, and you can connect more than one account.

What it does

• Reading busy times — 42min checks the calendars you mark for conflict checks and removes those times from your booking pages, so you don't get double-booked.
• Writing events back — when someone books, 42min creates the event on the calendar you've set as the write target; the invitee gets a calendar invite.
• Video links — for event types whose meeting type is Google Meet or Microsoft Teams, 42min adds a fresh conference link per booking (see Conferencing below).
• Multiple accounts — connect, say, your work and personal accounts (Google, Microsoft, or both), and choose per calendar whether it's used for conflict checks, for writing new events, or just shown for reference.

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How to do it

1. Open Availability → Calendar.
2. Click Add Calendar and choose your provider — Google or Microsoft / Outlook — then sign in and grant 42min access to see and edit your calendar.
3. Back in 42min, pick which of that account's calendars check for conflicts (usually your main one) and which one new bookings are written to.
4. Repeat for any other accounts you want connected.

For the per-provider details, see Google Calendar and Microsoft / Outlook.

Conferencing (Google Meet and Microsoft Teams)

Video links aren't a separate connection — they ride on your calendar connection and are switched on per event type:

• Google Meet — on the event type's General tab, set Meeting Type to Google Meet. Needs a connected Google account. See Google Meet.
• Microsoft Teams — set Meeting Type to Microsoft Teams. Needs a connected Microsoft account. See Microsoft Teams.
• Other meeting types — phone, in person, custom URL, "ask the invitee" — don't generate a video link.

So a Google user picks Google Meet on their event types; a Microsoft user picks Microsoft Teams; the link is created through whichever account is connected.

Common issues

• Connected, but slots are still wrong. The account is connected, but the calendar holding your events isn't ticked for conflict checks — fix that on the Calendar tab. (Connecting an account is not the same as choosing which of its calendars to check.)
• Bookings aren't landing on my calendar. Pick a calendar as the write target — without one, 42min has nowhere to create the event.
• No Google Meet / Teams link in the confirmation. The event type's meeting type must be Google Meet (or Microsoft Teams) and you must have a connected Google (or Microsoft) account — both are required, and they must match.
• Personal vs work account. Connect the account whose calendar actually holds your meetings — a personal account with an empty calendar won't catch any conflicts. For Microsoft, this can also mean a personal (outlook.com) account vs an organization (work/school) account; connect the one you actually use.
• Access revoked. If you remove 42min from your Google or Microsoft security settings, the connection goes stale and conflict checking stops — reconnect from Availability → Calendar.
• Wrong provider's conferencing. If you're on Microsoft, don't set event types to Google Meet (and vice versa) — use the option that matches your connected account, or bookings will come out with no working video link.