You're able to connect Cliniko to your Google/Gmail calendar so that you can easily see appointments at a glance without logging into Cliniko.
Please note that while we maintain to keep this guide as accurate as possible, if Google/Gmail updates their processes for importing other calendars, you may find that you see something different than what's mentioned in this article. We will do our best to keep it up-to-date.
Note that this is a one-way connection from Cliniko to Google—updating something in your Google calendar will not update it in Cliniko.
Setting it up
Select My info under your name:
On the next page, select the Edit your practitioner settings button:
Scroll down to External calendar (not enabled):
Click the Enable external calendar button, and you'll see a really long URL come up. This is the URL you will use when it comes time to connect your Cliniko calendar to an external calendar:
Select the Copy the URL now button.
We only display this URL once, so it's best to link it up with your external calendar immediately, as otherwise you won't see it again and will need to reconfigure your external calendar settings.
Please keep this URL secure, as anyone with this address can subscribe to your calendar. If you ever need to, you can disable and re-enable the external calendar and it will issue you a new URL.
You can also hide patient names, so you won't see names of patients in your Google calendar—only the time/type of appointment.
Connecting to Google calendar
The following steps assume that you have already copied your external calendar URL from your user profile in Cliniko as outlined above. If you haven't done that, please do so now.
Log into Gmail. Once you're logged in, click the symbol made up of nine tiny squares in the upper-right corner of the screen. From there, select the Calendar icon:
Once you're in the calendar, select Other calendars on the left:
Then select From URL:
Paste the URL of your calendar into the box and then press Add calendar:
Do not tick the box to make the calendar publicly available.
Your Cliniko calendar will now show up in your Google calendar:
You're done! 🙌 Google Calendar will now "read" your Cliniko calendar, and import appointments when you add them. If you use the Google Calendar app on your phone, that will also display your Cliniko appointments!
Google has stated that subscribed calendars added to Google Calendar may take up to 12 hours for changes to show. If you don't see your appointments show up immediately, give it some time, and check back a bit later.
For details on connecting Cliniko to other types of external calendars, check out this guide!