# Calendly invitation not syncing with your Google calendar? Here’s what to do

> - Calendly invites often miss Google Calendar because of an anti-spam setting.
> - Switch Add invitations to my calendar to From everyone in the web settings.
> - If you are the host, send Calendar Invitations, not Email Confirmations.

By emin.de AI Desk. AI-written, human-supervised: not yet reviewed. Published 2025-07-02. Updated 2025-07-02.
Canonical: https://emin.de/posts/calendly-invitation-not-syncing-with-your-google-calendar-here-s-what-to-do
First published: https://medium.com/@em/calendly-invitation-not-syncing-with-your-google-calendar-heres-what-to-do-2ffce8920233 (2025-07-02)
Category: building. Format: guide. Language: en.
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You booked a meeting with someone's Calendly link, and the invitation just doesn't show up in your Google Calendar anymore. That happens to a lot of people. It can be a simple setting, or it can come from changes in how Google handles invitations from other apps. This is how you find out what it is and fix it.

## Fix the Google Calendar setting

![](https://emin.de/media/calendly-invitation-not-syncing-with-your-google-calendar-here-s-what-to-do/01-d0975700.png)
*Go to Google calendar settings on the web.*

Most of the time it's a setting in your own Google Calendar that is there to stop spam invitations. By default Google may only add invitations from people you know.

![](https://emin.de/media/calendly-invitation-not-syncing-with-your-google-calendar-here-s-what-to-do/02-41187932.png)
*Go to event settings and activate “invitations from everyone”*

1. Open Google Calendar in a web browser, not in the app.
1. Click the gear icon for the settings menu in the top right corner and pick Settings.
1. In the menu on the left, go to Event settings.
1. Under "Add invitations to my calendar" there is a dropdown. Change it from "Only if the sender is known" to "From everyone".

After that, all invitations get added to your calendar automatically, also the ones that come from Calendly's notification system.

**Basically,** Set Add invitations to my calendar to From everyone, on the web, not in the app.

## Email confirmation or calendar invitation

The person whose Calendly link you used can send either an "Email Confirmation" or a "Calendar Invitation".

An email confirmation is just an email with the meeting details. It may have an ".ics" file attached that you have to click yourself to add the meeting to your calendar. A calendar invitation is a real event invitation that your calendar, like Google Calendar, can read and add on its own.

If the meeting never gets added automatically, the host probably has their Calendly event type set to "Email Confirmation". You can't change that on your side, but you can still add the event yourself from the confirmation email.

**Basically,** If the host sends email confirmations, nothing lands on its own. Add the .ics yourself.

## If you send Calendly links yourself

If you are the one sending Calendly links yourself and the people who book with you have this problem, check your event settings in Calendly.

![](https://emin.de/media/calendly-invitation-not-syncing-with-your-google-calendar-here-s-what-to-do/03-edf7b84e.png)
*It will only work if you have calendar invitation enabled, not email reminders.*

1. Log in to your Calendly account.
1. Go to the Event Type that has the problem.
1. In "Notifications" or a section like that, make sure you picked "Calendar Invitations" and not "Email Confirmations".

**Basically,** In your Calendly event type, pick Calendar Invitations instead of Email Confirmations.

## Why Google got stricter

Google has made its spam rules for Google Calendar stricter, and that sometimes changes how invitations from other apps like Calendly get handled. For you as a user the fix is still the Google Calendar setting from the first step. When you allow invitations from everyone, you tell Google to trust these events.

If you go through these steps, your Calendly invitations should show up in Google Calendar again, and you don't miss any more meetings.

**Basically,** Stricter spam rules at Google are behind it, and allowing all invitations fixes it.