Connecting Google Calendar

When a Booking Automation is part of your scope, ELION reads real availability from a connected Google Calendar and creates real events : with a Google Meet conference when configured.

#How it works

1. 1The calendar is connected through Google's OAuth flow. Credentials stay server-side.
2. 2ELION checks the calendar's real busy/free periods to show available times.
3. 3A visitor selects an available slot and enters their details.
4. 4ELION re-checks the slot and creates the Google Calendar event.
5. 5A Google Meet link is generated with the event when enabled.
6. 6The booking is stored and a confirmation is sent to the customer.

ELION never shows a booking as confirmed unless the calendar event was actually created, and never invents a Meet link. If the calendar is unavailable, the booking page says so.

#Who connects the calendar

• ELION's own calendar powers strategy calls booked from the public booking page.
• Your calendar powers bookings for your own Booking Automation. An ELION administrator connects it from the admin console using the Google account that should own the events.

#How availability is calculated

Available times respect your configured rules:

• working hours and timezone,
• meeting duration and buffer between meetings,
• busy periods already on the connected calendar,
• minimum notice and the maximum booking window.

Two visitors can never book the same slot: the slot is re-checked and reserved before the event is created, and duplicate bookings are rejected.

#What happens after a booking

The booking appears in the ELION admin console and, where relevant, in the client dashboard - with date, time, timezone, customer, status and the Google Meet link. Cancellations and reschedules update both the calendar event and the ELION record.