Exporting store calendar at a store level 

This feed allows you to export any bookings made in BookThatApp and add them to an external calendar. This is useful if you accept bookings across multiple platforms and need to consolidate bookings in both calendars.

This section covers exporting bookings from BTA.

Feeds are available for:

• all bookings
• bookings for a specific product
• bookings for a specific resource
• scheduled occurrences for specific products 

 

 

All Bookings Feed

To obtain the feed that contains all bookings follow these steps:

1. On the Overview page, you will find a button that will provide you with your store's iCal feed link.
   
2. Select the iCal icon and a pop-up will display that provides the feed link.
3. Select the copy symbol (outlined in red below) and the feed link will be copied to your device's clipboard.

 

Exporting Product-Specific feeds

 

This feed allows you to export product-specific bookings made in BookThatApp and add them to an external calendar. This is ideal for when you need to export specific bookings into specific calendars.

Here are 2 examples of where you may want to export specific product bookings instead of the entire store's bookings:

• to provide a service provider a feed of the bookings for a product where they provide the service
• to sync your bookings for a specific product in an external system such as AirBnb

Note: external calendars can only be added to the store once so you cannot add an external calendar to multiple products. 

Here are the steps to implement this using Google calendar as the external source to sync to:

1. Access a Service page in the app. 
2. Select the More Actions drop-down to reveal the iCal option.
3. Select the iCal icon and a pop-up will display that provides the feed link.
4. Select the copy symbol (outlined in red below) and the product feed link will be copied to your device's clipboard. 

Configuring Google Calendar

Now that you have a feed from BookThatApp you can add it to your Google Calendar.

1. Open Google Calendar.
2. Click on Other Calendars.
3. Select Add by URL.
4. Paste the feed URL.
5. If you want the calendar publicly accessible, check the box.
6. Select Add Calendar.

Using Google Calendar Scripts to poll more frequently

Please see https://github.com/derekantrican/GAS-ICS-Sync. This is a Google Apps Script for syncing ICS/ICAL files faster than the current Google Calendar speed, and allows you to poll more than 1 feed at a time.

Exporting product schedule feed

Rather than the bookings, you can also export the event schedules for the  Class, Activities & Course product profile. This allows merchants to block off time in their personal calendar for events that are scheduled but not yet booked
Also removes the "clutter" from having multiple bookings populating their personal calendar for class products.

1. In the app, navigate under Products, then select the product.
2. Click "More Action" at the top right then select "Schedule".

     4. Copy the provided iCal feed link then go back to your external app to paste the link.