Today, we are very excited to announce a major new enhancement to Presdo—syncing between Presdo and Google Calendar. We are very delighted to share the news with you!
Up until now, Presdo has been a great tool for people who organize all of their events within the app. But let’s face it, a lot of people already use calendars, and until now, there was no good way to get people’s schedules into Presdo. Presdo was sometimes considered an unreachable island of functionality, however great it might have been once you got here!
Some users suggested that we create a one-time calendar importer function to manage the gap, but given the dynamically changing nature of people’s calendars, we knew that wasn’t good enough. The Presdo team has invested considerable effort to create a syncing capability that we would be proud of, and we’d like to take you on a brief tour of it.
Works with Your Availability
What does syncing with Google Calendar give you? Briefly, you can now use Presdo to schedule events with your availability in mind. When you schedule a Presdo event in your desired time window, Presdo offers multiple times from this time window to your guests to gather responses. With sync, there’s a new and valuable twist.
Let’s say you’re traveling and will be in town to meet with someone on Thursday, and you’re trying to set up some meetings for Thursday.
Before syncing, the times that would be suggested for Thursday were only scheduled around other events you already had on Presdo. Without information about your availability, Presdo suggests times spread throughout Thursday to your guests:

With Google Calendar sync, Presdo now has access to your calendar and events and knows not to suggest times during which you are unavailable. Let’s say you have already booked meetings between 9-10:30am and 1:30 to 3:30 Thursday. On your new event, Presdo now suggests only times that are still available to guests:

See how the times suggested to guests take note of your availability? Cool, huh?
One View Inside Your Google Calendar
What we’ve described so far is only one half of the new sync feature.
The syncing capability continuously updates any changes in both directions. When you confirm a specific time for an event on Presdo, your event is automatically placed on your Google Calendar:

The events that you schedule using Presdo are placed onto a separate and personalized calendar that you are automatically subscribed to called “Presdo Events”. This way, you can clearly distinguish between the events coming from Presdo versus your own Google Calendar events.
And as you might expect, if you reschedule the times for Presdo events, they get automatically updated in Google Calendar. Many of you have asked for the ability to automatically save events and change them on your calendar, and we’re very happy to finally deliver this capability to you.
Other Cool Things
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Events before and after – since Presdo now has access to your Google Calendar, it does some cool things to make the overall scheduling experience better.Whenever you see specific times being proposed inside Presdo, you will see a simple pop-up that shows your agenda for that day.

The day agenda shows your events before and after the time in question so you have better context to decide whether it’s a good time that’s being proposal.
- Works with multiple Google Calendars – Since any Google account can subscribe to more than one Google Calendar at a time, such as a work and family calendar, you can also sync Presdo with any selection of the calendars you have access to, so you can control the availability that Presdo sees for you.When you set up syncing, just choose which calendars you want to sync:

- Works with Google Apps – finally, our syncing feature works for both normal Google accounts as well as with calendars inside Google Apps accounts, so it’s great for professional users using Google Apps.
With sync with Google Calendar, we believe Presdo will benefit a whole new audience of users already using Google Calendar to keep track of their schedules. You now have an easy-to-use, collaborative tool that works with your Google Calendar to find the best time for group events.
So give it a spin, and get started here! More information about our sync feature can be found in our help.
We look forward to your feedback on the new feature!