Features 3

Calendar Sync

See who's off in an instant.

Key takeaways:

  • Sync your Google or Outlook calendar using one of our native integrations to keep your team's schedule at your fingertips. 

  • See your team's leave in real time, without logging in to work systems.

  • Leave Dates keeps you organised and gives you healthy work boundaries.

Stay in the loop without logging in

After a long week, you finally settle in to relax. But then it hits: someone’s off next week — who is it? How long for? Did you sort their cover? You're trying to avoid a late-night login so you don't have to deal with a flood of work emails and other to-dos, but guess what — you can sync Leave Dates with your favourite calendar

Calendar Sync automatically adds your leave, your department’s, and the company’s time-off schedules to Google, Outlook, and all supported calendars. Keeping everything in one place with your daily commitments and helping you avoid scheduling conflicts or double-booked meetings.

Meet Amelia: The 'always on' CEO of a small design studio

She is dedicated to her employees’ wellbeing, but also constantly worries about being caught off guard by staff holidays – cover for her highly skilled team is expensive and hard to come by.

It’s 11pm on a Tuesday night. 

Amelia wakes with a start and is hit by a wave of anxiety. Is Lucy off on Thursday? Or was that next week? If she is, I need to reschedule the client kickoff call. She tries to go back to sleep – it can wait until morning. No, it can’t. The client is in Australia, if I wait until morning they’ll have finished for the day and won’t get the message until the day of the call. She has to check now.

She hasn’t enabled calendar sync, so checking the dates means opening up the Leave Dates app (at least she doesn’t have to go downstairs for her work laptop) to check the wall chart. She does, and she finds the date. But she also finds six new requests, a whole load of notifications and a reminder of several tasks she hasn’t yet ticked off. The floodgates are open, and her mind is full of work, work, work. 

There’s no chance she’s getting back to sleep any time soon, leading to a frazzled morning after.

How does Calendar Sync work?

There are two ways you can sync your leave, depending on your needs:

1. Personal calendar sync:

Add your own leave to your Google or Outlook calendar. When you are on leave, you will appear as busy, so colleagues can’t book over your holiday or accidentally schedule meetings with you while you’re away. No more calendar clashes. No manual blocking required.

To set this up, go to Settings  →  Calendar Sync  →  Add Calendar

Then simply connect your account and approve access. Your leave will then be synced in real time.

2. External calendar feeds

You can view leave within your department or company, overlayed in your calendar, using external calendar feeds. This allows you to view any external leave events without directly adding them to your personal calendar.

When you go to  Settings  →  Calendar Sync, you will notice three feeds - personal, department and company - the options you see will depend on your level of access.

Copy the URL you need from this list and add it to Google, Outlook, or another supported calendar.

The bottom line

Calendar Sync prevents time off from clashing with meetings, and pulls your scheduling information into one familiar spot.

So next Sunday morning, when the group chat is popping off trying to organise the next annual friends' trip, it's no problem – you’ve got your dates to hand and are hot to trot. You won't kill the vibes with ‘I need to check my rota’, you can swipe straight from your calendar to the EasyJet app.

And for those busy HR managers juggling leave requests from the whole company, you can double-check your team's leave dates without the cascade of distracting notifications.

Less admin, no schedule clashes, no hassle. All thanks to Calendar Sync on our Essentials and Plus plans.

Frequently asked questions

Calendar Sync is available to users on the Essentials and Plus plans. All users can sync their own leave, and those with access can sync department or company-wide leave.

No. The sync is one-way — your leave information is added to your calendar, but your personal events remain private and are never shared back.

A personal sync adds your own leave directly to your calendar and marks you as ‘busy’. An external calendar feed overlays your team or company’s leave calendar without adding events to your own.

Your simple guide to syncing Leave Dates with your calendars is available here in our knowledge base.

Yes, you certainly can. Sync your company calendar from Leave Dates straight to your Outlook or Google Calendar. Any company data that goes into Leave Dates will be synced automatically when enabled.

Get step-by-step setup instructions here.

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