The iCalendar attachment feature allows you to include an iCalendar (.ics) file in booking confirmation emails. This file contains essential booking details, making it easy for customers or admins to add the event to their preferred calendar applications.

How to enable iCalendar attachments?

1. In Settings –> Email Notifications, enable “Send booking confirmation email (to customer)” or “Send booking confirmation email (to admin).”
2. Once enabled, a new option will appear to “Attach iCal file to email.”
3. Enable this option to include an iCalendar file with booking details in the confirmation email.
4. Press “Save“.

How to customize the iCalendar event text?

To set the summary and description of an iCalendar event, open Settings –> Translation/Wording –> Advanced Settings

Edit the field “Google calendar event / iCal summary”

Available placeholders are the following:

• #service_name – service name
• #customer_name – customer’s name
• #appointment_id – unique appointment id

Edit the field “Google calendar event / iCal description”

Available placeholders are the following:

• #customer_name – customer’s name
• #customer_phone – customer’s phone
• #customer_email – customer’s email
• #customer_comment – customer’s comment
• #items_count – count of places (items) booked (for services with more than one item per time slot)
• #appointment_id – unique appointment id
• #customer_custom – coma separated list of custom fields.
• #total_amount – total price with tax for appointment / reservation
• #service_name – name of service