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ServiceBooked exposes an ICS (iCal) feed of your appointments at a private, token-protected URL. Subscribe to it from any calendar app and your appointments show up alongside your other events — read-only. This is useful when:
  • You don’t want to give us full read/write access to your real calendar.
  • You want appointments visible in a calendar that ServiceBooked doesn’t natively integrate with (Apple Calendar, Notion Calendar, Fantastical).
  • You want a backup view in case our dashboard’s Calendar isn’t where you check first.

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Get your subscribe URL

1

Open Settings → Integrations

Find the ICS feed section.
2

Generate the URL

If you don’t have one yet, click Generate ICS feed. We’ll create a long random URL that’s unique to your organization.
3

Copy the URL

Copy the full URL. Looks like https://app.servicebooked.ca/api/ics/<long-random-token>.

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Subscribe in each app

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Apple Calendar (macOS / iOS)

  • Mac: Calendar → File → New Calendar Subscription → paste URL → set refresh frequency.
  • iPhone/iPad: Settings → Calendar → Accounts → Add Account → Other → Add Subscribed Calendar → paste URL.

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Google Calendar

  • Click the + next to “Other calendars” in the left sidebar → From URL → paste.
  • Note: Google Calendar subscriptions refresh slowly (often once per day), so use this only as a secondary view, not your primary booking calendar.

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Outlook

  • Outlook (web): Calendar → Add calendar → Subscribe from web → paste.
  • Outlook (desktop): File → Account Settings → Internet Calendars → New → paste.

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Other apps

Most calendar apps support “Add by URL” or “Subscribe to ICS”. Look in the calendar’s import / add menu.

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What’s in the feed

Every confirmed appointment in ServiceBooked, with:
  • Customer name and contact info
  • Service type
  • Time and duration
  • Location (if set)
  • A link back to the contact’s page in your dashboard

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Privacy

The URL contains a long random token — guessing it isn’t feasible. Anyone who has the URL can read your feed, so don’t share it publicly.

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Rotating the URL

If you accidentally shared the URL or it leaked, rotate it from Settings → Integrations → ICS feed → Rotate URL. The old URL stops working immediately. Re-subscribe in your calendar app with the new URL. Heads up: rotating breaks every existing subscription. Anyone subscribed (including you on multiple devices) needs to re-subscribe.

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Refresh delay

We update the feed in real-time on our side. The delay you see in your calendar app is whatever refresh interval the app uses — Google Calendar is often 24h, Apple Calendar can be tuned to 5 min, Outlook varies. For real-time visibility, the in-dashboard Calendar view is always live. The ICS feed is a secondary view.

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Next

You’re done with calendar setup. Next:

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