Calendar, booking and reminders

Appointments, calendar sync, online booking, reminders and notifications.

• Book and manage appointments

  Click an empty time to book, or drag down to choose the length. Drag a booking to move it, right-click for everything else, and set working hours and breaks so the calendar shows when you see clients.

• Connect Google, Outlook, iCloud or another calendar

  Paste your calendar’s private iCal address to read its appointments into Olive Grove. It syncs every 15 minutes, read only, and works with Google, Outlook or Microsoft 365, iCloud and others.

• See your appointments in your phone’s calendar

  Turn on the calendar feed and subscribe to its address in your phone’s or computer’s calendar: your appointments appear there and stay up to date, labelled by initials and service only. Nothing clinical leaves your computer.

• Set up online booking

  Clients book themselves on your own page, inside your working hours. They get a confirmation and reminders by email and can change or cancel until the time you set. Bookings appear in your calendar.

• The waitlist: fill cancelled times

  Clients who find no time that suits them on your booking page can join your waitlist. When an online booking is cancelled or declined, the people waiting are emailed that a time has opened, and the first to book it gets it. You can also offer a time to someone by hand.

• Appointment reminders to clients

  Turn on automatic email reminders and clients with an email address get your reminder the day before, 2 hours before, or both. Or send a day’s reminders yourself, from your own email program.

• Notifications and the bell

  The bell in the header lists what needs you. Windows notifications arrive before each appointment, each morning, at the end of the day and weekly, with clients’ initials rather than names unless you choose.