SimpleClinic can synchronise to external calendars such as the following:
- Apple iCloud
- Google Gmail or Gsuite
- Microsoft Office 365
- Microsoft Exchange
- Microsoft Outlook.com
This can enable you to synchronise appointments, blocks or events to external calendars, so that events created in those external calendars can also appear in your SimpleClinic diary, and vice versa.
PLEASE NOTE: We cannot guarantee the reliability of third-party calendar integrations, nor can we ensure they will send or receive all necessary information consistently.
While we continue to make improvements where possible, third-party calendar integrations often make changes without notice, which can impact syncing.
Therefore, for the most accurate and dependable appointment management, please treat SimpleClinic as your source of truth. Any additional calendars should be managed manually as needed.
Some limitations or notes on this include:
- Events created in the external calendar, at this stage, will generally only appear in the SimpleClinic diary as "blocks".
- Existing future events in your calendars (in SimpleClinic diary and external calendar) will NOT be synchronised until an event is changed (i.e. edited and saved)
- Historical events in your calendars will not be synchronised
- Events will automatically go BOTH ways between your SimpleClinic and external calendar, it is not possible to set only a single direction.
- Recurring blocks may not sync correctly between SimpleClinic and External Calendars in either direction. This is due to limitations on the external calendar, as they don't reliably send or receive the data needed for this functionality to work as expected.
- Depending on your calendaring provider event sync can take up to five minutes to push through the different infrastructures. iCloud in particular will take longer than other calendar services.
Please refer to instructions in the article below for configuring SimpleClinic and your calendar for this process to work!