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When you connect Google Calendar, the sessions you create or change in SmartCookie appear in your Google Calendar on their own. They go in a new calendar called “SmartCookie”. If you delete a session in SmartCookie, it’s deleted in Google Calendar too. The connection goes one way only: from SmartCookie to Google. If what you want is to bring the sessions you already have in Google Calendar into SmartCookie, that’s something else: see Import your sessions from Google Calendar.

Connect your Google account

  1. At the top of the menu on the left, click your business name and choose Settings (Team settings if you’re a teacher on someone else’s team).
  2. In the menu on the left, click Integrations.
  3. On the Google Calendar card, click Connect. A window opens explaining what will happen.
Google Calendar card with the Beta label and the Connect button highlighted with number 3

Google Calendar card in Integrations. The blue number is step 3.

  1. Click Connect Google Calendar.
Google Calendar sync window with what happens when you connect and the Connect Google Calendar button numbered 4

The window that explains what will happen

  1. Choose your Google account and give SmartCookie permission. If Google shows you checkboxes, tick them all: without them, your sessions don’t reach Google Calendar. You can pick any Google account, it doesn’t have to be the one you log in to SmartCookie with. You’ll come back to Integrations and the card will show the Disconnect button and “Connected as ana@yourschool.com”: you’re connected.

What happens after you connect

  • SmartCookie creates a new calendar called “SmartCookie” in your Google account. Your other calendars aren’t touched.
  • The sessions you create or change from now on are copied to that calendar. The ones you already had aren’t copied on their own: to send one, open it in SmartCookie, change something and save it. If you don’t change anything, you can’t save.
  • Your students with an email get the Google Calendar invite, and an update when you change the session. You can’t turn these invites off. If they book from your booking link, they don’t get the Google invite. They get the SmartCookie confirmation email instead, with the Google Meet link if the session has one.
  • You can add a Google Meet link to your sessions: Add a Google Meet link to a session.
The Google Calendar connection is new and we’re still improving it. If an event looks out of date, change something in the session in SmartCookie and save it to send it again.

If you change something in Google Calendar

Changes you make in Google Calendar don’t reach SmartCookie. If you move an event in Google, your session stays at the old time in SmartCookie. Always change your sessions in SmartCookie.

Sessions you imported from Google Calendar

Sessions you imported aren’t copied to the “SmartCookie” calendar: they were already in your usual Google Calendar. If you change them in SmartCookie, the change doesn’t reach Google: change them in Google Calendar too.

Disconnect Google Calendar

In Integrations, click Disconnect. You’ll see “Google Calendar disconnected”. Events already in the “SmartCookie” calendar stay there. If you connect again, SmartCookie uses the same calendar. If you don’t want it, delete it yourself in Google Calendar. If the card shows Reconnect, SmartCookie has lost permission to use your Google Calendar. Click that button and follow steps 4 and 5.

Use a different Google account

  1. In Integrations, click Disconnect.
  2. Click Connect.
  3. Click Connect Google Calendar.
  4. Choose the other Google account and give SmartCookie permission.
What happens:
  • SmartCookie creates a new calendar called “SmartCookie” in the new account.
  • Your future sessions move to that calendar with new Google Meet links. A recurrence that is still running moves whole, past sessions included.
  • Your students get a cancellation email from the old account and the new Google invite with the new link.
  • Sessions that already ended and the one in progress stay in the old account’s “SmartCookie” calendar. If you don’t want it, delete it yourself in Google Calendar.
  • If you connect the same account again, SmartCookie uses the same calendar and sends no emails.
  • If you unlink the old account before switching, SmartCookie can’t cancel its events and your students keep the old invite. Switch first, unlink after.
The connected account shows in Account > Login methods with the label “Used for Google Calendar”. While it’s connected, you can’t unlink it. More details in Change your name, email, language, time zone or password.

If Google says “Access blocked”

If you use Google Workspace (an email with your school’s domain, like ana@yourschool.com), Google may show “Access blocked”. It means your school’s Workspace admin blocks outside apps. Only they can fix it:
  1. In the Google Admin console, go to Security > Access and data control > API controls > Manage third-party app access.
  2. Find SmartCookie and mark it as Trusted.
Then try again. You can send this article to your admin.

What you can’t do

  • You can’t choose which Google calendar your sessions go to: they always go to the “SmartCookie” calendar.
  • You can’t bring changes you make in Google Calendar into SmartCookie.
  • You can’t turn off the Google Calendar invites your students with an email get.
  • You can’t use two Google accounts at the same time for Google Calendar.
Last modified on October 27, 2026