Revisual.io vs. Google Calendar
Embeds
In the age of digitalization, having an easy-to-use, customized, and professional embedded website calendar is crucial to increasing your business (or your clients') and/or increasing staff awareness and attention.
Two widely used options available for businesses are Google Calendar and Revisual.io. While many things are similar, there are some important differences.
Before we begin: ‘Thank you!’ Google Calendar for giving us the opportunity to integrate with you. It’s because of your provision of a calendar option that we’re able to collect all the necessary details to display our partners' business events.
Thank you, Google Calendar, for being such an amazing partner!
Comparison
 Google Calendar
List View of Google Calendar |
 Revisual.io
List View of Revisual.io |
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Google Calendar
Monthly View of Google Calendar |
Revisual.io
Monthly View of Revisual.io |
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Google Calendar
Weekly View of Google Calendar |
Revisual.io
Weekly View of Revisual.io |
Google Calendar specializes in tracking your events, sending you and your guests/participants timely reminders.
Revisual.io specializes in making your data pretty. Our integration pulls in your event information and organizes it into fully customizable calendar views and event alerts.
 Revisual.io |
Google Calendar |
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| Calendar templates | 7 different-looking views | 3 similar-looking views |
| Embed options | Calendar views and event alerts | Calendar only |
| Filtering | Show events with images only, Merge recurring events, By calendar *NEW* Powerful Advanced Filtering: Mix and match all options to create virtually any filtering combination you need. |
Show/hide declined events, Show/hide completed tasks, By calendar |
| Customize colors & fonts | Over 100 customizable options | Font - no; Each calendar can have different borders and background colors. |
| Removing the calendar | Remove the calendar without modifying the website | Must remove the code from the website |
Pros and Cons
Revisual.io
Pros
- Versatile with multiple calendar views
- Automated event alerts
- Can embed calendar views and events alerts
- Advanced filtering options for events
- Full customization with colors and fonts, ideal for branding
- Simple process to remove or unpublish calendar
Cons
- May require more time to get familiar with the interface and features
- Need to buy a plan
Google Calendar
Pros
- Easy-to-use user interface
- Excellent options for notifications and reminders
- Popular and widely recognized in the industry
- Free tier is usually more than enough
Cons
- Limited to 3 similar-looking calendar views
- Cannot display images
- No event alerts
- No advanced filtering
- No font customization
Choice of Calendar Views
Google Calendar offers three, similar-looking, embeddable calendar views: Week, Month, and Agenda. Although showing different timeframes, these views look more or less the same. There is very little design customization available.
Revisual.io provides multiple, different-looking, embeddable views for different needs (7 templates at the moment), making it a more versatile option.
In addition, we offer a template that creates an event alert banner.
Event Alerts
Event ALERTS is an automated, 'set it and forget it' statement which gives information about an upcoming (or happening now) event. This innovative tool drives conversion and saves you time. You can customize when and where to the event highlight display based on different settings, and you won't have to manually update – the highlight will disappear once the event is over!
Note: Beta testing phase
Filtering Options
Google Calendar allows filtering events based on declined events, completed tasks, and by calendar.
Revisual.io offers more design-friendly filtering options, such as displaying events with images only, merging recurring events, and filtering by calendar.
In addition, our *NEW* Powerful Advanced Filtering lets you mix and match your filtering options (according to your integration) in an infinite number of combinations using the connectors:
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Customizing Colors and Fonts
Google Calendar lets you assign unique borders and background colors for each calendar, making it easier to see which event belongs to which topic.
Revisual.io allows complete color and font customization to suit your (or your client's) business branding. You can play around with over 100 customizable options.
Removing the Calendar
To remove a Google Calendar embedded calendar from your website, you need to go to your website and remove it from the website code.
Removing the Revisual.io calendar is much easier and more convenient. You just unpublish it without modifying the website. Your calendar waits for you in case you wish to use it again. For example, for special events calendars such as Christmas, Easter, VBS, etc.
Awesome Features For Today’s Organizations
Typography
Choose the font type, weight, and size for each major element to ensure it matches your
styling and branding.
Colors & Layout
Choose the colors and calendar layout type to
match your specific needs.
No Coding
Set up a calendar view or event alert in 5 minutes or less. No coding required. A one-time add of one line of script to your website enables embedding. Links and QR codes are auto-generated –> just ‘copy/paste’ for ‘click/scan and go’.
Automatic Syncing
We’ll ensure your Revisual calendar(s) are always updated as per your Google data. We sync calendar views once or twice per day (according to your plan). You can manually sync from Revisual at any time as needed.
Responsive Design and Mobile App Ready
Your calendar views and event alerts meet your viewers on whichever device they are using. Our widgets work on the most modern websites and respond nicely on all devices. Your people can see your widgets via their desktop and mobile browsers.
And Tons More!
• Responsive Format
Our calendar view works on the most modern websites and responds nicely on all devices.
• Multiple Views
Choose from Full Calendar, Weekly View, Events List, Cards (Grid), Cards (List), Slider, and the new Detailed List.
• Auto and manual sync
Automatic: We will ensure your calendar is always updated. Depending on your plan, updates happen once a day
(3 am UTC or 4AM UTC depending on plan) or twice a day (12 am and 12 pm UTC).
Manual: You can always push unlimited changes from within the app.
Getting Started
Step 1
You create a Google calendar that matches your marketing and promotion goals and add the relevant events.
For example:
- Special events this year
- Discounts and promotions this month
- Manager meetings
- What’s happening today?
- Project deadline reminders
- Upcoming workshops / concerts / lectures /
Best practice tip...
Since Revisual can handle multiple calendars on multiple websites, the more specific your calendar, the more relevant it will be to your viewer…plus it reduces information overload (TMI).
Step 2
You get started for free on Revisual by creating an account and setting up the Revisual–Google Calendar integration.
Step 3
In Revisual, you choose a calendar or event alert template and tell us from which calendar to pull in the data.
Step 4
While we offer default design settings which are quite pleasing, the real power and magic is when you spend a few minutes to style your calendar or event alert according to the relevant branding.
Step 5
When you are ready, you click Publish. We auto-generate the embed code (copy/paste into your website); link for hosting; and QR code.
Real Clients
“Before using this solution, we were adding our events into WordPress manually as calendar events on top of entering them into CCB.
I LOVE that all I need to do is have our events loaded into our CCB calendar and Revisual pulls them directly, including any linked forms. I really like that there are multiple ways to format each calendar, and on top of that I really enjoy being able to customize the colors and look/feel to match our branding!”
Nicole To
Creative Director
Pricing & Signup
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