Google Calendar integration
Google Calendar plans your events. Revisual makes them worth seeing.
Connect Google Calendar and Revisual turns your events into branded, live-updating calendars for your website, Mailchimp emails, QR codes and screens. Change an event in Google Calendar and Revisual picks it up within seconds.
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- 2.5 million events
- 100,000+ calendar views a week
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- Website
- QR code
- Kiosk
- Hosted page
The problem
Google Calendar is built for planning, not for showing
Google Calendar is a great place to run your events programme. Its website embed is another story. It shows your events, but not in a form worth looking at.
Three views that look the same
The built-in embed offers week, month and agenda views. All three look like Google Calendar, not like your organisation.
No images, no fonts, little control
There is no room for event photos and no control over fonts. A few colour and display settings are all you get.
Limited filtering
You can choose which calendars to include, but not which events. Everything in a calendar shows, or nothing does.
It’s only a calendar
The embed lives on one web page. It doesn’t feed your newsletter, your posters, your lobby screen or a banner on your homepage. Those still get updated by hand.
How it works
From your calendar to your audience in four steps
Keep planning in Google Calendar. Revisual does the rest.
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1Connect Google Calendar
Sign in with your Google account and allow Revisual to see your calendars. Personal Gmail and Google Workspace accounts both work.
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Choose what to show
Tick the calendars you want to publish. Everything else on the account stays private.
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Make it yours
This is where your events change. Pick one of eight templates, add your colours and fonts, and fine-tune layout and behaviour from 250+ options. Your event images and booking links become part of the design.
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Publish everywhere
Add it to WordPress with the free plugin (block or shortcode), paste one script into Wix, Squarespace, Webflow or any site, or share a hosted page. Add your upcoming events to Mailchimp and other email campaigns. The same events feed your QR codes and screens.
What carries over
What your Google Calendar events become
You fill these in when you create an event in Google Calendar. Revisual turns each one into part of a polished event listing.
Where your events go
Worth seeing wherever you show it
Update an event once. Every place it appears updates with it.
Your website
Embed on Wix, Squarespace, Webflow or any site with one script.
Email and Mailchimp
Your upcoming events in every newsletter, straight from Google Calendar. No copying event by event.
WordPress
Free plugin with a block and a shortcode. No coding.
QR codes
Auto-generated codes for posters and flyers that always show what’s on now.
Kiosks and screens
Full-screen displays for lobbies, receptions and digital signage.
Hosted event page
A ready-made events page, even if you have no website.
Visitor subscriptions
Visitors add your events to Google Calendar, Apple Calendar, Outlook or any iCal app.
Alert banners
Show your next event as a banner across your site.
Start with your newsletter
For many organisations, email is where events get seen. Some use Revisual only for Mailchimp: add the events block to your campaign template once, and every new campaign shows what’s coming up in Google Calendar.
Comparison
Revisual vs the built-in Google Calendar embed
| Built-in Google Calendar embed | Revisual | |
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| Templates |
Week, month and agenda views, all in Google’s style
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8 templates, from card grids to monthly views
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| Images |
None
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Event images on cards, hosted pages and emails
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| Branding |
A few colour and display settings; no font control
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Your colours, fonts and layout, 250+ options
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| Filtering |
Whole calendars only
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Filter events by any rule (and / or / is / is not)
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| Channels beyond the website |
None
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Email, QR codes, kiosks, hosted pages, alert banners, visitor subscriptions
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| Analytics |
None
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Impressions, views and engagement per event, by source
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| Schema markup for Google |
None
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Event markup added to your page (can be switched off)
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| Removing or changing it |
Edit every page that has the embed code
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Change or remove it from your dashboard. No site edits.
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Templates
Images
Branding
Filtering
Channels beyond the website
Analytics
Schema markup for Google
Removing or changing it
Customise far beyond the embed settings
Google’s embed settings let you change a few colours and pick a view. Revisual gives you eight templates and 250+ design and behaviour options, so your calendar looks like your website, on phones as well as desktops.
Show the right events to the right people
The built-in embed shows whole calendars. Revisual filters by rule, so you can show only workshops on one page and only family events on another, from the same calendar.
Search engines can read it
Revisual adds Event schema markup to the page your calendar sits on. That makes your events eligible for rich results in Google Search. The built-in iframe cannot do that. The markup is optional, so you can switch it off.
You can see what works
The Event Engagement report shows impressions, views and engagement ratio for every event, so you can see which events people actually open. You can split it by source: widget, direct link, QR code or email.
Who it’s for
Built for organisations that run their events in Google Calendar
Venues and cultural spaces
Concerts, exhibitions and performances, with photos and booking links, on your website, in your newsletter and on the screen by the door.
Clubs and community groups
Training sessions, fixtures and socials, kept in a shared Google Calendar. Members see what’s on without anyone updating the website.
Non-profits
Workshops, fundraisers and volunteer days. Show public events to everyone and keep internal ones private, from the same calendar.
Event promoters
Every date across every venue, in one branded listing. The Engagement report shows which events get noticed and which get opened.
Hotels and hospitality. Activities, dining events and live music, shown with photos before arrival and during the stay.
Trusted by 300+ organisations
“When I realized what Revisual does, my mind exploded. I realized that Revisual was a great tool that makes things super easy and flowing. Using Revisual transformed the prestige of our company. I am super grateful. When marketing to a new client, Revisual helps me gain their trust.”
FAQ
Google Calendar on your website: frequently asked questions
Using Outlook instead? See the Outlook integration
How do I customise the Google Calendar embed?
Google’s embed settings let you change a few colours, choose a week, month or agenda view and pick which calendars to include. For images, your own fonts, card layouts and event-level filters, connect your calendar to Revisual and choose from eight templates and 250+ options.
Is there an alternative to the Google Calendar embed?
Yes. Revisual connects to Google Calendar and turns your events into a branded, mobile-friendly event calendar you can embed on any website. It also adds Event schema markup for Google and sends the same events to email, QR codes and screens.
Which Google accounts work?
Revisual works with personal Gmail accounts and Google Workspace accounts. With Workspace’s default settings, no admin approval is needed. If your administrator has restricted third-party apps, they may need to approve Revisual first. Revisual works with the Google Calendar you already have; signing up does not create a Google account.
How quickly do changes in Google Calendar appear?
Within seconds. When you add, edit or delete an event in Google Calendar, your embedded calendars, hosted pages and QR code pages show the change straight away. Emails include it from your next send.
Can I show only some of my events?
Yes. Choose which calendars to include, then filter events by rule (and / or / is / is not). Internal events stay private and each audience sees its own events. To filter by tag, add words starting with # to the event description, such as #workshop.
How do I add my Google Calendar to WordPress?
Install the free Revisual plugin, connect Google Calendar in your Revisual account, and add your calendar with the Revisual block or a shortcode. No coding is needed.
Does Revisual post my events to listing sites?
No. Revisual does not post to listing sites such as Eventbrite or Facebook Events. Your events appear only where you place them: your website, emails, QR codes, screens and hosted pages. Visitors can also subscribe to them in their own calendar app.
How much does Revisual cost?
You can connect Google Calendar on the free plan. Revisual’s plans are based on usage: the free plan includes the core features with limits, such as the number of active integrations and widget views. Paid plans raise those limits and add a few extra features, and each comes with a 30-day full-feature trial. See pricing.
Keep planning in Google Calendar. Make your events worth seeing.
Connect Google Calendar, pick a template, and publish. Your website, emails and posters stay up to date from then on. Works with Google Calendar or Outlook.
Revisual is an independent product and is not affiliated with or endorsed by Google. Google Calendar is a trademark of Google LLC.