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title: "Calendars and feeds · BlastoClean docs"
description: "Subscribe Google Calendar, Outlook or Apple Calendar to your schedule, give every cleaner a personal feed of their own visits, and let connected calendars decide when people are free."
url: "https://www.blastoclean.com/docs/calendars-and-feeds"
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# Calendars and feeds

Scheduling · Web and mobile · 2 min read · updated August 13, 2026

**Mint an iCal feed for the whole company or for one person and subscribe to it from Google, Outlook or Apple Calendar; connecting a calendar the other way lets what is already in someone’s day block bookings.**

Calendars point in two directions here, and they are separate features:
**feeds out** put your BlastoClean schedule into the calendar app somebody
already lives in, and **connected calendars in** stop the office booking over
what is already in their day.

## Feeds out

![The calendar feeds section of Settings, with the feed URL shown once](/images/docs/settings-calendar.webp)

Mint a feed and subscribe to it from Google Calendar, Outlook or Office 365, or
Apple iCloud. Two kinds exist:

- **A whole-company feed**, for the office.
- **A personal feed per team member** — just their own visits, for their own
  phone.

Two things about the URL are worth knowing before you mint one:

- **It is shown once.** Copy it when it appears. If you lose it, revoke it and
  mint another — which is a feature, not an inconvenience, because the URL is
  the credential.
- **It can be revoked** at any time, from the same place, which immediately
  stops the calendar that was using it.

![Calendar feeds in the mobile app](/images/docs/mobile-calendar-feeds.webp)

Feeds can be minted, listed and revoked from the phone too.

## Connected calendars in

Connect a Google, Outlook or iCloud calendar and two things follow.

**It decides when you are free.** What is already in the day blocks bookings, so
the free/busy week the booking form draws is the real one — see
[Crews and availability](/docs/crews-and-availability).

**It can stay private while doing that.** A personal calendar blocks bookings
without showing anyone what is on it: the office sees "busy 2–3pm" and never the
title. That is the default, and it is set per calendar.

You also choose **which** calendar assigned work lands in. Move a visit or hand
it to somebody else and the calendars follow — including removing it from the
calendar of whoever is no longer going.

## Signing in and connecting are not the same thing

This is the detail that saves the most confusion. Signing in with Google asks
only to know who you are. **Connect Gmail** asks to send email as you — and only
then, when you switch it on. You are never shown a wall of permissions for a
feature you have not asked for.

That also means the three roles can be three different accounts: sign in with
the Google account work gave you, send from the iCloud address customers have
always used, and take availability from an Outlook calendar. See
[Your own mailbox and calendar](/docs/your-own-mailbox-and-calendar).

## When a provider is down

It never blocks the work. If a calendar provider stops answering, the office is
warned rather than stopped.