How to Sync Your Google Calendar to Gipper

Connect Google Calendar to Gipper with an iCal link, and your games and events flow into AutoCreate automatically, always up to date, with nothing to re-type.

Table of Contents

• How It Works
• Copy Your iCal Link from Google Calendar
• Add the Link to Gipper

Rather watch than read? Check out the video walkthrough.

How It Works

If you keep your team's schedule in Google Calendar, you never have to type a game into Gipper again. Both calendars can hand you an iCal link, which is a live feed of your schedule. You paste that link into Gipper once, and from then on every game and event syncs into AutoCreate on its own, ready for your graphics and updated whenever your schedule changes. Setup takes just a few minutes.

If You Don't Already Use Google Calendar

This section is for you if you type your schedule into Google Calendar yourself, or you're moving your schedule out of a spreadsheet and into a calendar for the first time. (If your calendar fills in automatically from your scheduling platform, you can skip this.)

AutoCreate pulls four things from every event on your connected calendar: the title, the date, the start time, and the location. If one of those is missing from an event, it will be missing from your graphics too. 

Three rules keep everything clean:

1. Title every event as Sport + vs or at + Opponent. Gipper reads "vs" and "at" to tell home games from away games.

• Women's Soccer vs Buffalo ("vs" means home)
• Women's Soccer at Pepperdine ("at" means away)

Keep the title to just the sport and opponent. The city, state, or venue goes in the location field, not the title. For a tournament round where you don't know your opponent yet, skip "vs" and use a dash: Women's Soccer - Patriot League Quarterfinals.

2. Set a real start time. The start time on the event is the time shown on your graphics, so never use TBD or a placeholder. If the time isn't announced yet, make it an all-day event and edit it once the time is set. Your calendar is a live feed, so the update flows into Gipper automatically.

3. Fill in the location on every event, including away games. The location field is what appears as the venue on your graphics. Use your venue name for home games (Beyer-Small '76 Field) and the city and state for away games (Malibu, Calif.).

Entering a whole season? Start with our template instead of typing events one at a time: Gipper AutoCreate CSV Template. Make your own copy (File > Make a copy), fill out the first tab with one row per game, and follow the Instructions tab to import everything into your calendar in one step.

Copy Your iCal Link from Google

1. Open Google Calendar on a computer and click the Settings gear in the top right, then Settings.
2. Under Settings for my calendars, click the calendar you want to sync.
3. Click Integrate calendar.
4. In the Secret Address in iCal format section, copy the link.

Add the Link to Gipper

1. In Gipper, click AutoCreate in the left sidebar, then open the Calendars tab.
2. Click Add iCal under Personal (visible just to you) or Workspace (visible to everyone in your Workspace; Admins only).
3. Name your calendar (for example, "Team Schedule"), paste your link, and click Continue.
4. Preview your events, then click Add events.

That's it! Your schedule now lives in AutoCreate. For the full walkthrough, see our article on How to Connect Your Schedule to Gipper with an iCal Link.

Thank you for reading! If you have any questions, please contact our team by emailing support@gogipper.com or calling (929) 207-8459.