One of the top features within the Gather app is the ability to connect your funeral home calendar to your account, and be able to view and manage all of your events for your staff in one place. This is especially helpful if you have multiple locations and want to track all the scheduled events across your business and all your employees.
At this time we do require you use Google Calendar in order for the connection to work. If you don't already use GMail for your business you will be able to set up a free email account, and connect your new calendar to the Gather account. This will require you to use this new calendar to schedule all of your funeral home events going forward. If your staff has non GMail addresses, they are welcome to continue and use those emails to log in and access the account, but they will need to use the GMail account to schedule events. The second option is that you set up G Suite in your new Google account and create new email addresses for each of your employees.
Once you have your Google Calendar ready to go and you have identified the process of how staff will log in and add events, here are the quick steps of connecting your new calendar to your Gather account:
From the Main Menu on the left, go to My Funeral Home > Connect Your Team Calendar.
Click on the Connect With Google button and select your Google account.
Hit "Allow" to confirm the connection.
Select the Calendar you would like to use, or "Create New Team Calendar" from this window directly.
Huzzah! Your calendar is connected and ready to go.
Once your calendar is connected to your Gather account, the best place to view all of the events will be under the Dropdown Menu in the top right corner of your dashboard. You will see all the events for the current day, events for the past 5 days, and events 25 days into the future. All together you will have the ability to view about 30 days of data for your business.
If you ever need to change the calendar that is connected to your account you can do so any time from this section of the app:
On the calendar connection display click on "click here to select a different calendar".
This will bring you back to the same calendar selection window, where you can choose a different calendar from an existing list or create a new one.
If there's ever a reason that you would like to end a calendar connection on your account all together, please reach out to us via live chat and we will be happy to assist you with that.
If you have any further questions or get stuck during this process, please feel free to click on the chat icon on the bottom right of your screen and we are happy to help!
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Pro Tip: If you have multiple locations that require different Gather accounts, we suggest using the same funeral home calendar to connect to all locations. This way you will be able to see all the events across your funeral homes and employees.
Pro Tip: The connected calendar reflects all events added or changed from both the Gather account and the Google account side, and it will always update in real time.