Google Calendar integration: your calendar is already a timesheet

Connect Google Calendar to Tackle and every event becomes tracked time - tagged by client, project, or activity, and ready to report, export, or bill. No timers to start. No Friday memory tests.

Google Calendar Calendar
Thursday, 6 August
Acme Kickoff
9:00–10:30 · 4 guests
Internal: Sprint planning
14:00–15:30 · 6 guests
Tackle Tackle
Thursday, 6 August
Acme Kickoff
Type: Meeting Status: Billable
0.0H0.5H1.0H1.5H
Internal: Sprint planning
Type: Internal Meeting Status: Non-Billable
0.0H0.5H1.0H
Total Billable Today
0.0H1.5H

What connecting Google Calendar to Tackle does

When you sign in with Google, Tackle syncs the calendars you choose – including shared and delegated calendars – and keeps them updated automatically. Every event arrives with its title, time, duration, attendees, and description intact.

From there, Tackle’s tags and properties turn raw events into structured time data: “Acme kickoff” becomes 1.5 hours tagged Client: Acme, Type: Meeting. Tagging rules apply automatically to recurring and future events, so the work of categorizing your week shrinks to minutes.

Your data flows one way – from Google Calendar into Tackle. Tackle requests read access to your calendar and never edits or deletes your events.

Who uses the Google Calendar integration

Executive assistants & Chiefs of Staff

Running calendar audits and monthly time reviews for their execs.

Agencies & consultancies

Reconstructing billable hours from meetings instead of chasing timers.

Customer-facing teams

Measuring time spent per account and meeting load per rep.

Operations & HR

Feeding accurate meeting hours into payroll and capacity planning.

Calendars in. Structured, reportable time out.

Tackle sits between the calendars your team already lives in and the systems your business runs on – enriching, tagging, and totalling every event on the way through.

Sources

Tackle

Destinations

Google Calendar logo Google CalendarEvents, guests, duration
Outlook Calendar logo Outlook CalendarShared & delegated
CRM logo CRMAccounts & deals
More sourcesZoom, Slack, task tools
Tackle

Every event, processed on arrival

Enrich data
Automation
Team analysis
AI tagging
Budget planning
Google Sheets logo Google Sheets
Excel, CSV, PDF logo Excel, CSV, PDF
Tackle API logo Tackle API
Zapier & MCP logo Zapier & MCP
CRM write-back logo CRM write-back

One-way sync in. Read-only on your calendars – Tackle never edits or deletes events.

See it in two minutes

Watch how a week of Google Calendar events becomes a tagged, reportable timesheet – from first sign-in to first export.

Why teams connect Google Calendar to Tackle

Time tracking that runs itself

Your meetings are already scheduled. Tackle reads them, tags them, and totals them - so timesheets build themselves while you work.

Answers, not just hours

Sum hours by client, project, meeting type, or person. Run a calendar audit for an exec, or see where a team's week actually went versus the plan.

Your data, wherever you need it

Export any date range to Excel, CSV, PDF, or a live-syncing Google Sheet - formatted for invoicing, payroll, or board reporting.

How to connect Google Calendar to Tackle

Step 1

Create your free Tackle account

  • Go to Sign up and choose Continue with Google.

Step 2

Choose the calendars to sync

  • Grant calendar access, then pick which calendars Tackle should read – your own, shared team calendars, or an exec’s calendar you manage.

Step 3

Set up tags and properties

  • Create tags for clients, projects, or activity types. Add keyword rules (“acme” → Client: Acme) and Tackle tags past and future events for you.

Step 4

Report, export, or build timesheets

  • Open Insights for dashboards, export to Excel/CSV/Sheets, or generate timesheets ready for approval.
Choose Excel format for Google Calendar export

Google Calendar integration FAQ

Yes. After you connect once, Tackle keeps your calendar synced automatically – new, changed, and deleted events are reflected without manual refreshes.

Yes. Tackle imports your calendar history, so you can audit and report on months of past events immediately – not just from the day you sign up.

Yes. You can sync multiple calendars, including shared and delegated calendars – useful for EAs managing an executive’s schedule.

No. The integration reads your calendar; tags and edits made in Tackle stay in Tackle.

Yes. Tackle uses enterprise-grade encryption in transit and at rest.

Yes – calendar sync is included in Tackle’s free plan. Paid plans add advanced reporting and team features.

Put your Google Calendar to work

Connect in under two minutes. Free forever, no credit card.