Can guests add the event to their calendar?

The date and time you set in the essentials do more than print on the cover. They feed the calendar links, the countdown and the automatic reminders, so set them once and check the time zone.

Add to calendar

The invitation's share block carries Add to calendar. A tap opens Google Calendar's new-event page with the title, the start time, an end three hours later, the venue as the location and the invitation's link in the details. Without a date, the page opens with no dates set.

The reminder e-mails before the event offer two links under the event details: Google Calendar, the same link, and Apple / Outlook, which downloads a calendar file that opens straight into Apple Calendar or Outlook. That file holds one event with the title, time, venue and link, and an alert two hours before. It exists only for a published invitation with a date.

Guests can read their side of it in Add the event to your calendar.

The countdown

A design with a countdown block shows the days, hours, minutes and seconds to the event's date and time, updated every second. Some designs count to a date of the block's own. Once the moment passes it shows zeros.

Countdown looks vary by design: cards, minimal, rings or flip.

Keep them right

1. 1Open the invitation from your dashboard and choose Update details.
2. 2On the Essentials step, check Date & time and Time zone. The hint under the date reads "Drives the countdown, calendar links and reminders."
3. 3Choose Save.

A changed date or time reaches the calendar links and e-mails at once. The date printed inside the design follows when you publish again. See Can I change the date or venue after sending?.