How to Sync Contacts between BIGContacts and Google Calendar

Learn how to sync contacts between BIGContacts and Google Calendar, allowing you to manage your appointments and contact information effortlessly across both platforms.
 

Example

Consider a situation where you're managing your client meetings using BIGContacts while also tracking your personal or work schedule in Google Calendar. Without synchronization, you risk missing important meetings or creating double bookings. Syncing both calendars ensures that all your appointments, reminders, and updates are automatically reflected on both platforms, providing peace of mind.

Benefits:

• Effortless Synchronization: Automatically sync your BIGContacts and Google calendars, ensuring you never miss an appointment.
• Time Savings: Reduce manual work and minimize the risk of scheduling errors by eliminating the need for manual data entry.
• Improved Meeting Management: Ensure meeting invitations, updates, and reminders are seamlessly reflected across both calendars, keeping your scheduling process smooth.

To Sync Contacts between BIGContacts and Google Calendar

Step 1: Access the Personal Settings Section

• In the upper right-hand corner, click the "Gear" icon.

• Select the "Personal Settings" link.

Step 2: Choose Google Sync

• Switch to the "Google Sync" tab in your Personal Settings section.

Step 3: Connect Your Google Account

• Click the "Connect Google Account" button.

Step 4: Enter Your Google Credentials

• When the Google sign-in screen appears, enter your Google account credentials.

Step 5: Select Your Google Calendar

• Choose the Google Calendar you want to sync with BigContacts.

• Decide if you want to send meeting invitations and updates automatically.

Important Note: Initial Synchronization Limitation

• Please note that Google limits the initial synchronization with Google Calendar. It may sync up to 50 existing meetings or none at all. However, all new meetings will sync seamlessly going forward.

Step 6: Test the Synchronization

• To verify synchronization, schedule a meeting in your BigContacts account.

• Check your Google Calendar; the meeting should appear instantly if synchronization is correctly set up.

Testing Calendar Sync:

• To test syncing from BigContacts to Google Calendar, schedule a meeting in your BigContacts calendar.

• To test syncing from Google Calendar to BigContacts, follow our article on proper meeting scheduling.

Note: Review the attached article for scheduling meetings on Google Calendar to ensure direct linkage with contact records.

And that's all about syncing contacts. If you encounter any issues or have any questions, feel free to contact our support team.