Double bookings are preventable. The cause is almost always the same: your scheduling tool only checks one calendar while you have commitments on others. Here's how to fix this permanently.
Step 1: Identify All Your Active Calendars
List every Google Calendar account where you have real commitments: work Gmail, personal Gmail, side projects, shared family calendar. These all need to be checked for conflicts.
Step 2: Use a Scheduling Tool That Checks All Calendars Simultaneously
Most tools only check one calendar. Cal Clear checks all connected Google Calendar accounts in parallel before showing any available slot. This eliminates the root cause of most double bookings.
Step 3: Connect All Your Google Accounts to Cal Clear
In Cal Clear settings, add each Google account you identified in Step 1. Cal Clear requests free/busy access for each — it sees when you're busy but not the content of your events.
Step 4: Configure Buffer Time
Add buffer time between bookings in Cal Clear settings. This prevents the situation where a meeting runs long and you're immediately late for the next one — a de facto double booking.
Step 5: Test Your Setup
Add a test event to one of your secondary calendars. Visit your Cal Clear booking link. Confirm that the blocked time no longer shows as available. If it does, check your calendar connections in settings.
Step 6: Keep OAuth Tokens Current
Calendar connections require active OAuth tokens. Periodically check that all your connected calendars are still authorized in Cal Clear settings. If a token expires, reconnect that account.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Why does my scheduling tool still create double bookings?
Most likely it's only checking one of your calendars. If you have multiple Google accounts (work + personal), connect all of them to Cal Clear so it checks them all simultaneously.
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