When you RSVP to an event you’d like to attend, you can expect an email from Meetup that automatically creates an event in your Google calendar or sends a .ics invitation if you use a different calendar to track your activities.
If the event you’re attending isn’t automatically added to your Google calendar, there’s a few troubleshooting steps you can try:
- Hit Yes on a Meetup Calendar invite. By hitting "Yes" on the calendar invite in GMail, you can let Google know that you expect to receive emails from Meetup and prevent them from being blocked.
- Add info@meetup.com to your Contacts. Another way to let Google know that you expect to receive emails from Meetup is to add our address info@meetup.com to our contacts. To do so, hover over Meetup’s name in one of the invitations you received until a tooltip appears. From there, click the "+" icon.
- Update your Google Calendar invite settings. Updating your Google Calendar Settings allows you to receive invites from everyone.
- Turn on smart features and personalization in Gmail. This step helps you automatically synchronize Meetup events in your Google Calendar.
- On your computer, open Gmail.
- Click Settings ⚙️ > See all settings.
- Under the “General” tab, next to “Smart features and personalization,” check the box.
- Turn on events from Gmail in Calendar. This step helps your Gmail account and Google Calendar synchronize more smoothly.
- On your computer, open Google Calendar.
- At the top right, click Settings menu ⚙️ > Settings.
- On the left, click Events from Gmail.
- Next to "Show events automatically created by Gmail in my calendar," check the box.
- In the pop-up, click OK.
If you still have issues after trying these steps, don’t hesitate to reach out to our Support team through our Bug reporting form by selecting Issues and errors with events. Please provide as many details as possible about your issue so we can troubleshoot your case more easily.