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cal.com compatible ics calendar or alternative booking suite? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 3 days ago by VanillaWasp@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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I need to add booking to my website. I stumbled upon cal.com which seemed great. However I've run into 2 issues.

My current options for calendars are Protonmail and cpanel/webmail/roundcube.

cal.com doesn't really work with either of these. For proton its mostly on proton's side, their calendars are read-only externally + a bit buggy: https://github.com/calcom/cal.com/issues/5756

Roundcube uses caldav, and cal.com's support is still in beta with most caldev's being unsupported: https://github.com/calcom/cal.com/issues/3457

Roundcube got me the farthest but the booking emails just don't get sent and the calendar event pops up maybe an hour later + there's 75% the booking just doesn't work. I was told this was the calendars fault 😂.

Are there any selfhosted calendar implementations that support ics feed, external viewing ,etc etc that I can throw on a standard webserver?

Or are there any better foss booking systems?

I just need to book clients and connect it back to a working calendar that's not locked to a desktop. I thought this would be a solved problem in 2026...

I'm not trying to pay for yet ANOTHER software on top of business mail, and a webserver.

Thanks.

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[–] non_burglar@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago (4 children)

So you are asking about something that seems simple, but is actually many different components working together. Apple and google have really made this integrated for a long time.

What you want is:

caldav/cardav server (radicale is good)
integration into your email client (Thunderbird can do this)
share-able webDAV service
some auth in front of this

I've left out all the plumbing needed to either support your access to this, or provide secure integration with a 3rd party email service.

This is a hard problem to solve for self-hosting. I have a self-hosted radicale instance and I get around the inter-connectivity by simply exporting ICS files and sending them to folks. Updating meeting times, setting calendar sharing is all very difficult because of above.

[–] VanillaWasp@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Maybe I'm misunderstanding, but you're saying shared/sync'd and updateable calendars outside of big tech like google is still an unsolved problem?

[–] neon_nova@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I’ve been looking into this a bit already. I’m actually on a road trip and will start driving soon, but if your respond to this comment I can fill you in on what I’ve learning in the next day or two.

[–] VanillaWasp@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 days ago

never hurts to learn.

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