# Connect Google Calendar to Luca

On Google Calendar, Luca runs booking types directly: your working hours, buffers, and location, with no separate scheduler in between.

## What connecting Google Calendar does

- Runs booking types straight on your Google Calendar: working hours, buffers, and location, no separate scheduler.
- Qualifies a lead against your goal, budget, and timeline bar before it ever offers a slot.
- Reads live availability, books the call, and writes it back immediately.
- Sends reminders in the same thread, and handles reschedules and no-shows in your voice.

## How it works

1. **Connect your account.** In Luca, connect Google Calendar from Settings and sign in once. Luca reads your real-time openings from that point on.
2. **Keep your own rules.** Your Google Calendar working hours and buffers carry over. Luca only ever offers what you'd actually offer.
3. **Let a qualified lead book.** Once a lead clears your bar, Luca offers a real opening in their timezone and confirms the call on your calendar.

## What it reads and writes

- Reads: your live availability, working hours, and buffers.
- Writes: the confirmed booking, a pre-call brief, and the post-call summary.

More detail: [See the booking feature](/features/booking).

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