Invite people to your Calendar event

You can invite people who don't use Google Calendar to your event. Simply follow the steps above and invite the person using their email address.

Your guests will receive an email invitation. They can let you know if they're going by clicking the Yes, No or Maybe links in the email.

Tip: For the most reliable experience, use Google Calendar with your Google Account. If you use Google Calendar with a non-Google email address, you may encounter issues when you send invitations and receive RSVPs.

When you create or update an event with guests on Google Calendar, you have the option to email them invitations.

To make guests aware of the event and updates, we recommend that you send these emails. Guests won't get an email if:

• They opt out of email notifications for changes to their calendar.

You can also choose not to send email notifications. Guests' calendars are still updated, unless:

• Google Calendar users have the setting 'Only if the sender is known' and they haven't interacted with you, don't have your email in their contacts, and aren't in the same domain.
• They've chosen to not automatically add events to their calendar.

Tip: Guests' calendars are always updated after they click 'Yes' or 'Maybe' in the invitation email.

Non-Google Calendar users and Google Calendar users with a non-Gmail email provider receive an email, which updates their calendar per the settings of their calendar service.

You can set notifications to remind yourself of the event beforehand. Events that you create use the default notification from your settings. You can add up to five notifications for each event. These notifications:

• Aren't shared with Google Calendar guests. Your Google Calendar guests receive reminders for your event based on their own settings.

• Are shared with non-Google Calendar guests. Based on the calendar service that your guests use, they get the notifications that you set up or the notifications that they select in their calendar.

Learn more about setting event-level notifications.

If you're not in the same organisation or guests haven't interacted with you in the past, it's possible that your guest may need to RSVP through the email invitation before the event gets added to their calendar.

We recommend that you remind them through your preferred communication channel to RSVP to the event in the email by clicking 'Yes' or 'Maybe'.