Before, all members received an .ics invitation for their events, from which they could manually add an event to their personal calendar. This process isn’t ideal: on top of being manual to set up, it also means that events aren’t automatically updated on personal calendars if the details of the event changed. With the majority of Meetup members using a Gmail account, we saw the opportunity to leverage the email provider’s automatic event creation feature in Google Calendar. 

Now, the email Meetup sends after a member RSVPs automatically creates an event in the attendee’s Google calendar. If the member doesn’t use Google, no problem—the same email still contains the original .ics invitation. 

Please note that for automatic event creation to work correctly in Google, a member must first have some personal settings enabled in their Gmail account. We recommend you share this help article with any members who are having trouble seeing their Meetup events displayed in their calendar.