A one-click add link sends each visitor straight to the calendar app they most likely use, instead of showing them a page where they pick one. Fewer taps means more people actually save your event. If AddCal cannot work out which calendar someone uses, they see the normal picker, so nobody ever hits a dead end.
Get your link
Open your event and go to the share options.
Find the One-Click Add Link card.
Click Copy to copy the link, or Visit to try it yourself.
The link ends in /auto. Share it anywhere you would share a normal event link: an email, a social post, a text message, or a button on your site.
Not seeing the card? It is hidden on events that collect RSVPs and on events with an access code. The link skips your event page, so it would also skip your RSVP form. Use your normal event link for those events.
Pass an email or domain for the best results
This is the single biggest thing you can do to make the link accurate. If you know the person's email address, add it to the link with the d parameter:
https://your-domain.com/e/abc123/[email protected]
You can pass the domain on its own instead, which works just as well and shares less:
https://your-domain.com/e/abc123/auto?d=gmail.com
Capitalisation and surrounding spaces do not matter, so [email protected] and [email protected] behave the same.
Why it helps so much: an email address tells AddCal which calendar someone uses, rather than leaving it to guess from their device. Common providers are recognised straight away, including gmail.com, outlook.com, hotmail.com, live.com, yahoo.com, aol.com, and icloud.com, along with country versions like hotmail.co.uk and yahoo.fr. Company domains are matched by looking up how the company receives its mail, so a business on Google Workspace resolves to Google Calendar and one on Microsoft 365 resolves to Outlook.
If you send through an email or automation tool, use a merge field so each recipient gets their own address filled in. See Using merge fields with Smart Links and Dynamic Links for how merge fields survive into a link.
What your visitor sees
What happens depends on how confident AddCal is.
Confident. They go straight to their calendar with the event ready to save, with no page in between. This happens when you passed their email or domain, or when they have corrected a previous guess.
Less confident. They see a short one-tap page with your event and a single Add to Google Calendar (or Apple, Outlook, and so on) button, plus a Not your calendar? link that opens the full picker.
Not sure at all. They see the normal picker with every calendar option, ordered so the most likely one for their device comes first.
Guessing only from someone's device is deliberately treated as low confidence, so those visitors get the one-tap page rather than being sent somewhere they did not choose. That is why passing an email or domain makes such a difference.
When someone corrects the guess
If a visitor clicks Not your calendar? and picks a different one, AddCal remembers their choice for 90 days. Any one-click add link they open in that browser after that goes straight to the calendar they chose. Nobody has to correct it twice.
Things to know
Apple Calendar and downloaded
.icsfiles always show the one-tap page rather than redirecting, because the download needs the visitor to tap something first.A device setting can override where an event opens. If someone's phone or computer is set to open calendar files in a particular app, the event lands there whatever AddCal resolves. They can still switch from the picker.
Outlook desktop is hidden from the picker on phones, because it hands a file to a program that is not installed there. Apple Calendar and the
.icsdownload cover those visitors.Clicks on one-click add links are tracked like any other event link. See Understanding your analytics.
Related
Add-to-calendar links, the standard link that shows the picker.