Connect Google Calendar

Overview

Connecting Google Calendar lets MileIntel pick up travel events from your schedule — conferences, client meetings in other cities, vacation blocks — and turn them into trips. Combined with Gmail, this gives MileIntel a complete picture of your travel life without you entering anything manually.

Steps

1. Go to Settings from the sidebar (gear icon).
2. Open the Integrations tab.
3. Click Connect Calendar.
4. Google prompts you to authorize calendar read access. Click Allow.
5. Choose which calendars to sync. You'll see a list of all your Google calendars — toggle on the ones that contain travel events.
6. MileIntel scans your selected calendars and creates trips from detected travel events.

How Events Become Trips

MileIntel looks for calendar events that signal travel: events with location fields containing airport codes or city names, multi-day events in different cities, and events with flight numbers or hotel names in the title or description. When it finds a match, it creates a trip with the dates and destination pre-filled.

Key Details

• Select specific calendars. If you have a "Work Travel" calendar, sync just that one. No need to give access to your personal calendar if it doesn't have travel events.
• Two-way awareness. MileIntel reads your calendar but doesn't write to it. Your calendar stays exactly as-is.
• Trip intent detection. Calendar events help MileIntel classify trips as business or leisure — a conference in Denver reads differently than "Anniversary trip to Maui."
• Ongoing sync. New calendar events are picked up automatically. Add a flight to your calendar next week, and MileIntel will see it.

Tips

1. If your company uses Google Workspace, your work calendar often has the richest travel data. Connect it for the best auto-detection results.
2. Calendar sync pairs well with Gmail sync — together they catch trips that either source alone might miss.

Troubleshooting

Issue: Calendar events aren't turning into trips. Fix: Make sure the events have a location field filled in, or include destination info in the title. An event called "Team offsite" with no location won't be detected — but "Team offsite — Austin, TX" will.Issue: Personal events are being flagged as trips. Fix: Deselect personal calendars in Settings > Integrations. Only sync calendars that contain actual travel events.