Cake and Google Calendar

Cake is booking software for tattoo artists. Google Calendar is optional. Connect it when you want Cake to check your schedule and keep confirmed Cake sessions in one separate calendar.

Open Cake Studio Read our privacy policy

Booking stays in the artist's hands

Cake keeps the tattoo booking loop together: a client sends a request, the artist decides, the client chooses an offered time, and the confirmed session stays with its deposit and consent record. Connecting Google Calendar helps the artist see where that session fits. It never lets Google decide what gets booked.

Read your schedule. Write only Cake's calendar.

The artist chooses the calendars Cake checks. Cake keeps its own booked sessions in a separate calendar, so access has a clear boundary.

Read calendars you choose

Cake reads busy times and event names to show conflicts in the artist's private Studio.

Write Cake sessions

Cake creates this secondary calendar and adds, updates, or removes only Cake session events there.

Cake does not add, change, or delete events on calendars the artist created.

Why Cake requests each permission

Cake asks for the smallest Google Calendar permissions that support the connection.

See availability calendar.freebusy: Checks busy intervals in calendars the artist selects so Cake can avoid suggesting unavailable times.
Read event names calendar.events.readonly: Shows event names with busy blocks in the artist's private Studio. Google free/busy data does not include those names.
List calendars calendar.calendarlist.readonly: Shows the artist their calendars and access roles so they can choose which calendars Cake checks.
Manage Cake's calendar calendar.app.created: Creates the separate Cake sessions calendar and manages confirmed Cake session events only inside it.

What happens to Google Calendar data

Event names appear only in the artist's private Studio. Clients never see them.
Cake does not send event names to logs or analytics and does not use Google Calendar data for advertising.
Cake does not use a cached event name after 60 seconds. Changing selected calendars or disconnecting clears that cache.
The full storage and recovery behavior is documented in Cake's privacy policy.

The artist stays in control

The artist can change which calendars Cake checks or disconnect Google Calendar from Cake Studio. Disconnecting stops access, clears the connection, and makes a best-effort attempt to delete the Cake sessions calendar from Google.