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title: How to create a calendar?
description: "## 1. Select calendar category Navigate to the calendar module. Three different [calendar categories](https://staging.churchtools.academy/en/help/churchtools-modules/create-administer-calendars/what-calendar-categories-are-there/) are available there. ## 2. Create calendar Click on the ***\"+\" symbol next to the category***in which you want to create a calendar. [![Calendar - Create…"
url: "https://staging.churchtools.academy/en/help/churchtools-modules/create-administer-calendars/how-to-create-a-calendar/"
updated: "2025-12-05"
category: Calendar / Create/Administer Calendars
---

# How to create a calendar?

## 1. Select calendar category

Navigate to the calendar module. Three different [calendar categories](https://staging.churchtools.academy/en/help/churchtools-modules/create-administer-calendars/what-calendar-categories-are-there/) are available there.

## 2. Create calendar

Click on the ***"+" symbol next to the category***in which you want to create a calendar.

[![Calendar - Create calendar](https://staging.churchtools.academy/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/Calendar_Create-calendar.png)](https://staging.churchtools.academy/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/Calendar_Create-calendar.png)

## 3. Enter and save information

The information fields vary slightly depending on the category in which you create a new calendar.

### Congegration calendar

You can choose whether the calendar should be a ***campus*** and an ***event template*** which will be used when you create a new appointment in this calendar to automatically create an associated event.

**Tip**

For congegration calendars you can go to ***"iCal source"*** to insert the iCal link to an external calendar. You can find details on this in our [calendar import instructions](https://staging.churchtools.academy/en/help/churchtools-modules/create-administer-calendars/13-how-to-import-an-external-calendar-into-churchtools/).

[![Calendar - Create new Church Calendar](https://staging.churchtools.academy/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/Calendar_Create-new-Church-Calendar-545x1024.png)](https://staging.churchtools.academy/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/Calendar_Create-new-Church-Calendar.png)

### Group calendar

You can select a ***group*** to which the calendar will be linked and determine whether the group participants have ***write permissions*** for this calendar. As with the congegration calendars, you can also set a ***campus*** and select an ***event template*** and store an event template.

[![Calendar - Create new Group calendar](https://staging.churchtools.academy/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/Calendar_Create-new-Group-calendar.png)](https://staging.churchtools.academy/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/Calendar_Create-new-Group-calendar.png)

**Note**

You can grant the members of the group linked to the calendar permission to enter appointments in the calendar by ticking the box for ***Group members receive write access*** checkbox.

### Personal calendar

**Tip**

For personal calendars, you can go to ***"iCal source"*** to insert the iCal link to an external calendar. You can find details on this in our [instructions on calendar import](https://staging.churchtools.academy/en/help/churchtools-modules/create-administer-calendars/13-how-to-import-an-external-calendar-into-churchtools/).

[![Calendar - Create new Personal calendar](https://staging.churchtools.academy/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/Calendar_Create-new-Personal-calendar.png)](https://staging.churchtools.academy/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/Calendar_Create-new-Personal-calendar.png)

### Select sorting

Via the option ***Sort Order*** you can arrange calendars manually. Sorting is done in ascending order from 0 and alphabetically. This means that all entries are first sorted in ascending order according to their sort number. Entries with the same number are then sorted alphabetically one below the other.