I need to add booking to my website. I stumbled upon cal.com which seemed great. However I’ve run into 2 issues.

My current options for calendars are Protonmail and cpanel/webmail/roundcube.

cal.com doesn’t really work with either of these. For proton its mostly on proton’s side, their calendars are read-only externally + a bit buggy: https://github.com/calcom/cal.com/issues/5756

Roundcube uses caldav, and cal.com’s support is still in beta with most caldev’s being unsupported: https://github.com/calcom/cal.com/issues/3457

Roundcube got me the farthest but the booking emails just don’t get sent and the calendar event pops up maybe an hour later + there’s 75% the booking just doesn’t work. I was told this was the calendars fault 😂.

SO

Are there any selfhosted calendar implementations that support ics feed, external viewing ,etc etc that I can throw on a standard webserver?

Or are there any better foss booking systems?

I just need to book clients and connect it back to a working calendar that’s not locked to a desktop. I thought this would be a solved problem in 2026…

I’m not trying to pay for yet ANOTHER software on top of business mail, and a webserver.

Thanks.

  • sorghum@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    1 day ago

    Nextcloud does almost everything you want. Be aware though that is is pretty dang fragile. You can export calendars and have both public and private web access for calendars.

    • VanillaWasp@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPEnglish
      2·
      12 hours ago

      pretty dang fragile So tired of fragile software BUT its usually free and responsibility falls on me to contribute or stfu.

      Now shitty paid software? I could rant for days.

      I’m saving nextcloud for when I need to scale and have more hardware.

      • sorghum@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        1·
        3 hours ago

        I bought an old Lenovo hotel front desk computer I was going to turn into a router, but it didn’t have a pcie slot. So after I got the right computer and turning that into my router, I used that wrong computer as my nextcloud host (Debian, docker, AIO Nextcloud). It works well enough for people seeing my availability, family calendar, file server front end, and CardDAV. I don’t think it of be able to handle video/audio calls because of the hardware though.