Calendar Canary Check an ICS file

For WordPress care-plan agencies

Pilot · 5 places · not yet a product

Put three client calendars under watch. See what you’d be told before you decide.

For 30 days we compare each client’s calendar source with their public events listing, confirm any disagreement and explain it in a message you can forward. You judge it on your own clients’ calendars, not a demo.

Apply for a place Nothing to pay during the pilot. Five places.
Riverside Arts · What’s On Example client · sample data
Illustrative · proposed workflow
Calendar source
4 upcoming events
.ics · checked 08:16 and 08:46
Public listing
0 shown
/whats-on/list/ · HTTP 200 on both
Confirmed discrepancy The page loads but lists nothing. Review the site’s import or cache settings.
Illustrative example with sample data: the calendar source has 4 upcoming events, the public listing returns HTTP 200 but shows none on two checks, so the proposed monitor reports a confirmed discrepancy.

The risk

Uptime checks stay green while the events list is empty.

The page returns HTTP 200, so nothing looks wrong. The client finds out when a visitor asks why their concert isn’t listed, and you find out from the client.

The routine

Manual checks don’t scale across a portfolio.

Open each events page, compare it with the calendar, repeat after every plugin update and cache change. It’s easy to skip, and the gap only shows when it matters.

How the pilot runs

Proof on your own calendars first. A price only if it’s worth paying.

Under validation
  1. 01 Send three calendar pairs A public HTTPS ICS feed and the standard List view built from it.
  2. 02 We confirm they’re supported Before anything starts. If one isn’t, swap in another client.
  3. 03 Both sides, twice a day Same 30-day window on each. Quiet calendars stay quiet.
  4. 04 Confirm before alerting A suspected gap is rechecked about 30 minutes later.
  5. 05 One message, with evidence Counts, timestamps and URLs, ready to forward. One more when it clears.
  6. 06 Decide on day 30 Tell us whether it was worth paying for. Nothing is charged.

What reaches your inbox

An email you can forward, not a dashboard you have to check.

Each message names the affected URL, what we observed on both sides and where to look first. When both the source and the page are empty, the calendar is quiet and you aren’t emailed.

The pilot in full

  • Length30 days
  • Who it’s forUK WordPress maintenance or care-plan agencies looking after three or more regularly updated public event calendars
  • You provideThree or more client calendar pairs: a public HTTPS ICS feed with no login, and the standard The Events Calendar List view built from it
  • You seeHealthy, quiet and empty-listing reports, side by side with any monitor you already use
  • We askWhether the explanations are worth forwarding, and how long setup took
  • PriceNothing during the pilot. Afterwards, the proposed price is £19/month for up to 10 calendar pairs. Nothing is for sale yet.

Current status

AvailableFree ICS event checker
RecruitingSource-to-listing checks on approved public URLs, run by us
ProposedSelf-serve app with your own dashboard and alerts
Planned supportWordPress with The Events Calendar, standard List view

If one of your calendars isn’t supported, we’ll say so before the pilot starts, and you can swap in a different client.

Apply for a pilot place

Five places. We’ll reply by email about fit and next steps. No account is created and no payment details are asked for.

Your application

For example The Events Calendar, Modern Events Calendar or Events Manager.
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