How to Sync OurFamilyWizard With Outlook Calendar - OFWSync [ ![OFWSync](https://ofwsync.com/images/ofwsync-logo.svg) ](https://ofwsync.com) [How it works](https://ofwsync.com#how) [Pricing](https://ofwsync.com/pricing) [Blog](https://ofwsync.com/blog) [Help](https://ofwsync.com/support) [Sign in](https://ofwsync.com/login) [Get started](https://ofwsync.com/register) [ All posts](https://ofwsync.com/blog) November 10, 2026 · 9 min read How to Sync OurFamilyWizard With Outlook Calendar ================================================= Put your OurFamilyWizard custody schedule in Outlook, on a personal or work account, so parenting time and handoffs sit next to your meetings and update on their own. The OFWSync team ![An Outlook week view with a With Dana block across Friday and Saturday, next to work meetings and a school pickup, synced from OFW](https://ofwsync.com/images/blog/how-to-sync-ourfamilywizard-with-outlook-calendar/cover.png) > **Quick Summary:** OurFamilyWizard can't send its calendar to Outlook on its own, so your custody schedule ends up in a different app from your meetings. OFWSync reads your OFW calendar and publishes it as a private, read-only subscription feed. On a personal Microsoft account, click **Add to Outlook.com** on your dashboard and then **Import**. On a work or school account, choose **Add calendar → Subscribe from web** in Outlook and paste your feed link. The schedule appears as its own calendar in Outlook on the web, on your computer and on your phone. Outlook checks for changes about every three hours, sometimes longer, and changes are still made in OFW. If your day runs on Outlook, that's where you look before you say yes to anything: a 4 pm meeting, a dinner, a trip. When your custody schedule only lives inside OurFamilyWizard, it isn't there. You accept the Friday call, then remember it's a handoff day. This guide shows how to sync OurFamilyWizard with Outlook Calendar so parenting time and handoffs show up next to your meetings, whether you use Outlook.com or a work or school account. It takes about ten minutes, and you do it once. Table of Contents ----------------- - [Step 1: Why OFW Doesn't Show Up in Outlook on Its Own](#step-1-why-ofw-doesnt-show-up-in-outlook-on-its-own) - [Step 2: Connect OurFamilyWizard to OFWSync](#step-2-connect-ourfamilywizard-to-ofwsync) - [Step 3: Add It to Outlook.com or a Personal Microsoft Account](#step-3-add-it-to-outlookcom-or-a-personal-microsoft-account) - [Step 4: Add It to a Work or School Account](#step-4-add-it-to-a-work-or-school-account) - [Step 5: Make It Work Around Your Workday](#step-5-make-it-work-around-your-workday) - [Troubleshooting: When the Schedule Doesn't Show Up](#troubleshooting-when-the-schedule-doesnt-show-up) - [Frequently Asked Questions](#frequently-asked-questions) - [Conclusion](#conclusion) Step 1: Why OFW Doesn't Show Up in Outlook on Its Own ----------------------------------------------------- OurFamilyWizard keeps its calendar inside OFW. You can see it in the OFW app and on the website, and you can download a one-off file of events, but nothing keeps a copy in Outlook up to date. If you import that file, Outlook copies the events once and never looks again. The first time a weekend gets traded, your Outlook calendar is wrong. What Outlook can do is **subscribe** to a calendar at a web address. A subscribed calendar sits next to your own calendar, and Outlook re-reads it from time to time, adding, moving and removing events to match. OFW doesn't offer that kind of link. OFWSync does: it reads your OFW calendar and publishes it at a private link that Outlook subscribes to. ### Read-only, on purpose A subscribed calendar is read-only in Outlook. You can see every event, but you can't drag a handoff to Thursday and have OFW change. That's deliberate. OFW is the record your co-parent sees, and possibly a judge too, so trades still get proposed and approved in OFW, and the approved version comes through to Outlook on the next sync. Step 2: Connect OurFamilyWizard to OFWSync ------------------------------------------ Create an account at [OFWSync](/register). Then choose **Connect OurFamilyWizard** and sign in with the email and password you use for OFW. We check them with OFW straight away and store them encrypted. OFWSync only reads your calendar. It never sends messages, proposes trades or changes anything in your account. The [security page](/security) explains exactly how the sign-in is used. The first sync starts right away. Your feed link appears on the dashboard once it finishes. We hide the link until then on purpose, so your calendar app doesn't save an empty calendar. Every account starts with a 7-day free trial of the Plus plan, so you can see the schedule in Outlook before you decide anything. Plans are on the [pricing page](/pricing). Step 3: Add It to Outlook.com or a Personal Microsoft Account ------------------------------------------------------------- Use this route if you sign in to Outlook with a personal account, such as an @outlook.com, @hotmail.com or @live.com address. 1. On your OFWSync dashboard, under **Which calendar app do you use?**, choose **Outlook**. 2. Click **Add to Outlook.com**. Outlook opens in a new tab with your feed link and calendar name already filled in. 3. Sign in to your Microsoft account if asked. 4. Click **Import**. The calendar shows up in the left-hand list in Outlook's calendar, and parenting time fills in within a minute or so. Because it's saved to your Microsoft account, not to one computer, it also appears in the Outlook app on your phone and in Outlook on your desktop when they're signed in to the same account. Step 4: Add It to a Work or School Account ------------------------------------------ The **Add to Outlook.com** button only works for personal accounts. If your Outlook belongs to an employer or school (Microsoft 365), add the link by hand. It's the same idea, just one more paste. 1. On your OFWSync dashboard, choose **Outlook** and copy **Your private feed link**. 2. Open your calendar in Outlook on the web or the new Outlook for Windows. 3. In the left-hand pane, choose **Add calendar**, then **Subscribe from web**. 4. Paste the link, give the calendar a name like "Kids' schedule" and pick a color. 5. Click **Import**. ### Classic Outlook for Windows The older desktop Outlook has its own menu for this: **Home → Add Calendar → From Internet**. It works, but Microsoft's own advice is to subscribe from Outlook on the web instead. A subscription added there is kept by Microsoft's servers, checked about every few hours whether your computer is on or not, and still shows up in classic Outlook, under **Other Calendars**. If you can open Outlook in a browser, do it there. ### If "Subscribe from web" isn't there Some organizations turn off calendar subscriptions. If you can't find the option, or Outlook refuses the link, ask your IT team, or add the calendar to a personal Outlook.com account using Step 3 instead. Step 5: Make It Work Around Your Workday ---------------------------------------- Two places control what you see: Outlook, for color and visibility, and OFWSync's **Feed settings**, for what's in the feed. ### In Outlook Right-click the calendar in the left-hand list to rename it or change its color. Pick something you don't use for work, so a "With Dana" weekend stands out in a week of blue meetings. Untick it to hide it for a while without unsubscribing. Outlook shows all-day events in the strip at the top of each day, which is where parenting time sits when you use all-day blocks. ### Your coworkers won't see it, and Outlook won't mark you busy A subscribed calendar is visible only to you unless you share it, and nothing is copied into your main calendar. That privacy cuts both ways. Events in a subscribed calendar don't count toward your free/busy time, so a colleague booking a meeting through the scheduling assistant will see you as free during a 4 pm handoff. If a handoff needs protecting, put a short "Busy" block on your own calendar for it. You don't have to say why. ### In Feed settings - **What to include.** Turn parenting time, handoffs and OFW events on or off. At work, many people keep parenting time and handoffs and drop the rest. - **Show parenting time as.** Choose **All-day blocks** (whole days named for whoever has the children overnight), **Exact times** (blocks that start and end at the exchange time), or **One event per day** (like "Custody: Dana > 2 pm Chris" on an exchange day). Exact times show you at a glance whether an evening meeting clashes with your time. - **Household names.** Rename each household the way you'd say it, like "Mom's" and "Dad's", instead of the names in OFW. - **How far ahead.** Sync 1, 3, 6 or 12 months. Six is a good default; twelve helps when you're booking time off around summer and holidays. - **Timezone.** Set the one your OFW calendar uses, so a 2 pm handoff shows at 2 pm. Many calendar apps ignore reminders in subscribed calendars, so don't count on Outlook to remind you about an OFW event. Set your own reminder on anything you can't miss. ### A calendar for each child On the Plus plan, you can give each child a calendar of their own, with only the OFW events they're on, plus parenting time and handoffs. Subscribe to each one in Outlook and give each child a color, or share one child's calendar with a teenager without showing them everything else. Troubleshooting: When the Schedule Doesn't Show Up -------------------------------------------------- **The calendar is there but empty.** Check your OFWSync dashboard. If the first sync hasn't finished, the feed has nothing in it yet. Wait for it to finish; Outlook fills the calendar in the next time it checks. **A trade from this morning is missing.** Two checks have to happen: we have to see the change in OFW (daily on Lite, hourly on Plus, or right away with **Sync now** on Plus), then Outlook has to fetch the feed again. Microsoft says that happens about every three hours but can take more than a day, and there's no button to make Outlook check sooner. The dashboard shows when we last checked OFW, so you can tell which side is waiting. If you need same-day changes on your phone, Apple Calendar lets you choose how often it checks; our [iPhone guide](/blog/how-to-sync-ourfamilywizard-with-your-iphone-calendar) covers it. **I see the schedule twice.** You probably subscribed in classic Outlook and on the web. Remove the one under the desktop's internet calendars and keep the web subscription. **Everything stopped updating.** Usually your OFW password changed. The dashboard shows a notice; enter the new password and the next sync carries on. If you reset your feed link, every calendar subscribed to the old link stops updating, so subscribe again with the new one. **The times are off by an hour or more.** Open Feed settings and check that the timezone matches the one your OFW calendar uses. Ready to see your custody schedule next to your meetings? [Start your free trial](/register) and subscribe in a couple of minutes. Frequently Asked Questions -------------------------- ### Q1: Does OurFamilyWizard sync with Outlook? Not on its own. OFW has no live calendar feed for Outlook to subscribe to. OFWSync reads your OFW calendar and publishes one. ### Q2: Does it work with a work or school Outlook account? Usually. Choose **Add calendar → Subscribe from web** and paste your feed link. Some organizations turn subscriptions off; if yours has, use a personal Outlook.com account instead. ### Q3: How quickly do changes reach Outlook? It depends on two checks: OFWSync checking OFW (daily on Lite, hourly on Plus) and Outlook fetching the feed, which Microsoft says is roughly every three hours and sometimes longer. ### Q4: Can I edit custody events in Outlook? No. Subscribed calendars are read-only. Make the change in OFW, and it comes through on the next sync. ### Q5: Will it show in the Outlook app on my phone? Yes, when you subscribe through Outlook on the web or the **Add to Outlook.com** button, because the subscription is saved to your account. Sign in to the same account in the Outlook app and it's there. ### Q6: Can my partner or the grandparents see it too? Yes. Send them your feed link and they can subscribe in their own calendar app. Anyone with the link can see the schedule, so share it only with people you trust. Our guide to [sharing a custody calendar](/blog/how-to-share-a-custody-calendar-without-sharing-everything-else) covers how. Conclusion ---------- Syncing OurFamilyWizard with Outlook comes down to one subscription. Connect OFW to OFWSync, then click **Add to Outlook.com** on a personal account, or use **Add calendar → Subscribe from web** on a work account. The schedule appears as its own calendar on the web, your computer and your phone, private to you, and updates as Outlook checks for changes. OFW stays the record you and your co-parent work from; Outlook just shows it where you plan your day. For the short version of the steps, see the [Outlook setup page](/ourfamilywizard-outlook). Your OFW schedule, in the calendar you already check. ----------------------------------------------------- OFWSync keeps Google Calendar, Apple Calendar, Outlook, Skylight or Cozyla in step with OurFamilyWizard. 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