Court dates the firm holds, not one person's calendar
Key dates and appointments live on the matter and sync both ways with Outlook. Edit in either place and the other follows, without a duplicate and without Writford ever deleting your original.
Can legal software sync with my Outlook calendar?
Yes. Writford syncs matter key dates and appointments with Outlook in both directions. A date created in Writford appears in your calendar, an edit made in Outlook comes back, and Writford recognises its own changes so a single edit never becomes two events.
- Does Writford sync with Outlook both ways?
- Yes. A key date created in Writford appears in Outlook, and an edit made in Outlook comes back to Writford. Both directions are live rather than a one-way export.
- Will editing an event twice create a duplicate?
- No. Writford recognises its own changes coming back from Outlook and drops them, so a single edit does not bounce between the two systems creating copies.
- What happens if Microsoft misses a notification?
- Writford also runs a periodic reconciliation against the calendar rather than relying only on push notifications, so a change that a throttled or dropped webhook missed is still picked up.
- Does deleting something in Writford delete it from my Outlook calendar?
- No, and that is deliberate. Writford holds a copy and Microsoft holds the original. Removing a matter or turning sync off ends the link. It never deletes the event from your calendar.
- Are key dates tied to one person's calendar?
- No. Court dates, limitation periods and statutory deadlines belong to the matter, so they survive somebody leaving or changing role. The Outlook sync is a convenience on top, not the record.
The deadline belongs to the file, not to a person
Court dates, limitation periods and statutory deadlines are recorded against the matter they relate to. That is the difference between a deadline the firm holds and a deadline one fee earner holds, and it is the one that matters when somebody is off, leaves, or hands a file over.
- Court dates, limitation periods and statutory deadlines on the matter
- Survives a fee earner leaving or a file being reassigned
- Visible to anyone who can reach the matter
- Appointments recorded alongside the dates they relate to
Edit it in either place and the other follows
A date created in Writford appears in Outlook. An edit made in Outlook comes back. The hard part of two-way sync is not the sending, it is recognising your own change coming back so it does not bounce between the two systems forever. Writford detects its own echo and drops it.
- Outbound: matter key dates pushed to Outlook
- Inbound: edits made in Outlook applied back to the matter
- Our own changes recognised and dropped rather than re-applied
- One edit stays one event, not two
A reliability net that does not depend on notifications
Push notifications get throttled, dropped and delayed. A calendar that only listens for them silently falls behind and nobody notices until a date is wrong. Writford also reconciles against the calendar periodically, so a change that arrived with no notification is still picked up.
- Periodic reconciliation as well as live notifications
- Catches what a throttled or dropped webhook missed
- No silent drift between Writford and Outlook
Writford never deletes anything from your Outlook calendar
A solicitor's calendar is their practice, and it holds far more than matter work. Writford holds a copy and Microsoft holds the original. Removing a matter, binning an appointment or switching sync off ends the link. It does not reach into your calendar and delete the event.
- Deleting in Writford never deletes the Outlook original
- Turning sync off ends the link, nothing more
- Personal appointments in your calendar are never touched
- Enforced in the code, not left to convention