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Google Workspace for admins

This page is for the Google Workspace administrator of a company that uses Quanty. Once you allow Quanty in your Google Admin console, everyone in your company can connect their own Gmail mailbox and Google Calendar with a single click.

It is also for the admins of your Quanty organization: they can pick people from your company's Google Workspace directory and invite them to Quanty (see Invite your team from Google Workspace).

How it works

  • Each employee connects their own account. Quanty uses Google's standard sign-in and consent (OAuth). Every person signs in and agrees once, for their own mailbox or calendar.
  • No domain-wide delegation. Quanty never asks for access to every mailbox or calendar in your domain, and no service account of Quanty can reach your users' data.
  • Private by default. A connected mailbox is private to the person who connected it until they share it with their Quanty workspace. A Google Calendar connection is always private: nobody else in Quanty, admins included, sees that person's Google events, and colleagues see only busy time.
  • Admins can invite the team. An admin of your Quanty organization can connect their own Google account to see your directory and pick whom to invite. Quanty sends the usual Quanty invitations and does not store the directory.
  • What you decide is whether your users may connect Quanty at all, and which Google data it may reach.

What Quanty asks Google for

AccessGoogle scopeWhat Quanty does with it
Read Gmailgmail.readonlyReads new incoming e-mails for the automations a person switches on. Never older mail.
Send Gmailgmail.sendSends the e-mails a person's automations compose, from their own address. Cannot delete or change mail.
Google Calendarcalendar.events.ownedShows the person's primary calendar in their own Quanty calendar, and writes their Quanty meetings into it, without guests and without e-mails from Google.
Google Workspace directoryadmin.directory.user.readonlyOnly for admins of the Quanty organization who invite people: shows the names, e-mail addresses and organizational units of people in your directory while the admin picks whom to invite. Changes nothing in your Google Workspace.
The accountopenid, emailTells Quanty which Google account was connected.

Google classes gmail.readonly as a restricted scope and gmail.send, calendar.events.owned and admin.directory.user.readonly as sensitive. Gmail, Google Calendar and the Google Workspace import are separate connections, and on Google's screen a person can untick reading or sending.

Quanty's OAuth client ID

Search for Quanty in the Admin console with this client ID:

501789877586-t1mngsq9fkb1qc34c07c8gmjjp67k8mp.apps.googleusercontent.com

Mark Quanty as trusted

  1. Sign in to the Google Admin console (admin.google.com) with an administrator account that can manage security settings.
  2. Go to Security > Access and data control > API controls.
  3. Under App access control, click Manage Third-Party App Access.
  4. Click Configure new app.
  5. Search for the client ID above, and select Quanty in the results.
  6. Choose who it applies to: everyone in your organization, or only some organizational units.
  7. Choose the access: Trusted, or Specific Google data with Gmail and Calendar selected.
  8. Review your choices and click Finish.

Marking Quanty Trusted also pre-approves the Google Workspace import for the admins of your Quanty organization. If they will invite people from your directory, choose Trusted in step 7.

The change can take a while to reach every user. Google's own steps, which follow its current screens: Control which third-party & internal apps access Google Workspace data.

Menu names

The menu names above are those of an Admin console in English. Google moves and renames them from time to time; when they differ, follow Google's article linked above.

After that: each employee clicks Connect once

  • Gmail: on Integrations, Connect Gmail (see Gmail).
  • Google Calendar: in the Calendar, Settings > Google Calendar > Connect, or the Google Calendar card on Integrations (see Google Calendar). It needs the Calendar add-on.
  • Before Google opens, Quanty shows a short notice of what it will and will never do, and goes on only when the person clicks Continue to Google.
  • Members and admins of the Quanty organization can connect; viewers cannot.

If your domain blocks third-party apps that are not configured, an employee who clicks Connect before you have trusted Quanty stops on a Google page saying that their administrator has to allow the app, and nothing is connected. Once Quanty is trusted, they connect again.

Invite your team from Google Workspace

This part is for the admins of your Quanty organization. If your company uses Google Workspace, you do not have to type every address: pick people from your company's Google Workspace directory, and Quanty sends them the usual Quanty invitations.

  1. In the organization settings, open Members and click Import from Google Workspace.
  2. The first time, click Connect Google Workspace. Quanty shows a short notice first: it will see the names, e-mail addresses and organizational units of the people in your company's Google Workspace directory, only so you can choose whom to invite to Quanty. It never changes anything in your Google Workspace, contacts nobody until you click Send invitations, and does not store the directory. Click Continue to Google.
  3. Sign in with your company Google account and allow access.
  4. Back in Quanty, search by name or e-mail address and tick the people you want to invite.
  5. Under Invite as, choose Member or Viewer.
  6. Click Send invitations. Quanty then shows who was invited and who was skipped, with the reason.

Quanty keeps the connection, so the next time you go straight to the list. The Google Workspace card on Integrations opens the same import.

Before you invite

  • Seats. Every invitation takes a seat of your plan, just as with Invite by email (see Seats). If the people you ticked need more seats than are free, no invitation is sent and Quanty tells you the limit: untick some people, remove a member, or change the plan.
  • Already here. People who are already members of your organization, or already invited, are marked in the list and are not invited again.
  • Your company's domains only. Only addresses on your company's Google Workspace domains can be invited this way. Invite anyone else with Invite by email.
  • Not a Google Workspace admin? You can still import. You then see the people your company makes visible in its Google directory, which may not be everyone.
  • A personal @gmail.com account has no company directory, so there is nothing to import: Quanty connects nothing. Sign in with your company account instead.
  • Roles. Here you choose Member or Viewer. To make someone an admin, change their role after they join (see Change a role).
  • Joining. These are the usual Quanty invitations: the same e-mail, valid for 7 days, with Resend and Cancel under Organization Invitations. People join by signing up or signing in with the invited address, for example with Continue with Google (see Getting started).

What Quanty reads and keeps

  • Quanty reads the directory (names, e-mail addresses and organizational units) only while you are choosing, to show you the list.
  • From the directory, Quanty stores only the invitations you send (e-mail address and role), and your company's domain names to check that invited addresses belong to them. The directory itself is not stored.
  • The connection is yours: other admins of your Quanty organization connect their own, and members and viewers cannot use it.
  • This Google data is used for nothing else, under Google's Limited Use requirements (section 9 of the Privacy policy).

Disconnect

  • On the Members tab, open Import from Google Workspace, click Disconnect and confirm. Quanty stops reading your company directory; invitations you already sent stay valid, and your Gmail and Google Calendar connections keep working.
  • Or remove Quanty at myaccount.google.com/permissions. That stops every Quanty connection of that Google account: Gmail, Google Calendar and the Google Workspace import.
  • When you leave the organization or are removed from it, the connection ends.

Take access away

  • For everyone. Set Quanty to Blocked in API controls, or remove it from the list. Google then stops Quanty from reaching your users' Gmail, Google Calendar and your directory: in Quanty their mailboxes show Needs reconnect, their Google Calendar asks to reconnect, and the Google Workspace import stops.
  • For one person. They remove the connection in Quanty (see Gmail, Google Calendar and the Google Workspace import), or remove Quanty at myaccount.google.com/permissions.
  • When someone leaves your Quanty organization, their private mailboxes, their Google Calendar connection and their Google Workspace import end (see Remove a member, or leave).

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