There is nothing to install, and you can cut off access whenever you like.
What you will do, in one sentence
You create a password just for Novarim with Apple or Infomaniak, paste it into your dashboard, then choose the calendar Aralys should write to.
Aralys only uses it for your calendar. But with Apple, this password also opens your iCloud email and contacts. To keep them apart, connect an account used only for your restaurant’s calendar, whether you use Apple or Infomaniak. Your real password is never shared with us: you don’t enter it anywhere in Novarim.
The day you want to cut it off, disconnect the calendar in Novarim, then revoke the password with Apple or Infomaniak: access goes with it.
If your calendar is on iCloud (Apple)
1. Open account.apple.com and sign in with your Apple Account.
2. In the left-hand column, go to Sign-In and Security. The page then shows a grid of cards; open the one called App-Specific Passwords.
3. Add a password with the + button, name it Novarim (the name only helps you find it later) and confirm. Apple will ask for your usual password along the way: that’s normal, you enter it with Apple, not with us.
4. Apple then shows the password. Copy it now: once the window is closed, this password isn’t shown again. If you lose it, no harm done: you generate a new one and delete the old one.
Apple requires two-factor authentication to be on for your account before it offers this option. If you can’t see the section, check that first: Apple’s guide to turning it on.
If your calendar is on Infomaniak
Here too, create an app password, from your Infomaniak account: your usual password stays with you. Infomaniak requires one if you have turned on two-factor authentication, which is a good idea.
In Novarim, choose Infomaniak as the provider: the server address fills itself in.
Another calendar?
Novarim speaks CalDAV, the standard for calendars. If yours is somewhere else (a company server, a Swiss host, an industry tool), choose Other and enter the CalDAV address your provider gave you. If in doubt, search for ‘CalDAV’ in its help pages, or send us the name of the service: we’ll reply with the exact address.
One exception: Google Calendar connects differently. Google asks for its own consent: use the Google Calendar button, next to it on the same screen. There is no password to create.
In Novarim
Open your dashboard, then Settings → Calendar, and click CalDAV (iCloud, Infomaniak…). Choose your provider, enter your username (your account’s email address) and paste the password you have just created.
Once connected, Novarim asks you which calendar to write to. It’s the step people forget, and the most useful one: if you keep a separate calendar for the restaurant, choose it. Bookings stay tidy there, and your personal calendar stays untouched.
If you get stuck
‘Credentials rejected’: check that you pasted the app password, not your usual password.
No calendar to choose: the account is right, but no calendar has been created in it yet. Open the Calendar app, create one, then come back.
‘Reconnect needed’: the app password may have been revoked. With Apple, changing or resetting your main password revokes them all. Generate a new one and enter it again in the same place.
Either way, your bookings stay in Novarim, and Aralys keeps taking them. A dropped connection only stops the copy to your calendar; it deletes nothing.