With Appointedd, you can choose how and when you want customers to make bookings with you and how and when you want your customers to cancel their bookings with you.
Your booking policies allow you to control how much notice you require for a booking, how much notice you require for a cancellation and how far in advance someone can book with you. Find out more about booking policies here.
How can a customer cancel a booking?
A customer can cancel a booking in one place:
1. The booking confirmation email. Whether the customer makes the booking online or you make the booking internally, the customer can cancel their upcoming booking from the booking confirmation email.
To cancel a booking, the timing must satisfy the cancelation notice period requirements set out in your booking policies.
How to ensure customers can cancel their bookings
By default, your settings allow customers to cancel their bookings. If you do want customers to be able to cancel their bookings online, you should ensure that the following settings allow it:
1. Cancel bookings from the confirmation email
Hover over the Booking tools tab and click Customize your booking flow
Find Allow customers to cancel bookings from confirmation emails
Flip the slider to ON
How to ensure customers cannot cancel their bookings
If you do not want customers to cancel their bookings online, you should ensure that the following settings disallow it:
1. Cancel bookings from the confirmation email
Hover over the Booking tools tab and click Customize your booking flow
Find Allow customers to cancel bookings from confirmation emails
Flip the slider to OFF
Top tip: encourage customers to make another booking by editing the text of the cancelation email to include links to your booking tools. To edit the email which is sent when a booking is canceled:
Hover over the Email & SMS tab and click Manage email confirmations
Find Send customers an email when a booking is cancelled
Ensure this is turned ON
Click edit text
By default, we include a link to your Booking Page. You can edit the link to direct to your chosen web page by clicking the chain-link icon or edit the text as you wish.
How to issue a refund for a canceled booking
When a booking is canceled by your business or by the customer, we leave the control with you to issue any refund. You can make a full or partial refund for any payment in your Stripe dashboard.
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