There is no feature in the plugin to auto-cancel reservations, so there must’ve been some action (either manually initiated or somehow initiated by a conflict with something else) that triggered the event you mentioned. Also, the most recent version only added in a small filter, so you can manually, in the code, hook into the booking status. This shouldn’t change the behaviour of anything in your admin.
If you’d like, you can download past versions of the plugin here: https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/restaurant-reservations/advanced/ _ Great thank you for access to this. We may roll back if we issue is ongoing
When you say it’s still an issue, do you mean you’re continuously getting bookings that are automatically cancelled, or is that you are still being impacted by the one time this happened?
It happened to 2 bookings on Friday night, we’re we received the email that the booking had been cancelled. We thought the customer must of done it and didn’t think anything of it. Then on Saturday morning at 11.15am We started to received 100’s of cancellation emails. It was all future bookings including the Saturday. And then up until Monday morning every booking that was made then after a little while they would receive a cancellation email. All day yesterday it seemed fine.
If continuous, have you noticed any kind of pattern (e.g. is it all bookings from a specific time, all that have a specific setting, party size, etc.)? It was for all times, part size, booking types. Other than the first 2 early on Friday night, it all happened at once at 11.15am. I had confirmed bookings late on Friday night and they weren’t sent the cancellation email until they were all sent at once at 11.15am on Sat morning
Were these bookings that were set to confirmed or pending?
They were all confirmed bookings
What is the date of these bookings that are getting set to closed? This event happened on Saturday 14 november it it just ran through and each one future booking were set to “Closed” & we received an admin email of the cancelled reservation and so did the client. It looks like they were sent in order of when they were booked. So like there is one guy who pre booked 15 future bookings all at once…. he received his confirmation emails all in a row.
If it’s a continuous thing, how often does it happen? It happened on the one day so far of Saturday 14 november
When do you notice it happening (e.g. same time every day)? No there was no visible pattern
Also, when the status of a booking is changed, you have to manually check for it to send the notification, so, even if bookings were somehow getting automatically closed, it still shouldn’t send the email without that box being checked. No, that how it was initially noticed. The admin (management just started to be bombarded with cancellation emails and so the venue manage contacted me (web manager) we were no where near the booking system when it happened.
Also, do you have the “Allow Cancellations” setting enabled? No, I have this disabled on the front end completely so for cancellation the customer has to contact the venue to cancel
If so, perhaps there’s an issue on the front end of your site where the cancellation is somehow being triggered on the booking form page. Does it make any difference if you disable that setting? N/A as above in in the current config
