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Cancelling Direct bookings

How to cancel a booking and issue refunds.

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Written by Andrew Schorr
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By default, Direct bookings have a non-refundable cancellation policy. You can configure custom policies and associate them to properties using our cancellation policy manager that will let you choose how flexible you would like your policy to be.

Guest cancellations

Guests are able to cancel bookings at any time from the guest portal. Hospitable displays the refundable value of their reservation according to the cancellation policy of the reservation. If the guest chooses to go forward with a cancellation, we require them to first validate either their email or phone number by submitting a one-time code.

Refunding your guest

If you need to cancel a reservation, we will ask you if the cancellation is at the guest's request, or if you, the host, are requiring the cancellation:

  • Guest cancellations - if you cancel at the request of your guest, we will calculate the refund according to the reservation's cancellation policy.

  • Host cancellations - when you cancel and tell us it was at the host's initiative, the guest will receive the exact amount they paid refunded to their payment method.

  • Partial refunds - click the Send or request money button within two weeks of the end of a reservation to refund any portion of the reservation, without altering the dates of the reservation.

When the payout has been sent out, refunds will fail if your account does not have enough balance.

Canceling from the inbox

  1. Open the conversation in your Inbox

  2. Click on the Cancel reservation button

  3. Select whether the cancellation is at the request of the guest or the host (this affects how we calculate the refund amount on the next screen)

  4. If the cancellation was not requested by the guest, Hospitable will return the entire amount the guest paid to their payment method

  5. If the cancellation is at the request of the guest, no amount will be refunded.

  6. Click Continue, review the final details, and click Confirm & cancel


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