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What happens when a booking comes in after planning

How new, changed and cancelled bookings join, move or leave a pickup, and what a flagged guest means.

Written by PaxFlow Customer Support

What happens when a booking comes in after planning

Guests keep booking after you've planned the pickup. PaxFlow adds each new booking to its pickup on its own, and places it on a vehicle when the choice is clear.

New bookings

A new booking with a pickup location joins the pickup for its group and date. It is then placed like this:

  • If one vehicle already serves the booking's stop and has room, the booking goes on it.

  • If several vehicles serve the stop, it goes on the guest's own tour bus if that bus has room. Otherwise it goes on the only serving vehicle with room.

  • If the pickup has a single vehicle, the booking goes on it, and the stop is added to the end of its route if it wasn't there.

  • In any other case the booking is flagged for you to decide.

Bookings made shortly before the tour are marked Last minute in the planner.

A new booking placed on the guest's own tour bus, marked last minute.

A new booking on a single-vehicle pickup, with its stop added to the end of the route.

Flagged bookings

A flagged booking is in the pickup but needs a decision, for example because its bus is full or no vehicle serves its stop yet.

A flagged booking in the planner.

When a booking would overfill a vehicle, PaxFlow also records an overbooked-vehicle notification for your team.

To resolve a flag, open the stop and put the booking on a vehicle with room. The flag clears.

The flag cleared after the booking was placed on another vehicle.

Changed and cancelled bookings

  • A cancelled booking leaves the pickup and its vehicle.

  • A booking that moves to another date or tour leaves its old pickup and joins the matching one.

  • A booking whose pickup location changes to a stop its vehicle doesn't serve is taken off the vehicle and flagged.

  • Guests you added by hand, from another group or without a pickup location, are left where you put them.

  • Finished and cancelled pickups don't take new bookings. They keep their guests as a record.

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