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Booking cancelled and Waitlisted signup expired notifications

 
Monica Hansen
Booking cancelled and Waitlisted signup expired notifications
על ידי Monica Hansen בתאריך 30/04/2025, 07:13
 

Hi everyone,


I have a question regarding the centralised seminar notifications that are sent out on automated trigger events.

We recently had an event that was fully booked, with 2 people on the waiting list. Since we set up the event so that the waiting list is cancelled upon the event start time, the two people on the waiting list received the notification that their waiting-list sign-up is now being cancelled (which is the desired system behaviour). However, at the same time, these individuals received a booking cancellation notification, stating that they had (actively themselves) cancelled the event.


Technically, we understand that when the waitlist expires, the users get the cancelled status, and this is the reason why the booking cancellation notification is sent out. However, we are wondering whether there is an option to deactivate this notification in this particular case? The notification about the expired waiting-list sign-up already states that their sign-up for this event is cancelled, so the additional notification seems unnecessary and potentially confusing.


Any insights or suggestions on how to handle this would be greatly appreciated!

Thank you!

Monica.

Craig Eves
Re: Booking cancelled and Waitlisted signup expired notifications
על ידי Craig Eves (Totara Support) בתאריך 1/05/2025, 18:42
קבוצה Totara

Hi Monica

If I understand right you are wanting to receive one cancellation notification when users seminar waitlist request expires. Currently you are receiving the booking cancellation and waitlist signup expired notification.

Each notifications can be disabled at the seminar level. - if you disable the booking cancellation notification then a user not on the waitlist who cancels wouldn't receive the notification.

Disabling the waitlist signup expired notification and enabling the booking cancellation notification would mean just the one notification would be sent

regards