Service Cancellation Penalties Section

NOTE: There are several INI settings specific to Cancellation Penalties. These are not specifically required for message sending and would likely have been set when cancellation policies were being set up.
Cancellation Policy INI

CANCEL_POLICY_DEF_MSG_FORMAT

(Product INI)

The default message format type of a cancellation fee service

BKG_CANCEL_WITH_PENALTY_STATUS

(FIT, Group INI's)

The status assigned to a booking that is cancelled and it has services in it which will attract penalties
CANCEL_POLICY_NOTES (System INI) Specifies the note categories to be displayed on the more info cancellation policy tab.

CANCEL_POLICY_DEF_INVOICE1

(Product INI)

The default Invoice Text Line 1 for products with cancellation policies. Defaults to <SN> (Supplier Name).

CANCEL_POLICY_DEF_INVOICE2

(Product INI)

The default Invoice Text Line 2 for products with cancellation policies. Defaults to Blank but can be any text string - e.g., "Cancellation Fee".

 

Section Tags

As well as the specifics of the product and it's booking detail, any cancellation policy details attached to a product can be output in messages. The Cancellation Policy substitution codes must be between the <<CANCELPENALTIES:START>> and <<CANCELPENALTIES:END>> Section tags, and will only be output provided the CANCELPENALTIES tags are inside the SERVICES tags.

For details of cancellation message substitution codes, see Cancellation Policy Substitution Codes.

 

Section Tags Substitution Codes Data Source
<<CANCELPENALTIES:START>>    
  APPLIESD Cancellation penalty applies after this date
  APPLIEST Cancellation penalty applies inside this time (xx Days or xx Hours)
  CNLAGENT Cancellation penalty agent amount
  CNLAGENTTX Cancellation penalty agent tax amount
  CNLCOST Cancellation penalty cost amount
  CNLCOSTTX Cancellation penalty cost tax amount
  CNLRETAIL Cancellation penalty retail amount
  CNLRETAILTX Cancellation penalty retail tax amount
  FEE Cancellation penalty fee amount
  FEETYPE Type of cancellation penalty - e.g., Fixed, Percentage
  INEFFECT If the cancel penalty is in effect then display 'In effect' otherwise displays blank
  PERIODF Cancellation penalty period from date
  PERIODT Cancellation penalty period to date
<<CANCELPENALTIES:END>>  

 

Example Product Cancellation Policy

 

This product has two Cancellation Policy periods (01 April 2018 - 31 March 2019 and 01 April 2019 - 31 October 2019) and within policy period, there are three rule periods.

When the policy is output in messaging, only the policy whose policy dates apply to the service date are output. All Rule Periods for the policy are output.

 

Example Cancellation Policy Message Template

The cancellation penalties are triggered from the cancellation polity setup, i.e., when the status is set to allow booking cancellation with penalty (INI Setting).

 

Example Cancellation Policy Message Output