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Is there a sandbox mode or a way to test out a booking while live?

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A number of guests are canceling bookings 5 - 20 minutes after booking (without pre-payments)

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Sending HTML formatted texts to guest's email address?

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@June & @newhaus.io

Yeah enabling pre-payments at time of booking will definitely solve that issue. In my case I'm waiting for Omise to activate my payment gateway after submitting the documents. And I can not wait to accept deposits only for confirmed bookings.

However I'm still baffled to as why many guests book + immediately cancel right after. I hope it's not some bug on my front desk PMS or some incorrect settings I applied to the booking.com backend, but then the only way to cancel bookings is directly from guests only, so the issue could not have been mine.

I hope it's just the unexplainable habit of guests.

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Ahh that's a very good point. I think I will stick to unformatted texts if possible.

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