Customers, Organizers & Admin, all of them can manage cancellations from their respective Bookings pages. Customers can request for booking cancellation and then organizers or admin can proceed further with that cancellation request.
Admin or Organizer can decide whether to provide a refund to the customers and after that, they can update the cancellation status so that the customer can track the cancellation status from their Bookings page.
{primary} Customer can submit cancellation request only before
Pre Cancellation Timedefined inAdmin Panel -> Settings -> Bookingstab.

To submit a cancellation request, customer from their Bookings page-
Pending | Approved | Refunded) when the Organizer or Admin updates cancellation status.Check-In - Yes, customer can't submit a cancellation request.status shows if the booking is Enabled - Valid or Disabled - In-valid.status becomes Disabled and the customer won't be able to
{primary} On new cancellation request and cancellation status update, all related users notified via email.
From the Bookings page, the Organizer can manage and update cancellation requests-
Click on
In the popup, the organizer can update-
No Cancellation | Pending | Approved | RefundedEnabled | DisabledYes | NoAfter refunding the booking amount, update the booking Status to Disabled.
And then the Booking will become In-valid everywhere.
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Admincan do the same things as the Organizer, from theAdmin Panel -> Bookings.
Cancellation Status is only for tracking purposes only, it doesn't have any functionality behind. While the Booking Status plays an important role and has functionality behind, that makes a booking Enabled - Valid or Disabled - In Valid.
Cancellation Status only gives info about the refund progress, like you can let your customers track the cancellation & refund progress in realtime.
After making a refund and updating cancellation status, you must change the Booking Status to Disabled, to disable a booking, or make it invalid. So that the customer cannot enter or access the event.
{primary} On updating
Cancellation StatustoApprovedorRefunded, you must change the Booking Status toDisabledto discontinue booking.