Reschedule Limits not respected

Hi team,

We’ve configured our booking settings to prevent clients from cancelling or rescheduling within 72 hours of their appointment. Instead, they are directed to contact us, and we apply a cancellation fee as part of our policy. This works well in most cases.

However, we recently had a situation where a client made a booking less than 72 hours before the appointment time(within the restricted window), and they were still able to self-reschedule later that same day. This appears to bypass the restriction we’ve set.

Our understanding was that the 72-hour window applies regardless of when the booking is made but in practice, it seems that if the initial booking is made within that 72-hour window, the system does not apply the cancellation/rescheduling block.

Is this expected behaviour? And if so, is there any way to enforce our 72-hour restriction regardless of when the booking is made?

We’d appreciate any clarification or suggestions on how to ensure all bookings within the 72-hour window are locked from self-management.

Thanks in advance,

Aaron