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Can I Restore a Cancelled or Deleted Reservation?

What to do if you accidentally cancel or delete a reservation.

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Written by Yury Gorelik

Short answer: no. Cancelling or deleting a reservation in Lodgix is permanent — there is no undo, "un-cancel", or restore button. This article explains what each action actually does, what information remains, and what to do if a reservation was cancelled or deleted by mistake.

What Happens When You Cancel a Reservation

  • The reservation's status becomes Cancelled and its dates are released on the calendar, so they become bookable again.

  • Any cancellation fee, refund, or guest credit you chose during cancellation is recorded on the invoice.

  • The cancelled reservation stays on the guest's profile (in their invoice list) for your accounting history — it is not erased.

  • The status cannot be switched back: editing the reservation or recording a payment will not make it active again.

What Happens When You Delete a Reservation

  • Deleting asks for your system password precisely because it is permanent.

  • The reservation is removed from your reservation lists and cannot be brought back from the interface.

  • If the reservation appears on a published owner statement, Lodgix will not let you delete it at all.

Tip: if you want to keep the record for bookkeeping, cancel instead of deleting. Delete is for reservations that should never have existed (test entries, duplicates).

Cancelled or Deleted by Mistake? Re-create the Reservation

  1. Check the calendar first — cancelling released the dates, so confirm nobody else has booked them.

  2. Open the cancelled reservation on the guest's profile to copy the details (dates, rate, notes).

  3. Create a new reservation for the same guest and dates via Reservations > Create Reservation.

  4. Review the cancelled invoice: if a cancellation fee, refund, or credit was recorded, adjust it so the guest's balance is correct.

Tip: The History tab of the guest control panel will contain a PDF of the invoice as it existed at the time of cancellation.

If the reservation was deleted, it no longer appears on the guest's profile — re-create it from your own records, such as the confirmation email or the channel's reservation details.

Channel Bookings

A cancellation of a channel booking (for example Airbnb) is processed on the channel's side under the channel's own cancellation policy and cannot be reversed from Lodgix. Re-creating the booking in Lodgix does not restore it on the channel — the guest would need to book again on the channel.

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