When a date has to be called off. Speed and a concrete alternative.
Message every booking on that date with the reason, before they set off.
Offer the two nearest alternative dates in the same message.
Move anyone who rebooks onto the new date and keep their payment against it.
For anyone who cannot, create the refund and tell me the total.
These are instructions for the assistant, carried out one at a time against your real records. Each one still goes through the same checks as if you had asked for it yourself.
Once you have an account, ask for "Weather cancellation" and it is added as your own recipe. From then on it runs on your records, not on an example.
Run it on every enquiry, whatever channel it came in on.
The money timeline for a dated booking.
The week before. Every question they were going to ask, answered first.
The message that turns a no-show into a rebooking.
Run it when a date is close and under capacity.
Same day or the next morning, while it is still fresh.