Title: Automatic booking
Last modified: August 6, 2023

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# Automatic booking

 *  Resolved [antoni2003](https://wordpress.org/support/users/antoni2003/)
 * (@antoni2003)
 * [2 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/automatic-booking/)
 * Hi Support,
 * Is it possible to disable automatic booking/reservation function to avoid overbooking?
   I would like to confirm reservation as a Administrator to avoid overbooking from
   different independent websites which all have automatic booking.
 * Thanks!

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 *  Plugin Author [e4jvikwp](https://wordpress.org/support/users/e4jvikwp/)
 * (@e4jvikwp)
 * [2 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/automatic-booking/#post-16951984)
 * Hi,
 * Thanks for your message. Although a full Channel Manager synchronization next
   to VikBooking is the right way to avoid overbooking, we understand your situation
   may be different.
 * If you are looking to collect the so called request-to-book reservations, then
   all you need to do is to set up VikBooking in a way that all reservations will
   be assigned to a “pending” (stand-by) status for manual approval by an administrator.
 * The status of the bookings is given by the selected payment method. By default,
   the free version of the plugin does not support custom payment methods, and so
   all bookings will be automatically confirmed. With the commercial version of 
   the plugin instead, you can use one offline payment solution pre-installed, like
   the “Bank Transfer”, and give it a name like “Request Approval”. Thanks to the
   fact that this is an offline payment method, no transactions will take place 
   and the status of the reservations will be “stand-by”. This way, the administrator(
   s) will be notified and it will be possible to follow up with the guests, amend
   their reservations, ask them to pay them online by changing payment method, or
   to manually confirm and accept the bookings to update the availability on your
   website.
 * We hope this is helpful!
 * The VikWP Team

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 * Last reply from: [e4jvikwp](https://wordpress.org/support/users/e4jvikwp/)
 * Last activity: [2 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/automatic-booking/#post-16951984)
 * Status: resolved