Owner operations

decline_booking

OWNER ONLY. Decline a booking awaiting business approval before its deadline. Requires business ownership and an idempotencyKey. Notifies the customer through the existing booking workflow.

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Scope & access

Directory + businessWrites dataChanges existing stateOwner session required

Requires a valid owner session and ownership of businessId. Customer booking tokens do not authorize this operation.

This tool advertises idempotent behavior. If an idempotencyKey is specified, reuse it with identical arguments only when retrying that same intended action.

Parameters

These are the directory endpoint parameters. Business endpoints scope public discovery to the published business; owner calls still require businessId. Inspect tools/list on your endpoint for the exact schema.

businessIdRequired

string

Published business ID from search_businesses, or the business's booking-page slug (e.g. "studio-nine"); owner calls may also use the business ID shown in the dashboard.

bookingIdRequired

string

Parent booking ID from create_hold (holdId), confirm_booking, or list_bookings. Never pass a child allocation ID.

idempotencyKeyRequired

string

Generate a UUID per intended mutation. Reuse the same key and identical parameters only when retrying that action.

Example call

Pass this object to the MCP client's callTool method. Replace placeholders with returned IDs, saved credentials and the customer's details; use future dates appropriate to their request.

decline_booking · MCP client arguments

json

{
  "name": "decline_booking",
  "arguments": {
    "businessId": "<businessId>",
    "bookingId": "<bookingId>",
    "idempotencyKey": "<new-UUID-for-this-action>"
  }
}

JSON schemas

Nested fields, formats, enums and constraints are included in the complete schemas. Successful data is returned in structuredContent. SDK input validation and domain errors use different error shapes.

Input schemaJSON Schema

Input JSON Schema

json

{
  "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {
    "businessId": {
      "type": "string",
      "minLength": 1,
      "description": "Published business ID from search_businesses, or the business's booking-page slug (e.g. \"studio-nine\"); owner calls may also use the business ID shown in the dashboard."
    },
    "bookingId": {
      "type": "string",
      "minLength": 1,
      "description": "Parent booking ID from create_hold (holdId), confirm_booking, or list_bookings. Never pass a child allocation ID."
    },
    "idempotencyKey": {
      "type": "string",
      "minLength": 8,
      "maxLength": 200,
      "description": "Generate a UUID per intended mutation. Reuse the same key and identical parameters only when retrying that action."
    }
  },
  "required": [
    "businessId",
    "bookingId",
    "idempotencyKey"
  ]
}

Output schemaJSON Schema

Output JSON Schema

json

{
  "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {
    "bookingId": {
      "type": "string"
    },
    "status": {
      "type": "string",
      "enum": [
        "held",
        "pending_verification",
        "pending_payment",
        "pending_approval",
        "confirmed",
        "cancelled",
        "expired",
        "no_show",
        "completed"
      ]
    }
  },
  "required": [
    "bookingId",
    "status"
  ],
  "additionalProperties": false
}

Behavior annotationsMCP

Tool annotations

json

{
  "readOnlyHint": false,
  "destructiveHint": true,
  "idempotentHint": true,
  "openWorldHint": true
}

Errors & next steps

Check isError before reading a success response. Follow nextStep where supplied, and never treat a pending booking as confirmed. See Errors and retries and the booking lifecycle for recovery paths.

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