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You know things the platform doesn’t. A provider who’s happy to start early for a regular. A customer a little outside the usual area who’s worth the drive. So when something about a booking looks unusual, you get a warning rather than a locked door — with one exception, covered at the end.

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How warnings behave

Each warning shows up twice, on purpose:
  1. A popup, the first time it happens. You either Keep and continue or Close and go change something.
  2. A banner that stays put next to the section it’s about, as a reminder while you finish the form.
Accepting one warning doesn’t accept the others — each is a separate decision. And if you fix something and then break it again, the popup comes back, because it’s a new decision. If a warning is still unaccepted when you try to save, the popup reappears first.
Where the warning comes from a specific working schedule, any note attached to that schedule is shown in the popup. That’s often where the real answer is — “Fridays are city-only”, or “no early starts in school terms”.

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The warnings

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Heads up — booking outside the usual schedule

Sam doesn’t usually work at this time on this day. You can still save the booking — it just won’t follow their normal schedule.
Or, when they’re rostered but for different work:
Sam doesn’t usually offer Manual driving lesson at this time. You can still save the booking, but it falls outside what their schedule covers.
What it means. The time you’ve picked isn’t covered by that provider’s working schedule, or the schedule that does cover it is set up for other services. When to continue. They’ve agreed to the extra hour. You’re covering for someone. A one-off you’ve already cleared with them. When to stop. Nobody’s told the provider. Check first — an overridden schedule is a booking they may not turn up for.

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Pickup not in the usual area

Sam doesn’t usually cover Brunswick at this time. The booking can still go through if that’s intentional.
What it means. The pickup address falls outside the area that provider covers during the time you’ve chosen. When to continue. They’ve agreed to travel. The customer is meeting them somewhere else. It’s an edge case you know works. When to stop. You picked the address from an autocomplete without checking. The provider has a booking either side and no way to get across town.
Use the suburb search before you start. Type the pickup suburb and the calendar dims everyone who doesn’t cover it, so you pick the right provider first time and never see this warning.

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Tight travel window

Sam has another booking nearby that limits how much they can travel around this time. You can still save the change if the customer’s confirmed it works for them.
What it means. The provider has bookings close enough on either side that getting from one to the next is a squeeze. This is the one that most often turns into a real problem — it’s how days quietly fall apart from mid-morning onwards. What to do about it. The popup suggests the fix: add buffer time before or after in the Time & Provider section. Ten or fifteen minutes here saves an apology later. When to continue. The two addresses are minutes apart. The customer has said they’re flexible about the exact start.

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Couldn’t verify this slot

Couldn’t verify this slot — saving anyway will not be blocked.
Not a warning about the booking — the checks themselves couldn’t run. Go ahead if you’re confident in the booking, and check it afterwards.

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The one that’s serious

A conflict gets its own dialog, styled as a danger rather than a caution:
Conflicts with: Jane Smith — 60 min lesson at 2:00 PM
This means the time you’ve chosen overlaps something already in that provider’s day, or falls outside their working hours entirely. You can still confirm and continue when creating or editing a booking — sometimes you genuinely mean to double-book, or you’re fixing data. But unlike the soft warnings, this one says something is definitely already there.
Two places where a conflict stops you completely:
  • Dragging a booking to a new time on the calendar. The confirm button is disabled while the new slot conflicts, and dragging into a taken slot snaps the booking back.
  • Saving blocked-out time. You can’t create unavailability over an existing booking.
In both cases, move the thing that’s in the way first, or use the edit form instead of dragging.

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