--- name: "calendar_cancel" area: "calendar" title: "Cancel a meeting" price: "$0.01" method: "POST" url: "https://api.conecto.chat/v1/tools/calendar_cancel" mcp_server: "https://api.conecto.chat/mcp/calendar" auth: "Authorization: Bearer " docs_url: "https://conecto.chat/tools/calendar/calendar_cancel" --- # Cancel a meeting (`calendar_cancel`) Cancels a booking and tells the attendee by email, unless notify is false. Cancel a booking. The attendee, the guests and the hosts are told by email (unless notify is false). Price: $0.01 a call. A call that fails costs nothing. ## Use it when A meeting will not happen: the attendee or the business called it off. ## Say this to your agent > Cancel the 4 pm fitting on Saturday. The customer called in sick and will book again. ## Inputs | Name | Type | Required | Description | Allowed values | Default | |---|---|---|---|---|---| | `booking` | string | yes | | | | | `reason` | string | no | Up to 300 characters. | | | | `notify` | boolean | no | | | `true` | ## Example Written for Halverson Cycle & Repair, a bike shop with a repair workshop in Portland, Oregon. MCP: call `calendar_cancel` on the MCP server `https://api.conecto.chat/mcp/calendar` with these arguments: ```json { "booking": "K7QM2XWD4P", "reason": "The customer is ill and will book again." } ``` REST: ```bash curl https://api.conecto.chat/v1/tools/calendar_cancel \ -H "Authorization: Bearer $CONECTO_KEY" \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ -d '{"booking": "K7QM2XWD4P", "reason": "The customer is ill and will book again."}' ``` ## Response ```json { "call_id": "5f0c8a2e-3b7d-4c1e-9a64-2d8e1f7b0c93", "tool": "calendar_cancel", "status": "succeeded", "replayed": false, "cost_usd": "$0.01", "balance_usd": "$19.75", "result": { "booking": { "booking_id": "6c8e5e92-fea1-453f-a131-ef13daf8fcc0", "reference": "K7QM2XWD4P", "status": "cancelled", "meeting_type": "bike-fitting", "title": "Bike fitting", "start": "2026-10-24T18:30:00+00:00", "end": "2026-10-24T19:15:00+00:00", "attendee_local_time": "Saturday, October 24, 2026 at 11:30 (America/Los Angeles)", "attendee": { "name": "Rachel Kim", "email": "rachel.kim@example.com", "phone": null, "timezone": "America/Los_Angeles" }, "hosts": [], "guests": [], "answers": {}, "location": "Halverson Cycle & Repair, 1830 SE Ash St, Portland, OR 97214", "booked_via": "bot", "manage_url": "https://cncto.co/booking/6c8e5e92-fea1-453f-a131-ef13daf8fcc0?t=IjZjOGU1ZTkyLWZlYTEtNDUzZi1hMTMxLWVmMTNkYWY4ZmNjMCI:1xJYro:K10VWykeDZeORhMsbmZIsUVb-021CH9HpWrt5bY4Wr0", "confirmation_call": null, "cancel_reason": "The customer is ill and will book again." } } } ``` `result`: The cancelled booking with its reason. ## Errors | Code | Status | When | Fix | |---|---|---|---| | `not_found` | 404 | No booking has that reference or booking_id. | Find the booking with calendar_list_bookings and pass its reference. | | `sending_paused` | 403 | Email from the business is paused, so the attendee cannot be emailed. | Call again with notify: false, and ask the owner to contact Conecto about the pause. | | `suppressed` | 422 | The attendee's address bounced, complained or unsubscribed before. | Call again with notify: false, or use another address for them. | The refusals every tool can give (401 key, 402 balance, 429 limits) are on the errors page: https://conecto.chat/docs/errors.md ## Related - [calendar_setup](https://conecto.chat/tools/calendar/calendar_setup.md): Sets the business's calendar or a person's own: name, booking address, time zone, weekly hours, closed days, reminder emails and confirmation calls. $0.001 a call. - [calendar_get_setup](https://conecto.chat/tools/calendar/calendar_get_setup.md): The calendar's settings, booking page, iCal link, connected Google calendar, meeting types, and its people's own calendars. Free up to 1,000,000 reads a month. - [calendar_connect](https://conecto.chat/tools/calendar/calendar_connect.md): A link that opens a page naming the business, where the owner, or a person for their own page, connects Google Calendar in one click. Free up to 1,000,000 reads a month. - [calendar_save_meeting_type](https://conecto.chat/tools/calendar/calendar_save_meeting_type.md): Creates or changes a kind of meeting people can book, on the business's calendar or a person's, taken by one host, a round robin or everyone. $0.001 a call. - [calendar_list_meeting_types](https://conecto.chat/tools/calendar/calendar_list_meeting_types.md): Every meeting type people can book, the business's and each person's own, with its hosts and booking page. Free up to 1,000,000 reads a month. - [calendar_find_times](https://conecto.chat/tools/calendar/calendar_find_times.md): Free start times for a meeting type between two dates, in the time zone you ask for. Free up to 1,000,000 reads a month. - [calendar_book](https://conecto.chat/tools/calendar/calendar_book.md): Books a free time for someone, who gets a confirmation email with an invite and a link to change it. $0.01 a call. - [calendar_list_bookings](https://conecto.chat/tools/calendar/calendar_list_bookings.md): Bookings between two times (from now on by default), soonest first, with each one's hosts, guests and confirmation call. Free up to 1,000,000 reads a month. - [calendar_move](https://conecto.chat/tools/calendar/calendar_move.md): Moves a booking to another free time and sends the attendee an updated invite. $0.01 a call. - [calendar_save_routing_form](https://conecto.chat/tools/calendar/calendar_save_routing_form.md): Creates or changes a routing form that asks visitors a few questions and sends each to the right meeting type, host, site or message. $0.001 a call. - [calendar_list_routing_forms](https://conecto.chat/tools/calendar/calendar_list_routing_forms.md): The routing forms with their addresses, questions, routes and how many people answered each. Free up to 1,000,000 reads a month. - [calendar_list_routing_responses](https://conecto.chat/tools/calendar/calendar_list_routing_responses.md): What people answered on the routing forms, newest first, where each was sent, and the booking it led to. Free up to 1,000,000 reads a month.