What you need to know:
Use this feature to keep your customer list up-to-date, and to ensure you comply with EU GDPR rules on data processing.
Customers are flagged in your Customer List three days prior to being deleted - so you have a chance to make a booking for them, if you don't want them to get deleted.
Customer data gets deleted, but customer bookings remain in the calendar - anonymously.
Article Structure:
1. How to Add a Customer Deletion rule
Navigate to Settings, Customers, and click on the edit icon:
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Enable the setting:
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To add your first deletion rule, first select the category you want to base the rule on.
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Here is an explanation of the five categories:
1. Customers with an External Customer ID | You can use this rule if you assign External IDs to your Customer Fields. All customers with an External ID will be impacted. |
2. Customers who Scheduled Online as Guests or via Facebook | Applicable to customers who scheduled their first booking via your Booking Widget, using the “Guest Booking” option, or authenticated using their Facebook account. ![]() (This option is available if you have Guest and/or Facebook activated under Settings → Widget → Customer Authentication.) |
3. Customers with a Tag | One tag can be applied per rule, and you can create unlimited rules. |
4. Customers Manually Added or Imported | Customers manually added to your account, including via the Import App or CSV file upload. |
5. Customers with a TIMIFY Booker Account | Customers who opened a Booker Account via your Booking Widget, and made their first booking using their Account. |
After you select a category, define a length of inactivity:
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We selected one year. That means, if a customer doesn’t attend a booking for a year, OR goes for longer than one year without having a booking scheduled for him/her, they get deleted.
Once you have selected a category and time frame, press save. That's it!
2. How to View Customers Marked for Deletion
Navigate to Customers, Customer List. Select "to be deleted" from the View filter.
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Impacted customers appear here.
ℹ️ The data is refreshed daily at 0700 UTC. Customer names appear 3 days before they are due to be deleted: this gives you time to make bookings for any customers you want to keep in your account.