# Possibly cancelled

Source: https://lemon.cy/glossary/possibly-cancelled/  
Publisher: Lemon.cy (Red Tribe Media Ltd, Limassol, Cyprus)  
Updated: 2026-09-10 · Verified against production: 2026-09-10

**Short answer:** The soft flag Lemon puts on a still-confirmed booking that has vanished from a healthy feed. The booking keeps its cleaning job and cleaner while observed absence accrues toward a confirmation window; if the booking reappears, the flag clears silently.

iCal has no cancellation event, so a disappearance is a hypothesis, and "possibly cancelled" is how Lemon holds a hypothesis without acting on it. The badge appears on the host dashboard; nothing is sent to the cleaner. Each further fetch that still lacks the booking adds observed absence — capped at 10 minutes per fetch so outages between fetches do not count — until the window is reached: 24 hours when checkout is more than three days away, 2 hours within three days, never within 24 hours of checkout.

The host can shortcut the wait either way: confirm the cancellation (job cancelled, cleaner told) or "Keep it" (a host hold, re-raised for review after 7 days).

## Related

- [Imminent window](https://lemon.cy/glossary/imminent-window/)
- [Bulk-disappearance guard](https://lemon.cy/glossary/bulk-disappearance-guard/)
- [Host hold](https://lemon.cy/glossary/host-hold/)
- [When should cleaning software cancel a job because a booking vanished from the calendar?](https://lemon.cy/learn/when-should-cleaning-software-auto-cancel-a-job-from-ical/)