Why repeat visits go missing after a disrupted day

Repeat visits disappear after disruption when deferred work loses its next action, is marked complete incorrectly or is duplicated under a new booking. Reconcile the original visit and its repeat state rather than merely moving a date in a private diary.

Explore the wider recurring work inside the crm guides for the steps around this decision.

A recovery list

Visit outcome	Record	Next check
Completed	Actual completion	Correct future repeat
No access	Reason and customer/site	New arrangement and repeat implications
Deferred	Work still open	Capacity and confirmed next action
Cancelled	Actual decision	Whether the recurring service continues

Keep the distinction between the current visit and the recurring service. Cancelling one visit is not necessarily cancelling all future work.

An illustrative missed visit

A crew cannot access a Tuesday site. The office records the reason and agrees a later visit. Before adding a new entry, it checks whether the original is moved and how the next repeat is calculated. This prevents a second bill or a misleading completion record.

JobDiary’s crew code includes handling for pending repeat work and synchronisation, but exact behaviour depends on the supported action and current setup. Test the changed-day sequence rather than assuming every offline or deferred event is already safely reflected on the server.

Finish the exception review

Check visits with no replacement or review date, repeated failed access and payments attached to the wrong entry. Resolve the customer arrangement as well as the calendar.

A shared record makes the issue visible; it does not guarantee that every interrupted service can be completed tomorrow. Keep capacity and the customer’s agreed service in view.

Connect this to the next step

Continue with How to manage regular customers and one-off projects together. If the next issue is elsewhere in the workflow, use How to reschedule work after rain without losing jobs.

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