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title: "Same-day bookings despite a PMS lead time"
description: "Your PMS has a same-day booking lead time set, but your website still accepts same-day bookings. **Why this happens.** The lead-time value from your PMS…"
url: "https://homerunner.io/docs/my-pms-has-a-same-day-booking-lead-time-set-but-the-website-still-accepts-same-d/"
updated: "2026-10-26"
category: Booking engine and checkout
---

# Same-day bookings despite a PMS lead time

Your PMS has a same-day booking lead time set, but your website still accepts same-day bookings.

**Why this happens.** The lead-time value from your PMS does sync to your site, but the site does not act on it unless advance-notice enforcement is switched on. That switch is off by default. On most sites, the lead-time value is present but inactive, and same-day bookings stay open right up to check-in.

**If you do not want a cutoff.** You usually have nothing to change. The synced value is not blocking anything.

**If you want the cutoff enforced.** Turn it on in your HomeRunner property settings with **Validate advance booking hour**, rather than changing anything in your PMS.

**Before you change the PMS setting.** The lead-time field in your PMS often governs last-minute bookings on other channels such as Airbnb and Vrbo. Changing it to zero opens last-minute bookings everywhere that field applies, not only on your direct booking site. If your goal is only to change direct-booking behavior, the HomeRunner setting is the safer place to do it.

Still stuck? [Contact the HomeRunner team](https://homerunner.io/contact/) with your site address and what you tried, and we take it from there.