Tag: cooling off

Consent Sequencing: Why Booking Flow Order Matters

Vikas Thakur / Sep 4, 2026 / 12 min read

AHPRA's guidelines do not lay out one single booking sequence. Five separate obligations, on age, consultation, informed consent, cooling off and payment, each fix what has to happen before what, and a flow that gets any one out of order breaks the substance of the rule it serves.

Building a Booking Flow for the 7-Day Under-18 Cooling-Off

Vikas Thakur / Aug 12, 2026 / 8 min read

AHPRA's guidelines, in effect from 2 September 2025, introduced a mandatory seven-day cooling off period for people under 18 having non-surgical cosmetic procedures. Most booking systems cannot express that rule at all. Here is what the flow has to do.