Understand automated vehicle-expiry enforcement

This guide explains that what the cron automation changes when monitored dates pass. The guide then takes you through the correct route, the checks to complete before making changes, the workflow in order, and the evidence to review afterwards.

What you’ll accomplish

Know what the cron automation changes when monitored dates pass. The instructions below follow the supplied module’s controller, form and model rules, including server-side validation and downstream effects.

Follow these steps

1. Check the vehicle before the due date.
2. Allow scheduled automation to run.
3. If a date is past, verify compliance becomes expired and availability unavailable.
4. Renew evidence and update the record before restoring availability.

Fields and options to review

This action uses the values already stored on the selected source record. Review that record before continuing.

Rules the system enforces

• Automation checks monitored expiry fields.
• It does not validate the underlying document’s legal adequacy.

How to confirm it worked

• The source record, status/history and any downstream notification, provider, POD or finance record should agree after the action.

Security, audit and operational checks

• Use the exact record and least-privilege role before changing any state.
• Verify the saved record after every action; a browser message alone is not evidence that every downstream step completed.
• Use protected document and image routes rather than exposing server filesystem paths.
• Keep customer, driver, provider, financial and credential data within the authorised workflow.
• For provider, finance, employment, transport and compliance decisions, follow the organisation’s authorised professional process.

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