Fixed Issues with Production
This morning we had a lot of warnings in the summaries with regards to the Merchant Status Reasons (MSRs). Salesforce exists on string fields, and while they make drop-downs that limit the applicable values, it's still a mess if something goes amiss, and we have unusual string values in fields. Such is the case this morning.
It turns out that our Salesforce team added several new merchant status reasons to the drop-down, and so now we were unable to know where in the sales cycle these merchants were. This is not good because it means that the only thing we can assume is that they are at the beginning, and that's clearly not right for all of them.
The solution was to learn what additions had been made, how they translate into our internal status codes, and put in the mappings so that tomorrow we will not fail. So that's what I had to do this morning.