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Support: Hi Alex, thanks for reaching out. I see you're writing from the Acme production account. How can I help today? Customer: Hi, since yesterday morning our Atlas CRM integration with Stripe has been dropping invoice records. About 30 percent of new invoices never make it into the CRM. This is blocking our monthly close tomorrow, so I really need this resolved quickly. My finance team is already asking why the numbers do not match Stripe. Support: I understand the urgency. Let me pull up your workspace and check the integration health. Can you confirm the workspace ID and the Stripe account you're connected to? Also, roughly when did you first notice the discrepancy? Customer: Workspace ID is wsp_acme_prod_8841. We're on the Enterprise plan. The Stripe account is acct_1HjKLmn, connected via OAuth about eight months ago. The integration was set up by our former platform engineer, Maria, and has been running without issues until now. I first noticed the missing records this morning when our reconciliation report showed a gap, but the webhook logs suggest the failures started yesterday. Support: Got it. I can see the connection in our gateway. Let me check the event stream. Looking at the webhook event log, I notice a clear pattern. Starting at 06:14 UTC yesterday, Stripe events of type invoice.finalized began returning HTTP 422 from your CRM endpoint. Before that timestamp, they were returning HTTP 200 consistently. There is no elevated latency, just a clean switch from success to validation failure. Did anything change in your Stripe configuration or in your customer defaults around 06:10 to 06:15 UTC yesterday? Customer: Yes, we changed the default currency for new customers from EUR to USD. The deployment went out at 06:10 UTC. We did not think it would affect the CRM because the integration has handled multi-currency invoices before, both in euros and in pounds, and those records were always created successfully. Support: That explains the timing almost perfectly. The CRM's invoice validation is strict about currency formatting. It expects uppercase ISO 4217 codes such as USD, EUR, or GBP. If Stripe is now sending a lowercase code like "usd" inside the invoice object, the validator rejects the payload with a 422 and the record is not written. Can you check a recent failed webhook payload for the exact value of the currency field? Customer: Let me pull one from the Stripe dashboard. Here is a snippet from an event that failed at 09:47 UTC today: "object": "invoice", "id": "in_0NqrStuVw", "currency": "usd", "amount_due": 14900, "customer": "cus_AbcDef123". And here is one from the day before the change: "currency": "EUR". So it is definitely a case issue. Support: Exactly. The root cause is a case mismatch between Stripe's lowercase currency code and the CRM's uppercase validator. This is a known friction point with some billing providers, especially when defaults are changed programmatically. The good news is that it is straightforward to fix on either side. You can configure Stripe to send uppercase codes, add a normalization step in your middleware, or we can relax the validator on our end so it accepts lowercase and normalizes internally. Customer: What's the fastest path? I need the missing invoices in the CRM before our monthly close tomorrow afternoon. We are also supposed to send customer statements next week, and I do not want any invoices to be missing from the CRM when those run. Support: The fastest path is to add a one-line normalization in your middleware that uppercases the currency code before forwarding it to the CRM. That can be deployed today without waiting for our release cycle. The long-term, cleaner fix is for us to make the CRM validator case-insensitive, which I will escalate to our engineering team right now. I will also open an internal ticket to track the schema relaxation so you can follow progress. Customer: We can implement the middleware fix today. But what about the 847 invoices that already failed? Can we replay them so they appear in the CRM with the correct currency? Support: Yes, I can replay the failed Stripe events from our side. The replay window is seventy-two hours, which comfortably covers everything since the issue started at 06:14 UTC yesterday. I count 847 failed invoice.finalized events in that window. Do you want me to replay all of them, or only the ones tied to active subscriptions? Customer: Please replay all 847. Our finance team needs the complete picture for reconciliation, and we would rather clean up everything now than discover missing records later. Can you also give us a CSV of affected invoice IDs with Stripe event IDs, timestamps, failure reasons, and the currency that was sent? Support: Absolutely. I will generate a CSV with invoice_id, stripe_event_id, attempted_at_utc, failure_reason, and currency. I will attach it to this ticket. I will also mark the ticket as high priority because of your close deadline. The CSV should be ready in a couple of minutes and will include all 847 rows. Customer: One thing I still do not understand: why did only 30 percent of invoices fail if we changed the default currency for all new customers? Support: Good question. The 30 percent represents invoices that were created after 06:14 UTC and did not have a subscription-level currency override. Customers with fixed overrides stayed on their original currency, and any invoice finalized before the deployment still used EUR. So it is a clean time-based cohort split, not a random failure pattern. That also makes the replay safe, because the affected set is well-defined and we can target exactly those events. Customer: That makes sense. So going forward, every new invoice without an override will fail until we deploy the normalization or your validator fix lands. Is there any risk that the replay will create duplicates if some of those invoices were later retried manually? Support: Minimal risk. The replay will use the same Stripe event IDs, so Stripe-side deduplication and our CRM idempotency key will prevent duplicates. If any invoice was already manually created in the CRM, the replay for that event will be skipped because the idempotency key exists. I will include the skip count in the status report. Customer: Agreed. I will open a pull request for the middleware change now. Can you confirm the exact field path in the Stripe payload that needs to be normalized? Support: The field is invoice.currency. It should be uppercased before the object is forwarded to the CRM endpoint. If you are using our Node SDK, the mapping happens in mapStripeInvoiceToCrm. A one-line .toUpperCase() on that field will do it. Make sure you do not touch currency codes elsewhere in the payload unless your own downstream systems expect lowercase. If you use a custom integration, normalize right after you receive the webhook from Stripe. Customer: Perfect. What about the replay — do you need us to do anything on our end, or can you trigger it from the gateway? Support: I can trigger it from our gateway. The replay will re-send each event to your CRM endpoint with the same event IDs, so Stripe-side deduplication will not interfere and you will not be double-billed. I will start it now and send you a status link. It usually completes within ninety minutes for this volume, often faster if your endpoint has decent throughput. Customer: Great. And the validator fix — what's the realistic ETA? Support: I am escalating to L2 now. Schema relaxations like this typically ship within two business days. I will add you to the internal ticket so you can track it. Given that the case sensitivity is stricter than necessary and affects multiple customers, I expect it will be prioritized. I will also make sure the change is backwards compatible so EUR and GBP invoices are unaffected. Customer: Thanks. One more thing — can we set up an alert so we catch this kind of integration failure faster next time? Support: Yes. I recommend adding a webhook failure alert in your Stripe dashboard for any event type returning non-2xx responses for more than fifteen minutes. You can also use our integration health dashboard, which surfaces 4xx and 5xx rates by connector in near real time. I can send you the link and a suggested alert threshold once we are done here. Customer: Please do. And can you confirm our monthly close will not be affected once the replay completes? Support: Once the replay completes, all 847 invoices should be present in the CRM. The CSV will let your finance team reconcile any discrepancies. If any individual invoice still fails during replay, I will open a separate follow-up ticket and notify you immediately. Based on the pattern, I do not expect any further failures once the middleware normalization is in place. Customer: Understood. Please proceed with the replay and send me the CSV and the status link. Support: Done. I have initiated the replay, attached the CSV to this ticket, and marked it high priority. You will receive an email update every thirty minutes until completion, and I will personally follow up in two hours. Is there anything else I can help with? Customer: No, that is comprehensive. Thank you for the quick diagnosis and action. Support: You are welcome, Alex. Good luck with the close tomorrow.