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Troubleshooting guide
A scanned PDF cannot be searched: what text recognition can fix and how to test it
Scanning produces pictures of pages. Text recognition can add a hidden text layer, but quality depends on the scan. Test it with words you know are on known pages rather than trusting a percentage.
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Xero and QuickBooks request keys help a retry, but not for as long as you might think
Compare what Xero's Idempotency-Key and QuickBooks Online's request id protect, for how long, and why a stored order identity and a lookup remain the lasting control.
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Duplicate Xero contacts: choose the identity your sync matches on before cleaning anything
Separate Xero's ContactID, ContactNumber, name and account number, and design a match order that survives a changed email, a same-name pair and an archived contact.
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QuickBooks "Stale Object Error": the version token your update used is out of date
Understand SyncToken, why a sync keeps an old one, and how read-before-write, sparse updates and a written conflict rule remove intermittent update failures.
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A bulk Xero job loses orders when it meets a rate limit: pace it and keep a checkpoint
Read Xero's limits, understand why a 429 or a batch response can silently drop orders, and design pacing, per-item checks and a checkpoint so every order ends created or held.
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One Stripe deposit, many sales: why the bank line matches nothing in the ledger
Explain how an automatic Stripe payout bundles charges, fees and refunds into one net deposit and how a clearing account and a payout-level entry make the bank line match.
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PayPal sales reach the ledger but refunds and fees do not: reconcile three separate records
Treat a PayPal sale, its refunds and its fees as linked but separate records, read amounts from PayPal rather than recomputing them, and hold a refund until its sale exists.
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PayPal webhooks can repeat and arrive late: make the ledger update safe to repeat
Use PayPal's delivery contract to design an event inbox with a unique event id, raw-body verification, held dependent events and a report-based safety net.
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A PayPal report export leaves gaps: 31-day windows, a three-hour delay and a per-request record cap
Plan non-overlapping report windows with a lag, page through every result, deduplicate, and treat a too-large error as a signal to shrink the window, so an export or replay neither misses nor repeats PayPal transactions.
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Which ledger account does this line post to? Replace hard-coded codes with a checked mapping table
Design a category-to-account table keyed by account identifier, validated against the live chart before each run, with no default account and a held list for gaps.
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The same exchange rate means opposite things in Xero and QuickBooks Online: check direction and units
Compare how Xero and QuickBooks Online express rates, why a copied rate inverts the base total, why a default of one is wrong, and how currency minor units cause factor-of-100 errors.
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Expenses import as bills but the receipts are missing or on the wrong bill
Link expense, bill and receipt through one expense id, attach files after the bill exists within Xero's limits, and make a re-import safe, with draft-only creation.
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A scheduled Google Sheets export stops at the same row or shows old numbers: check limits and state
Understand Apps Script run-time and daily trigger limits, trigger ownership, Sheets API quotas and locks, and design a staging swap and status block so failures are visible.
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Reading Xero invoices: paging, itemCount and If-Modified-Since so a report is complete
Use Xero's paging defaults, pagination object and If-Modified-Since header to read every invoice, advance an incremental watermark safely and prove completeness.
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A Xero sync that quietly stopped: refresh tokens, quiet spells and parallel refreshes
Understand Xero's token lifetimes, why an infrequent or parallel integration loses its connection, and what the connection owner must do, so a stopped sync is noticed at the next check.
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Reconciliation drift: six kinds of difference between a payment processor and a ledger
Classify differences as missing, extra, amount, duplicate, timing or currency, match by identifiers rather than totals, and decide what is escalated before a monthly list is trusted.
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Bare domain or www not opening? Check the record at each name before touching the website
The bare domain and the www address are separate DNS names with separate answers. Learn why a CNAME at the bare domain is a trap and how to see what each name returns.
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Too many redirects behind Cloudflare: find which two settings disagree
A redirect loop means two rules each send the visitor where the other forbids. Read Cloudflare's encryption modes and find the pair that disagree before changing anything.
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Padlock missing after switching to HTTPS? Find the http resources still loading
A page served over https that loads some files over http is mixed content. Learn what browsers upgrade or block, how to find the leftover http links, and what actually fixes them.
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Old or wrong page showing behind Cloudflare? Read the cache status before purging
Stale or shared pages behind Cloudflare usually come from a rule or header, not from time. Learn the defaults, read the cache status values and test safely before you purge.
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Uptime alerts that mean something: what to check, from where, and who gets told
A status-only check can pass while your page shows an error. See how uptime checks decide pass or fail, what to add, and how to prove an alert reaches two people.
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Domain expiry and registrar lock: what the status codes mean and what you can still do
ICANN publishes what each domain status means, from the transfer lock to redemption and deletion. Learn which are in your control, which are not, and how to check yours.
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Old DNS records that point at services you no longer use: why to remove them safely
A record that still points at a cancelled service can let someone else claim that name. Learn what dangling DNS is, how to review a zone, and which old-looking records must stay.
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Mail to your domain not arriving? Read the MX records before blaming the mailbox
MX records tell the world where to deliver your mail. Learn how priority works, why the name inside an MX record must not be an alias, and how to compare yours with the provider's.
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