Unexpected Delivery of Custom Plexiglass Plates
A test to diagnose a webshop issue led to an unintended order of expensive custom items.
The company I work at manages a ton of webshop systems (we have our own custom system/framework for it). One of our biggest clients had some mundane error every time a customer wanted to order something > €2000, so I went in to test it out on the live webshop since I could not reproduce the issue locally. And it only happened with orders > €2000, it had something to do with discounts.
The issue was specifically AFTER the payment, and since I had no intention of actually ordering something I changed some values in the database directly to skip the payment and go directly to the thanks page (which is where the issue was).
2 days later we got a massive package with custom cut plexiglass plates worth just over €2000 delivered.
That was fun to explain
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