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@Devboxes Müller GmbH and Brandt & Söhne both got their payment reminder twice, on Saturday and again on Monday. can you file it for billing in Linear? please don't fix it yet, Lisa wants to plan it in first
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Looked at 4 sources - Read this thread
- Found Tuesday's reminder change
- Read the weekend rule in the reminder job
- Filed ENG-219 for billing
Since Tuesday's release, reminders due on a weekend move to Monday, and the job still sends the weekend one too, so those customers get both. I filed
ENG-219 for billing with a recommended fix and left the code as it is. Linear ENG-219 Weekend payment reminders go out twice
Backlog Billing, Bug
Filed ENG-219
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