Step of get Contact by Email from Zoho Books is throwing the same error on multiple automations

[GSG]

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Since Friday last week, a number of our automations which involve "get contact by email" from Zoho Books are throwing a Customer ID error.

In the testing phase, the 'get contact by email' step is working correctly and we use the result of this step for the next step (create a sales order in Zoho Books), using the 'contact ID ' that is returned by the 'get contact by email' step.

However, in the live automation, the correct contact ID is not being brought into the Sales Order. The same incorrect contact ID is being populated into every single sales order (it's always the same one, and it is the first contact alphabetically in Zoho Books 'Aaron Marshall').

To test this issue, we created a brand new automation from scratch, but the same error persists on the get contact by email step and thereafter creation of sales order step. I attach 4 screenshots showing this error. As this has affected all of our automations which involve get contact by email (which is about 30 of them), I don't want to make any changes until I have spoken to you about this error, why it might suddenly have started happening and what is needed to fix it.

All the automations affected were working well for several months until Friday last week. Now they are all failing for the reason stated above.

 

[Preeti Paryani]

Hello @GSG,

The workflow has been set up correctly, and each step is functioning as expected. However, please note that, as indicated in the error message, the step failed because the customer is marked as inactive.

To avoid this issue, we recommend adding a Filter step to check and proceed only if the customer status is active. Please refer to the attached image for more details.

 

[GSG]

I think you misunderstand.

The customer in this case (and all other cases) was not inactive. The issue is that in the live scenario, when the get contact by email step is processed, it always returns the same customer ID (Id number 2130347000001645448 - which is inactive but is the wrong customer ID - i.e this customer ID does not belong to the email address used in the collect Customer information step). We have thousands of customers in our database and so why is this rogue customer ID always returned every single time?

To reiterate, this is not the customer ID that is associated with the email address that was used in this step to collect the customer information. As I mentioned in my original post, this is happening with every single step in all automations involving get contact by email address. The solution you offered is irrelevant for my problem, as in all cases the customer for whom we are collecting data in the step is not inactive.

The issue I am asking you to look into is the "get contact by email address" process is now flawed / corrupted by something. Something changed at the end of last week and this step is no longer working as it is supposed to work . Please can you check the backend for this step as it may be that Zoho Books has updated something in their App which requires Pabbly to adjust / tweak the setup for this step.