A partner's CSV file for contractor payouts, validated as error-free by an importer, resulted in 63 failed payments due to missing leading zeros in routing numbers. This highlights how spreadsheets can silently alter financial data like routing and account numbers, leading to undetectable errors until funds are disbursed. To prevent such issues, files should be imported without type inference, and strict validation rules based on raw input values must be enforced.
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