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BAD_CUSTOMER_REF ​

HTTP 400 — Bad customer reference

A bill needs customer_ref — the student number, the tenant, the invoice — and it was missing or over 64 characters.

What to do ​

Send the reference the bill is for. It is printed on the slip and echoed on every payment against the bill.

Can I retry? ​

Not unchanged. Something in the request has to change first — retrying as-is gets the same answer.

The body you received ​

json
{
  "error": {
    "code": "BAD_CUSTOMER_REF",
    "doc": "https://docs.pamopay.co/errors/BAD_CUSTOMER_REF",
    "request_id": "req_5f3a9c2b1d4e6f7a8b9c0d1e"
  }
}

Quote request_id when you write to us; it finds the call without anybody grepping by timestamp.

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