scheduled blind drop

That was my spy themed title. Like it? The feature I am working on is

a daily file drop to dropbox at a given store (Its the daily income) is uploaded to our accounting software

I wrote a script to grab the file and upload it to our account software.

public function handle() {

   // (because the local software is stupid and makes the user name the file. 
   //  So we dont want to depend on a specific name)
    if (! $this->path = $this->getFileName()) {
		// will be dynamic of course... 
        Mail::to('[email protected]')->bcc('[email protected]') 
            ->send(new StoresDailyReportIssue($this->store, 'NotInDropbox'));

        return -1;
    }

    if (! $this->getAndConfirmItsTheCorrectReport()) {
        Mail::to('[email protected]')->bcc('[email protected]')
            ->send(new StoresDailyReportIssue($this->store, 'WrongReport', $this->reportName));

        return -1;
    }

    $this
        ->getWaveRelatedAccounts()
        ->prepareAndSendToWave()
        ->moveAndRenameFile();

    // return you're a stud!
}

At this point I was feeling pretty clever. Happy path and all. GREEN baby. Then I started to reconsider edge cases.

• wrong file is dropped.
• no file is dropped, so we notify them... but each store has different open days
• no file was dropped before... so now they drop two
• ...

Have you built something similar?

I had originally thought to run this on a schedule, daily at night. Now it seems it should process all files in the box and know the stores open days, and not notify if there aren't files.

So... maybe instead I use separate log to track that the days are uploaded, and a separate notifications script to check the log to confirm files were processed then notify store managers accordingly.

Thoughts, Critiques, Insights?