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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

A 2xx means success to its requester. If you have an error in step 6 out of 13 that breaks the resource action, you shouldn't be returning a success.

You might argue what to return and what kind of information to include in the response (like tracking numbers), but it shouldn't be a 2xx and I don't see how a misleading 200 would be more helpful than a 400 bad request.