diff --git a/app/Jobs/Entity/CreateEntityPdf.php b/app/Jobs/Entity/CreateEntityPdf.php
index 9b9027fef718..5c05c6e35846 100644
--- a/app/Jobs/Entity/CreateEntityPdf.php
+++ b/app/Jobs/Entity/CreateEntityPdf.php
@@ -146,7 +146,7 @@ class CreateEntityPdf implements ShouldQueue
             ->build();
 
         //todo - move this to the client creation stage so we don't keep hitting this unnecessarily
-        Storage::makeDirectory($path, 0775);
+       // Storage::makeDirectory($path, 0775);
 
         $pdf = null;
 
diff --git a/app/PaymentDrivers/BaseDriver.php b/app/PaymentDrivers/BaseDriver.php
index 6730c1ea947d..7e097c704b53 100644
--- a/app/PaymentDrivers/BaseDriver.php
+++ b/app/PaymentDrivers/BaseDriver.php
@@ -33,6 +33,7 @@ use Checkout\Library\Exceptions\CheckoutHttpException;
 use Exception;
 use Illuminate\Http\Request;
 use Illuminate\Support\Carbon;
+use Illuminate\Support\Str;
 
 /**
  * Class BaseDriver.