[Due for payment 2025-04-17] IOU - After moving IOU the status in expense details is inconsistent on the Admin side

[izarutskaya]

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Version Number: v9.1.19-5
Reproducible in staging?: Yes
Reproducible in production?: No
If this was caught on HybridApp, is this reproducible on New Expensify Standalone?: Yes, reproducible on both
If this was caught during regression testing, add the test name, ID and link from TestRail: #58078
Email or phone of affected tester (no customers): N/A
Issue reported by: Applause Internal Team
Device used: Pixel 7 Pro /Android 15
App Component: Money Requests

Action Performed:

Pre-requisite: A workspace with an admin and an employee
The workflow setting: enables Approvals, Delay Submissions is set to Manual, and enables Payment.

1. [Employee] Request money (IOU) from admin - DM
2. [Employee] Open the IOU report, copy the URL, add /change-workspace to the end of it, and send it as a message to the report
3. [Employee] Click the URL to open the Change Workspace RHP
4. Move the IOU report to the workspace the employee is a member of

Expected Result:

Verify that the IOU report was converted to an Expense report
Verify that the report preview was removed from the DM and added to the user's workspace chat

Actual Result:

The expense detail on the employee status: "waiting for Admin approve expense", but in the Admin shows the "Pay with expensify" button, and below still has "waiting for You approve expense"

Workaround:

Unknown

Platforms:

• Android: Standalone
• Android: HybridApp
• Android: mWeb Chrome
• iOS: Standalone
• iOS: HybridApp
• iOS: mWeb Safari
• MacOS: Chrome / Safari
• MacOS: Desktop

Screenshots/Videos

Bug6783919_1743070001902.PR58078.mp4

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Issue Owner

Current Issue Owner: @adelekennedy

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Triggered auto assignment to @adelekennedy (Bug), see https://stackoverflow.com/c/expensify/questions/14418 for more details. Please add this bug to a GH project, as outlined in the SO.

[melvin-bot]

Triggered auto assignment to @Gonals (DeployBlockerCash), see https://stackoverflowteams.com/c/expensify/questions/9980/ for more details.

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[izarutskaya]

Production

bandicam.2025-03-27.12-47-42-012.mp4