[Due for payment 2025-06-12] [Due for payment 2025-06-11] Expense - Approve button shows Approve 0.00 when report only has track expense

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Version Number: 9.1.55-1
Reproducible in staging?: Yes
Reproducible in production?: No
If this was caught during regression testing, add the test name, ID and link from TestRail: Exp
Email or phone of affected tester (no customers): sidjosdsjois@gmail.com
Issue reported by: Applause Internal Team
Device used: Mac 15.4 / Chrome
App Component: Money Requests

Action Performed:

Precondition:

• Account has self DM.

1. Go to staging.new.expensify.com
2. Go to self DM.
3. Track a manual expense.
4. Create a workspace (make sure Delay submissions and Add approval are enabled).
5. Go to workspace chat.
6. Click + > Create report.
7. Click Add expense > Add unreported expense.
8. Select the track expense from Step 3 and click Add to report.
9. Click on the expense preview.
10. Click Submit.

Expected Result:

Approve button should display the expense report total.

Actual Result:

Approve button shows Approve 0.00.

Workaround:

Unknown

Platforms:

• Android: App
• Android: mWeb Chrome
• iOS: App
• iOS: mWeb Safari
• iOS: mWeb Chrome
• Windows: Chrome
• MacOS: Chrome / Safari
• MacOS: Desktop

Screenshots/Videos

Bug6849217_1748911599890.20250603_084358.mp4

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Issue Owner

Current Issue Owner: @lschurr

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Triggered auto assignment to @lschurr (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.

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

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Possible culprit PRs for this issue

• Fix the pending (unheld) approve amount when other expenses are held #62876: This PR fixes the approve amount calculation on the approve button, directly related to the issue where the approve button shows 0.00 instead of the report total.
• fix: actionable whisper is still present after adding track expense to workspace #63070: This PR involves adding tracked expenses to workspace reports and affects the flow of adding unreported tracked expenses to reports, matching the issue reproduction steps.
• fix: track expense disappears after delete offline #62470: This PR deals with track expense behavior and deletion in self DM, which is part of the issue's precondition and flow involving tracked expenses.