[Due for payment 2026-01-07] [Due for payment 2026-01-06] Expense - Report section shows "IOU" as IOU report name when merging expenses

[jponikarchuk]

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Version Number: 9.2.88-2
Reproducible in staging?: Yes
Reproducible in production?: No
If this was caught during regression testing, add the test name, ID and link from BrowserStack: #78233
Email or phone of affected tester (no customers): jnsdoijnsdoijsnodijs@gmail.com
Issue reported by: Applause Internal Team
Bug source: Exploratory - Significant User Experience Deterioration
Device used: Mac 26.1 / Chrome
App Component: Money Requests

Action Performed:

1. Go to staging.new.expensify.com
2. Open 1:1 DM with any user.
3. Submit an expense to the user.
4. Go to workspace chat.
5. Create an expense.
6. Open the expense report.
7. Click More > Merge.
8. Select IOU expense > Continue.

Expected Result:

Report section will show "x owes y" as IOU report name.

Actual Result:

Report section shows "IOU" as IOU report name.

Workaround:

Unknown

Platforms:

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

Screenshots/Videos

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Issue Owner

Current Issue Owner: @stephanieelliott

[melvin-bot]

You have been assigned to this deploy blocker because you recently merged this PR: #78233

[melvin-bot]

💬 A slack conversation has been started in #expensify-open-source

[melvin-bot]

Triggered auto assignment to @stephanieelliott (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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