IOU - Unable to request money in a newly created account

[kavimuru]

If you haven’t already, check out our contributing guidelines for onboarding and email contributors@expensify.com to request to join our Slack channel!

---

Action Performed:

Precondition : Create a new account and verify on newdot.

1. Login with new account
2. Request money from someone.
3. Enter existing expensify email in the field

Expected Result:

Email should appear in the results to select from

Actual Result:

Email does not appear under field. Unable to send request money with new account.

Workaround:

Unknown

Platform:

Where is this issue occurring?

• Web
• iOS
• Android
• Desktop App
• Mobile Web

Version Number: v1.1.24-0

Reproducible in staging?: Yes

Reproducible in production?: Yes

Logs: https://stackoverflow.com/c/expensify/questions/4856

Notes/Photos/Videos:

https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/43996225/147704841-490d2b30-5e67-4461-8004-172fc7b53a17.mp4

Expensify/Expensify Issue URL:

Issue reported by: Applause

Slack conversation:

View all open jobs on GitHub

[MelvinBot]

Triggered auto assignment to @chiragsalian (Engineering), see https://stackoverflow.com/c/expensify/questions/4319 for more details.

[chiragsalian]

Not a daily since there are workarounds like pressing enter, Or first starting a message with the person and then requesting cash from them. Besides the "recent" list, the input field should allow you to request cash from any valid email/phone by pressing enter.

I'm a little confused why it doesn't work consistently here. Like if i enter a random valid email it works fine but when i enter an expensify email it doesn't work well. Maybe its some domain thing. Need to investigate some more since its odd that it works better from an existing account but works weirdly for a new account, very odd. Demoting for now but shall continue investigating.