[Due for payment 2025-10-21] [Due for payment 2025-10-15] [Due for payment 2025-10-06] [$250] Report - "Marked as paid" system message isn't displayed in ND when admin paid expense in OD

[jponikarchuk]

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Version Number: v9.2.1-15
Reproducible in staging?: Yes
Reproducible in production?: Yes
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Email or phone of affected tester (no customers): N/A
Issue reported by: Applause Internal Team
Device used: MacBook Air M2 macOS 15.6.1
App Component: Chat Report View

Action Performed:

Preconditions: A collect workspace exists between an Admin using OldDot and a Member using NewDot.

Member - NewDot:

1. Navigate to the workspace chat
2. Submit an expense (can be manual)
3. Navigate to the report conversation

Admin - OldDot:
4. Navigate to the "Processing" report from the Collect workspace
5. Click the "Approve" button
6. Reimburse the report using the "I'll do it manually - just mark it as reimbursed" option from the dropdown arrow next to the Reimburse button

Member - NewDot:
7. Navigate to the paid report

Expected Result:

User is able to see both "approved" and "marked as paid" system messages in NewDot when the expense has been paid in OldDot.

Actual Result:

In NewDot, after the expense is paid in OldDot, the expense report shows only the "approved" system message. The "marked as paid" system message is missing.

Workaround:

Unknown

Platforms:

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

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Issue Owner

Current Issue Owner: @jasperhuangg

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Triggered auto assignment to @laurenreidexpensify (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.

[mukhrr]

Proposal

Please re-state the problem that we are trying to solve in this issue.

In NewDot, when an expense report is marked as reimbursed in OldDot, users only see the "approved" system message but are missing the "marked as paid" system message.

What is the root cause of that problem?

In shouldReportActionBeVisible we are ignoring the "marked as paid" message

App/src/libs/ReportActionsUtils.ts

Lines 873 to 877 in 374af8c

	// Ignore markedAsReimbursed action here since we're already display message that explains the expense was paid
	// elsewhere in the IOU reportAction
	if (reportAction.actionName === CONST.REPORT.ACTIONS.TYPE.MARKED_REIMBURSED) {
	return false;
	}

I think this check was wrongly introduced, as it suggests "already have "missing marked as paid" message in IOU report action", but we are missing the message for expense report. Or at least, we have a report actions from OD with actionName: MARKEDREIMBURSED

I understand it was intended to avoid duplication of "marked as paid" as report action may come with actionName: IOU. And this report actions message is being re-transformed in renderItemContent in PureReportActionItem.tsx:

App/src/pages/home/report/PureReportActionItem.tsx

Lines 1090 to 1096 in 374af8c

	} else if (isActionOfType(action, CONST.REPORT.ACTIONS.TYPE.IOU) && getOriginalMessage(action)?.type === CONST.IOU.REPORT_ACTION_TYPE.PAY) {
	const wasAutoPaid = getOriginalMessage(action)?.automaticAction ?? false;
	const paymentType = getOriginalMessage(action)?.paymentType;
	if (paymentType === CONST.IOU.PAYMENT_TYPE.ELSEWHERE) {
	children = <ReportActionItemBasicMessage message={translate('iou.paidElsewhere')} />;
	} else if (paymentType === CONST.IOU.PAYMENT_TYPE.VBBA) {

What changes do you think we should make in order to solve the problem?

So it'd be correct to remove the check from ReportActionsUtils.ts.

And we need to make sure to add a case for MARKED_REIMBURSED to show the message we are missing into renderItemContent in PureReportActionItem.tsx ONLY WHEN we don't have report action with actionName: IOU:

else if (isActionOfType(action, CONST.REPORT.ACTIONS.TYPE.MARKED_REIMBURSED) && !reportActions.some(reportAction => isActionOfType(reportAction, CONST.REPORT.ACTIONS.TYPE.IOU))) {
            children = <ReportActionItemBasicMessage message={translate('iou.paidElsewhere')} />;
        }

What specific scenarios should we cover in automated tests to prevent reintroducing this issue in the future?

N/A

What alternative solutions did you explore? (Optional)

N/A

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Triggered auto assignment to Contributor-plus team member for initial proposal review - @jjcoffee (External)

[jjcoffee]

@mukhrr I'd be a bit wary of removing that condition since it was added over a year ago in #34719. Could you clarify what you think might have changed more recently that would've brought this issue up?

Also, I'd be curious in what case are there both IOU and MARKEDREIMBURSED reportActions that could cause a duplicate message.

[mukhrr]

Also, I'd be curious in what case are there both IOU and MARKEDREIMBURSED reportActions that could cause a duplicate message.

@jjcoffee Data is coming from BE. I am not sure what has been changed there. I mean:

• you create an expense -> submit -> approve in ND
• you manually reimburse in OD
• BE sends reimbursed report action in expense details in ND
• you create another expense -> submit -> approve -> mark as paid in ND
• BE sends report action with action name IOU, type pay (which we started to call "marked as paid" since Fix: Remove amounts for automatically paid expenses #63230) and also reimbursed report action for this expense too.

I'd be a bit wary of removing that condition since it was added over a year ago in #34719.

From FE perspective, I am sure we have not shown "marked as paid" when reimbursed from OD since #34719.