[$250] Scan - "Missing merchant" error is still displayed after paying the expense

[vincdargento]

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Version Number: 9.1.63-4
Reproducible in staging?: Yes
Reproducible in production?: No
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Email or phone of affected tester (no customers): N/A
Issue reported by: Applause Internal Team
Device used: MacBook Air 15.5 Chrome
App Component: Money Requests

Action Performed:

1. Navigate to staging.new.expensify.com and sign in with a new gmail account, validate it
2. Create a workspace, navigate to the workspace
3. Create a manual expense with the amount, merchant and category
4. Create a scan expense in the WS chat, uploading an image, that will fail the scan
5. While the image is scanning, open the expense details and manually enter the amount
6. Verify, that after the scan is complete, there is an error in the merchant field "Enter a merchant name" and "Missing merchant" on the scan expense row in the expenses list inside the report
7. Submit, approve and pay elsewhere the report with two expenses
8. Open the expense report and verify, that the error is dismissed after paying the expenses

Expected Result:

The error "Missing merchant" is not displayed on the scan expense row after paying the expense

Actual Result:

"Missing merchant" error is still displayed on the scan expense row inside the report in the workspace chat and in the Reports tab after paying the expense

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

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Issue Owner

Current Issue Owner: @alitoshmatov

[melvin-bot]

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

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[github-actions]

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[vincdargento]

@CortneyOfstad FYI I haven't added the External label as I wasn't 100% sure about this issue. Please take a look and add the label if you agree it's a bug and can be handled by external contributors.

[BlameGPT]

Possible culprit PRs for this issue

• fix: display error when required fields are missing #63641: This PR addresses displaying errors when required fields like merchant are missing, matching the issue about the 'Missing merchant' error persisting after paying the expense.
• [InternalQA] Split screen drop zone #62650: This PR involves scan receipt flows in workspace chat and expense reports, which relates to the scan expense creation and error handling in the issue reproduction steps.
• Remove totals from report action buttons #63415: This PR modifies report action buttons related to approving and paying reports, which aligns with the issue step of verifying error dismissal after paying the expense.

[Beamanator]

Discussing in slack - working on a revert!