[$250] Expense - Typing numbers under expense will trigger Concierge category change

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Version Number: 9.1.72-0
Reproducible in staging?: Yes
Reproducible in production?: Yes
If this was caught during regression testing, add the test name, ID and link from TestRail: #64097
Email or phone of affected tester (no customers): N/A
Issue reported by: Applause Internal Team
Device used: Windows 10 / Chrome, macOS Sequoia 15.5
App Component: Money Requests

Action Performed:

Preconditions: Account is an admin of a workspace

1. Navigate to https://staging.new.expensify.com/
2. Log in with a new Gmail account
3. Navigate to the workspace chat
4. Start creating a manual expense with any amount
5. Set merchant to "asd" and select any category
6. Create the expense
7. Open the expense
8. Type numbers from 1 to 10 one by one under the expense

Expected Result:

Concierge should only change category after it offered a message with options to choose from.

Actual Result:

Typing numbers under an expense with filled category will trigger Concierge category change.

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: @hoangzinh

[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.

[CortneyOfstad]

Getting eyes!

[melvin-bot]

Job added to Upwork: https://www.upwork.com/jobs/~021940142390596973296

[melvin-bot]

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

[CortneyOfstad]

@hoangzinh I am struggling to recreate this. Are you able to recreate on your side? If not, I believe that this is an edge case, and that we can close.

Interested to hear your thoughts!

[CortneyOfstad]

So I actually slept on this and I believe this to be an edge case. The odds of a customer taking those exact steps are very slim. I don't see this being a consistent issue we will see so closing this out. Thanks team!

[hoangzinh]

Thank you @CortneyOfstad for quick action on it. Sorry, I couldn't manage to test it on time