[$250] Held expense - Negative amount in the payment button when the unheld expense comes from self

[IuliiaHerets]

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Version Number: 9.0.46-4 Reproducible in staging?: Y Reproducible in production?: Y Email or phone of affected tester (no customers): applausetester+pso@applause.expensifail.com Issue reported by: Applause Internal Team

Action Performed:

1. Go to staging.new.expensify.com
2. [User A] Submit $100 to User B.
3. [User B] Submit $20 to User A.
4. [User B] Hold the expense submitted by User A.
5. [User B] Go back to expense report.
6. [User B] Note that the payment button has negative amount.

Expected Result:

The payment button will not have negative amount.

Actual Result:

The payment button shows negative amount. Error shows up when trying to pay the negative amount.

Workaround:

Unknown

Platforms:

• [x] Android: Native
• [x] Android: mWeb Chrome
• [x] iOS: Native
• [x] iOS: mWeb Safari
• [x] MacOS: Chrome / Safari
• [x] MacOS: Desktop

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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.

[IuliiaHerets]

We think that this bug might be related to #wave-collect - Release 1

[IuliiaHerets]

@stephanieelliott 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

[mkzie2]

Proposal

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

The payment button shows negative amount. Error shows up when trying to pay the negative amount.

What is the root cause of that problem?

If any transaction is held, we display the unheld option first without checking whether the nonHeldAmount is negative or not

https://github.com/Expensify/App/blob/5d25b40eab1416d2d67624a376099853a2b6af86/src/components/MoneyReportHeader.tsx#L147

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

1. We can return other data like isNegativeNonHeldAmount in this function that will be true if the unheldTotal is a negative amount

if (hasUpdatedTotal(iouReport, policy) && hasPendingTransaction) {
    const unheldTotal = reportTransactions.reduce((currentVal, transaction) => currentVal + (!TransactionUtils.isOnHold(transaction) ? transaction.amount : 0), 0);

    return [
        CurrencyUtils.convertToDisplayString(unheldTotal * coefficient, iouReport?.currency),
        CurrencyUtils.convertToDisplayString((iouReport?.total ?? 0) * coefficient, iouReport?.currency),
        unheldTotal * coefficient < 0,
    ];
}

return [
    CurrencyUtils.convertToDisplayString((iouReport?.unheldTotal ?? 0) * coefficient, iouReport?.currency),
    CurrencyUtils.convertToDisplayString((iouReport?.total ?? 0) * coefficient, iouReport?.currency),
    (iouReport?.unheldTotal ?? 0) * coefficient < 0,
];

https://github.com/Expensify/App/blob/5d25b40eab1416d2d67624a376099853a2b6af86/src/libs/ReportUtils.ts#L7497-L7499

2. Then we will check if isNegativeNonHeldAmount is true we should display the formattedAmount

const displayedAmount = isAnyTransactionOnHold && canAllowSettlement && !isNegativeNonHeldAmount ? nonHeldAmount : formattedAmount; 

https://github.com/Expensify/App/blob/5d25b40eab1416d2d67624a376099853a2b6af86/src/components/MoneyReportHeader.tsx#L147

3. We also need to pass nonHeldAmount as undefined if isNegativeNonHeldAmount is true so we will not display the wrong paid-only option

nonHeldAmount={!hasOnlyHeldExpenses && !isNegativeNonHeldAmount  ? nonHeldAmount : undefined} 

https://github.com/Expensify/App/blob/5d25b40eab1416d2d67624a376099853a2b6af86/src/components/MoneyReportHeader.tsx#L406

Or we can add a !isNegativeNonHeldAmount check in these places to prevent showing the choose approve/paid option https://github.com/Expensify/App/blob/5d25b40eab1416d2d67624a376099853a2b6af86/src/components/MoneyReportHeader.tsx#L176

https://github.com/Expensify/App/blob/5d25b40eab1416d2d67624a376099853a2b6af86/src/components/MoneyReportHeader.tsx#L161

We need to do the same fix in ReportPreview

What alternative solutions did you explore? (Optional)

If we don't want to return isNegativeNonHeldAmount in getNonHeldAndFullAmount function, we can check inside each component

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

[Jaytechent]

Do I need to fund my account real time because I tested the web platform and it went well

I sent 100 from user A, den user B submit 20. And user B still return 80( no negative ) and paid button didn't encounter error, I wanted to send video on upwork but it seems the handler may not reply me and in turn waste my connect and I can't afford to do that. Let me know if its solved or sth else.

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Contributor details Your Expensify account email: olemilek100@gmail.com Upwork Profile Link: https://www.upwork.com/freelancers/~0128e4d43ce1ad1755

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[stephanieelliott]

Thanks @Jaytechent! No, you should not need to fund the account. Did you Hold the $100 expense (step 4)? It doesn't look like you did, otherwise it would have a comment on it (the hold reason, which is required).

I was able to repro this:

[stephanieelliott]

@akinwale we have a proposal here -- can you review when you get a chance?

[stephanieelliott]

@akinwale we have a proposal https://github.com/Expensify/App/issues/50497#issuecomment-2402022672 -- can you review when you get a chance?

^^ bump @akinwale

[akinwale]

@stephanieelliott Thanks for the bump.

@mkzie2's proposal is adequate here.

🎀👀🎀 C+ reviewed.

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Triggered auto assignment to @Beamanator, see https://stackoverflow.com/c/expensify/questions/7972 for more details.

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