[Due for payment 2025-07-22] [Fix CP'd] Expense - IOU is not paid and is moved to a new workspace

[jponikarchuk]

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Version Number: v9.1.80-0
Reproducible in staging?: Yes
Reproducible in production?: N/A - new feature, doesn't exist in prod
If this was caught during regression testing, add the test name, ID and link from TestRail: #65296
Email or phone of affected tester (no customers): applausetester+ag1107a@applause.expensifail.com
Issue reported by: Applause Internal Team
Device used: Windows 11/ Chrome, Samsung S23FE/ Android 15, iPhone 13 Mini/ iOS 18.5
App Component: Money Requests

Action Performed:

Precondition: Have two Expensifail accounts set with USD as the Payment currency.
The accounts don't have any existing or previous IOUs made in the past.
The account A has been set up with a personal bank account, enable wallet.

1. Open the Expensify Hybrid app
2. [Account B] Submit an IOU to Account A
3. Log in as User A
4. Open the chat with Account B and pay the IOU using any Pay with wallet

Expected Result:

The IOU is successfully paid.

Actual Result:

A new workspace is created, and the IOU is moved to this new workspace.

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: @alexpensify

[melvin-bot]

Triggered auto assignment to @alexpensify (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.

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[rushatgabhane]

@BlameGPT find em' all

[BlameGPT]

No cap, these PRs acting up

• feat: standardize pay button #65296: Overhauled pay-button workflow and IOU payment actions, adding logic to move IOU reports to workspaces which can wrongly trigger workspace creation when paying with wallet.
• Expense - "moved this expense to personal space" in per diem expense grays out when offline #65538: Changed Report.ts handling of child report actions which could mis-assign report IDs and relocate IOU reports when their state updates.

If not above, check these

• Fix - Pay someone - Mark down is not rendered in description field after paying someone #60197: Modified IOU send-money parameters in IOU.ts, touching the core payment call path that might inadvertently misroute IOU settlement.