[Due for payment 2025-07-22] [Due for payment 2025-06-24] [$250] Open Expensify Travel inside of a webview instead of a browser tab on mobile only

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Version Number: 9.1.41-1
Reproducible in staging?: New Feature
Reproducible in production?: New Feature
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This is a new feature request

Action Performed:

1. On an account that has travel enabled, click "Manage travel"

Expected Result:

On mobile apps:
You should be brought to travel.expensify.com inside of a webview in the New Expensify app

On other platforms:
You should be brought to travel.expensify.com in a new browser tab

Actual Result:

You are brought to travel.expensify.com in a new browser tab on all platforms

Workaround:

Can the user still use Expensify without this being fixed? Have you informed them of the workaround?

Platforms:

Select the officially supported platforms where the issue was reproduced:

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

Platforms Tested:

On which of our officially supported platforms was this issue tested:

• 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: @johncschuster

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Triggered auto assignment to Contributor-plus team member for initial proposal review - @c3024 (External)

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Triggered auto assignment to @johncschuster (NewFeature), see https://stackoverflowteams.com/c/expensify/questions/14418#:~:text=BugZero%20process%20steps%20for%20feature%20requests for more details. Please add this Feature request to a GH project, as outlined in the SO.

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⚠️ It looks like this issue is labelled as a New Feature but not tied to any GitHub Project. Keep in mind that all new features should be tied to GitHub Projects in order to properly track external CAP software time ⚠️

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Triggered auto assignment to Design team member for new feature review - @dannymcclain (NewFeature)