[Due for payment 2025-11-13] [Due for payment 2025-10-23] [$125] [Change Approver] Wrong next action message, missing Pay button after bypassing approver & approving offline

[jponikarchuk]

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Version Number: 9.1.99-0
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: #66899
Email or phone of affected tester (no customers): sdondsijsodios@gmail.com
Issue reported by: Applause Internal Team
Device used: Mac 15.5 / Chrome
App Component: Money Requests

Action Performed:

Precondition:

• Admin invites User A and User B to the workspace.
• Create a new approval workflow where User A submits to User B (approver).

1. Go to staging.new.expensify.com
2. [User A] Go to workspace chat.
3. [User A] Create an expense in the workspace chat and click Submit on the expense preview.
4. [Admin] Open workspace chat with User A.
5. [Admin] Open the expense report.
6. [Admin] Click More > Change approver.
7. [Admin] Click Bypass approvers, then click Change approver.
   → Note that the next action message shows "Waiting for you to approve expense(s)."
8. [Admin] Go offline.
9. [Admin] Click Approve.

Expected Result:

• The next action message will show "Waiting for an admin to pay expense(s)."
• Pay button will show up.

Actual Result:

• The next action message shows "Waiting for approver to approve expense(s)."
• Pay button does not show up.

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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• Upwork Job URL: https://www.upwork.com/jobs/~021961495544976823084
• Upwork Job ID: 1961495544976823084
• Last Price Increase: 2025-11-18

Issue Owner

Current Issue Owner: @parasharrajat

[melvin-bot]

Triggered auto assignment to @kadiealexander (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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[melvin-bot]

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

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[mjasikowski]

Most likely this PR is the problem: #66899