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fix: allow adding negative expenses to expense reports - #98627

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Explanation of Change

Allow negative and zero expenses to be added to regular expense reports while continuing to require positive amounts for IOU reports. Add focused coverage for negative, zero, and positive amounts across both report types.

Fixed Issues

$ #98425
PROPOSAL:

Tests

Test case 1 — Expense report:

  1. Go to the Self DM.
  2. Create one positive and one negative manual expense.
  3. Go to Spend > Expenses.
  4. Click Create > Create report.
  5. Open the report and click Add expenses > Existing expenses.
  6. Verify both the positive and negative expenses appear.
  7. Add the negative expense.
  8. Verify it is added to the report correctly.

Test case 2 — IOU report:

  1. Create one positive and one negative unreported expense.
  2. Open a 1:1 DM and create an expense to create an IOU report.
  3. Open the IOU report.
  4. Click More > Add expense > Add existing expense.
  5. Verify the positive expense is eligible.
  6. Verify the negative expense is not eligible.
  • Verify that no errors appear in the JS console

Offline tests

  1. Complete the expense setup from the test cases while online.
  2. Force the app offline.
  3. Repeat the eligibility checks for the expense and IOU reports.
  4. Verify the negative expense is available only for the expense report.
  5. Add it to the expense report.
  6. Go back online.
  7. Verify the expense remains in the report.

QA Steps

Same as Tests.

  • Verify that no errors appear in the JS console

Console validation: No PR-related console errors were found. The development-only errors reproduced unchanged on the PR base commit and are already documented here.

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Screenshots/Videos

Android: Native
Android-pr98627.mp4
Android: mWeb Chrome
Android-mWeb-pr98627.mp4
iOS: Native
ios-pr98627.mp4
iOS: mWeb Safari
ios-mWeb-pr98627.mp4
MacOS: Chrome / Safari
Chrome-pr98627.mp4

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✅ Changes either increased or maintained existing code coverage, great job!

Files with missing lines Coverage Δ
src/pages/canAddTransactionAmountToReport.ts 100.00% <100.00%> (ø)
src/pages/AddExistingExpense.tsx 0.00% <0.00%> (ø)
... and 6 files with indirect coverage changes

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