[$500] IOU - Split scan if merchant not entered, error not displayed

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Version Number: 1.4.21
Reproducible in staging?: y
Reproducible in production?: y
If this was caught during regression testing, add the test name, ID and link from TestRail:
Email or phone of affected tester (no customers):
Logs: https://stackoverflow.com/c/expensify/questions/4856
Expensify/Expensify Issue URL:
Issue reported by: Applause - Internal Team
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Action Performed:

1. Go to https://staging.new.expensify.com/
2. Tap on fab --- Request money --- Scan
3. Upload a photo
4. Select 2 participants
5. Select add to split
6. Tap on split
7. Tap on scan request created
8. Enter an amount
9. Tap split
10. Tap on scan split created to open details page

Expected Result:

When user taps split without entering merchant details error message under merchant section should be displayed and user must not be allowed to create scan split request.

Actual Result:

When user taps split without entering merchant details, no error message under merchant section displayed and user allowed to create scan split request.

Workaround:

Unknown

Platforms:

Which of our officially supported platforms is this issue occurring on?

• Android: Native
• Android: mWeb Chrome
• iOS: Native
• iOS: mWeb Safari
• MacOS: Chrome / Safari
• MacOS: Desktop

Screenshots/Videos

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Bug6331479_1704301087810.scansplit.mp4

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Triggered auto assignment to @anmurali (Bug), see https://stackoverflow.com/c/expensify/questions/14418 for more details.

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

[paultsimura]

As per #33786 (comment), the merchant is not required on the non-expense requests with receipts. So I'd say this is an expected behavior now.

@mountiny could you please confirm/correct?

[mountiny]

Yep this is correct the merchant is not required for non-expense cases