[$250] Attempting to pay an employee with no deposit account requires the admin to click "Pay with Expensify" twice, resulting in duplicated confirmation messages

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Version Number: 9.0.20-0 Reproducible in staging?: Y Reproducible in production?: Y If this was caught during regression testing, add the test name, ID and link from TestRail: https://expensify.testrail.io/index.php?/tests/view/4706616 Email or phone of affected tester (no customers): [email protected] Logs: https://stackoverflow.com/c/expensify/questions/4856 Issue reported by: Applause-Internal team

Action Performed:

Use Regions bank
Username: user_good | Password: pass_good
Account type: Plaid Saving (2nd option)
CompanyName: Alberta Bobbeth Charleson
CompanyTaxID: 123456789
First Name: Alberta
Last Name: Charleson
Last SSN numbers: 3333

Setup - NewDot

1. Sign-up for a new account on expensify.com using a Gmail account > choose 1-9 in the qualifiers > get redirected to NewDot
2. Choose the "Manage my team's expenses" path in the onboarding modal to create a workspace on completion
3. Go to Settings > Workspaces > Click the workspace > Workflows > Enable approvals
4. Click "Connect bank account" to add a fully verified VBBA using the details above
5. Navigate to the Members tab of the workspace settings
6. Invite a new user as an employee (must be Gmail)
7. Verify the user workspace chat is displayed in the LHN

Steps:

1. As Employee - Submit expenses in workspace chat
2. As Admin - Go to the expense report, approve it
3. Click Pay with Expensify (observe button still stays on the screen)
4. Click Pay with Expensify again (button disappears after second click)

Expected Result:

Expense payment should be initiated after a single click of the Pay with Expensify button. Confirmation messages should only be displayed once for both admin and employee.

*Note that payment is on hold until the employee adds a bank account.

Actual Result:

Expense payment is initiated only the Pay with Expensify button is clicked twice. Confirmation messages are displayed twice for both admin and employee.

*Note that payment is on hold until the employee adds a bank account.

Workaround:

Unknown

Platforms:

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

• [ ] Android: Native
• [x] Android: mWeb Chrome
• [ ] iOS: Native
• [x] iOS: mWeb Safari
• [x] MacOS: Chrome / Safari
• [ ] MacOS: Desktop

Screenshots/Videos

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