[Due for payment 2026-01-06] Add `Converted` amount in expense thread for multi-currency cash expenses

[JmillsExpensify]

We're encountering user confusion in multi-currency "cash expense" situations, specifically when the expense purchase currency and the workspace currency are not the same.

We already handle this natively for the Expensify Card and third-party credit cards, via an Original pattern (like below).

We'd like to handle this similarly cash expenses, including receipt scans and per diem expenses (Note: distance and time expenses use a rate and amount that matches the workspace currency, so they don't apply.).

All in all the solution looks like this:

• When expense-type is cash or per diem ...
• In the expense thread...
• Show Converted text in the "dot separator," followed by the amount in the workspace output currency....
• What appears in the Amount push row is the original purchase currency and amount (unless manually changed by the user).

Issue Owner

Current Issue Owner: @JmillsExpensify

[melvin-bot]

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

[melvin-bot]

Current assignee @JmillsExpensify is eligible for the Bug assigner, not assigning anyone new.

[nkdengineer]

🚨 Edited by proposal-police: This proposal was edited at 2025-12-18 15:47:13 UTC.

Proposal

Please re-state the problem that we are trying to solve in this issue.

Add Converted amount in expense thread for multi-currency cash expenses

What is the root cause of that problem?

Improvement

What changes do you think we should make in order to solve the problem?

Update amountDescription with converted amount if the transaction's currency is not the same with the workspace's currency. The converted amount can get by transaction?.convertedAmount data.

const convertedAmount = isPaidGroupPolicy(moneyRequestReport) ? -(transaction?.convertedAmount ?? 0) : transaction?.convertedAmount ?? 0;
    if (currency !== moneyRequestReport?.currency && !isCardTransaction) {
        amountDescription += ` ${CONST.DOT_SEPARATOR} ${'Converted'} ${convertToDisplayString(convertedAmount, moneyRequestReport?.currency)}`;
    }

App/src/components/ReportActionItem/MoneyRequestView.tsx

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	if (isCardTransaction) {
	if (transactionPostedDate) {
	dateDescription += ` ${CONST.DOT_SEPARATOR} ${translate('iou.posted')} ${transactionPostedDate}`;
	}
	if (formattedOriginalAmount) {
	amountDescription += ` ${CONST.DOT_SEPARATOR} ${translate('iou.original')} ${formattedOriginalAmount}`;
	}
	if (isCancelled) {
	amountDescription += ` ${CONST.DOT_SEPARATOR} ${translate('iou.canceled')}`;
	}
	} else {
	if (!isDistanceRequest && !isPerDiemRequest) {
	amountDescription += ` ${CONST.DOT_SEPARATOR} ${translate('iou.cash')}`;
	}
	if (isCancelled) {
	amountDescription += ` ${CONST.DOT_SEPARATOR} ${translate('iou.canceled')}`;
	} else if (isApproved) {
	amountDescription += ` ${CONST.DOT_SEPARATOR} ${translate('iou.approved')}`;
	} else if (shouldShowPaid) {
	amountDescription += ` ${CONST.DOT_SEPARATOR} ${translate('iou.settledExpensify')}`;
	}
	}
	if (isExpenseSplit) {
	amountDescription += ` ${CONST.DOT_SEPARATOR} ${translate('iou.split')}`;
	}
	if (isFromMergeTransaction) {
	// Because we lack the necessary data in policy.customUnits to determine the rate in merge flow,
	// We need to extract the rate from the merchant string
	// See https://github.com/Expensify/App/pull/71675#issuecomment-3425488228 for more information

Optional: We can only apply this for paid group policy if needed

What alternative solutions did you explore? (Optional)

NA

Result

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[samranahm]

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Proposal

Please re-state the problem that we are trying to solve in this issue.

Add Converted amount in expense thread for multi-currency cash expenses

What is the root cause of that problem?

Amount breakdown improvement

What changes do you think we should make in order to solve the problem?

We should modify the isCardTransaction in MoneyRequestView, For cash and per diem expenses, show converted amount if currencies differ.
Calculate the converted amount in workspace currency, we display the amount in workspace currency as the transaction will be converted

const shouldShowConvertedAmount = (transactionCurrency || actualCurrency) && policy?.outputCurrency && (transactionCurrency !== policy.outputCurrency || actualCurrency !== policy.outputCurrency) && formattedTransactionAmount;
if (shouldShowConvertedAmount) {
    const workspaceCurrency = policy?.outputCurrency ?? CONST.CURRENCY.USD;
    const convertedAmount = convertToDisplayString(actualAmount, workspaceCurrency);
    amountDescription += ` ${CONST.DOT_SEPARATOR} ${translate('iou.converted')} ${convertedAmount}`;
}

What alternative solutions did you explore? (Optional)

Reminder: Please use plain English, be brief and avoid jargon. Feel free to use images, charts or pseudo-code if necessary. Do not post large multi-line diffs or write walls of text. Do not create PRs unless you have been hired for this job.