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Show a Pending status for Expensify Cards awaiting issue or activation - #101399

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Explanation of Change

A newly issued Expensify Card sits in one of two setup states before it can be used: waiting to be issued, and waiting for the cardholder to activate it. In both, the wallet showed the card as Active - right next to the prompt asking the user to finish setting it up. The status said the card was ready while the row told them it wasn't.

The wallet only knew whether a card was suspended, and treated everything else as active.

Expensify Cards now report one of three statuses:

  • Pending while the card is waiting to be issued or activated
  • Inactive once the back end has suspended it
  • Active when it can be spent on

Suspended is checked first, so a card that has been turned off never reads as merely waiting. Frozen cards, company cards and personal cards are unchanged.

The status is based on the card's state, so a virtual card awaiting activation reads Pending as well.

Fixed Issues

$ #99971
PROPOSAL:

Tests

  1. As an admin, issue a new physical Expensify Card to a member so it sits in STATE_NOT_ISSUED.
  2. As that member, open Settings > Wallet > Cards.
  3. Verify the card shows a Pending badge rather than Active.
  4. Ship the card so it moves to NOT_ACTIVATED, and verify it still shows Pending.
  5. Activate the card and verify it shows Active.
  6. Set the card's limit to $0 so it is suspended, and verify it shows Inactive.
  • Verify that no errors appear in the JS console

Offline tests

QA Steps

// TODO: These must be filled out, or the issue title must include "[No QA]."

  • Verify that no errors appear in the JS console

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  • I linked the correct issue in the ### Fixed Issues section above
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    • I added steps for local testing in the Tests section
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  • I included screenshots or videos for tests on all platforms
  • I ran the tests on all platforms & verified they passed on:
    • Android: Native
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    • I verified that any new or modified comments were clear, correct English, and explained "why" the code was doing something instead of only explaining "what" the code was doing.
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  • I tested other components that can be impacted by my changes (i.e. if the PR modifies a shared library or component like Avatar, I verified the components using Avatar are working as expected)
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    • A similar style doesn't already exist
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Android: Native
Android: mWeb Chrome
Screenshot_20260917_120541_Chrome
iOS: Native
iOS: mWeb Safari
MacOS: Chrome / Safari
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Hey, I noticed you changed src/languages/en.ts in a PR from a fork. For security reasons, translations are not generated automatically for PRs from forks.

If you want to automatically generate translations for other locales, an Expensify employee will have to:

  1. Look at the code and make sure there are no malicious changes.
  2. Run the Generate static translations GitHub workflow. If you have write access and the K2 extension, you can simply click: [this button]

Alternatively, if you are an external contributor, you can run the translation script locally with your own OpenAI API key. To learn more, try running:

npx bun ./scripts/generateTranslations.ts --help

Typically, you'd want to translate only what you changed by running npx bun ./scripts/generateTranslations.ts --compare-ref main

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marufsharifi marked this pull request as ready for review September 17, 2026 09:14
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@mkhutornyi Please copy/paste the Reviewer Checklist from here into a new comment on this PR and complete it. If you have the K2 extension, you can simply click: [this button]

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🚧 flaviadefaria has triggered a test Expensify/App build. You can view the workflow run here.

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It looks like Pending and Inactive are getting the same badge color:

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I think we should stick to the same color scheme as we used for bank accounts, personal, and company cards.

If this is the color we used for pending bank account badges we should keep it. Though, as I posted in the main issue, we should update the Inactive badge color.

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