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I confirmed that approval is accurate, yet I receive the "revert erc20 transfer amount exceeds allowance" error when using the transferFrom() function. Yet for some reason the internal _transfer() function works without any issues.

I checked and transferFrom() is public, not external.

The following code results in an error:

    function addLiquidity(uint256 _tokenAmount) external payable onlyOwner {
        // Transfer the tokens from the sender to the contract
        // Sender should approve the contract spending the tokens
        require(allowance(msg.sender, address(this)) >= _tokenAmount);
        transferFrom(msg.sender, address(this), _tokenAmount);
    }

Where this works:

    function addLiquidity(uint256 _tokenAmount) external payable onlyOwner {
        // Transfer the tokens from the sender to the contract
        // Sender should approve the contract spending the tokens
        require(allowance(msg.sender, address(this)) >= _tokenAmount);
        _transfer(msg.sender, address(this), _tokenAmount);
    }

Note the require statement before each attempt to transfer that passes and therefore clearly shows the contract is allowed to transfer the tokens.

Why does _transfer work but transferFrom does not? Shouldn't transferFrom work, especially considering the allowance has been correctly set?

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  • Are you certain the allowance returns a valid amount? Make sure you are checking the allowance from your wallet address to this contract. Apr 3 at 6:31

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I really don't think that the allowance are trully set. Because _transer doesn't require the allowanceanywhere. Can you share the _transferFrom?

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  • The entire core ERC20 code is imported from OpenZeppelin with import "@openzeppelin/contracts/token/ERC20/ERC20.sol"; (using HardHat). I did not change _transfer, transferFrom, or transferFrom -- so the code is all available to be reviewed in their repositories. The only push-back I would have about assuming that allowance hasn't been set is that require(allowance(msg.sender, address(this)) >= _tokenAmount); statement right before the transfer -- in both versions. This should mean allowance really has been set, or the operation would revert. Apr 6 at 14:52

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