I work in education and our organization provides visits to universities/colleges students. These visits will typically include lunch in the dining hall. I am not responsible for handling payment and we have our business center call in to pay over the phone or thru invoice. I sent an email to the business folks about paying for lunch and said that “I will have xyz person call in for payment.” I thought that was it. A few hours later, this same person emails me separately and says that I should have asked the business team if someone can call in. Got it. They went onto say that even though they knew it wasn’t my intention, by saying “I will have them call in for payment,” it sounded more like an order than an ask.
Did I do/say something wrong? To be honest, this person has always called in for us and I just thought it was business as usual. I hope I didn’t come off as an a-hole but it sounded like I may have to this person?