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My client has a very specific design for their donation forms, which don't conform very well to the default format for CiviContribute forms. In particular, their form designs use a multi-page layout, with, e.g. personal details on the first page, credit card/direct debit details on the second page.

Is there any provision for multi-page CiviContribute forms in CiviCRM?

Alternatively, is it possible to create a standalone custom form that posts the data appropriately into the correct contribution page?

We're working on something very similar (multi-step signup and contrib forms) at present.

Because CiviCRM forms have quite specific look / feel / flow which didn't match the designs supplied, I'm implementing the forms in Drupal's forms API (which I'm more familiar with than CiviCRM's HTML_QuickForms), then firing the resulting data into CiviCRM via its exposed API and internal CiviCRM methods (where the CiviCRM API doesn't cover all our requirements).

I'll be happy to report back on how it worked out once we get our forms finished. Ideally, we'd like to be able to add a bit more to the CiviCRM API as a result (ie, ability to process transactions as well as create contribution records, etc).