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For our organization, we need Civi to be able to support Recurring contributions along with a given Membership Type available on a specific contribution page. There seems to be a disconnect between Membership Types and having it be a Recurring contribution. Please help us understand what can / can not be done with Civi and propose a working solution to fit our needs.

When a person joins our organization, they may pick either PayPal or CC payment method. We have separate contribution pages for those two types.

Further, they can join with a Recurring payment of either monthly or yearly, thus a total of four contribution pages.

On each of these contribution pages, there are several membership levels offered. We have been planning to use Membership Types to accomplish this, which supports an intuitive radio button pick list on the contribution page.

However, it seems to be the fact that we are trying to include Recurring contribution in the equation that we end up with an extra field on the contribution page titled Contribution Amount which is a free-form entry field which seems to be what the person will actually be billed for their membership.

This disconnect between Membership Types and Recurring contributions is quite confusing.

How can we simply leverage the Membership Type and have it be Recurring? (Be it a monthly or yearly recurring frequency.) Thus no extra Contribution Amount field, just recurring of the amount next to the radio button selected.

Thanks lobo for that port hole view into the future.

What is the work-around to make this sort of thing happen with current code?

hee hee hee...  Seeing raw capabilities in Civi causes me a strong desire to make something work.

All right, so assuming that Membership Types and Recurring contributions is the troublesome combination, then please follow me along the path of "what if..."

1) We have separate contribution pages for each Membership Type (Level and payment method... yes lots of pages) which eliminates the need to leverage the Membership Type pick list
2) Zero out the value that was in the radio button pick list
3) Hard code the value for the Contribution Amount so that it does not show up as a free-form field

In this case, would Recurring contribution work as needed?

So, there is funded work on Authorize.net for this - other payment processors can follow the model once it is written for Authorize.net

pass

that will be what the new code does. when a recurring contrib comes in, bump the membership dates as per the rules

lobo

that said, u might want to wait for 3.3.1 since we'll be releasing this feature in that release. 3.3.1 is scheduled to be out around xmas

will save u time and money, and u can help debug and test the solution. in return, u might want to consider helping other "make it happen" projects happen: http://civicrm.org/contribute

lobo

Request for how this is implemented:

Please put verbose logging into the script so that we can audit what steps the script is performing.

I collect all script trace output and retain it on the server for 30 days.

"The truth is in the logs."

it did not make it into 3.3.1, shooting for 3.3.2 now

lobo