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Rajesh

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Option to specify start date in recurring contributions
March 04, 2011, 03:14:59 am
Hi everyone,

I am developing a payment processor which is able to take recurring payments. As of now, i am using the contribution date as the date of the first recurring payment and i am calculating the fore coming payment dates using the frequency unit and interval.

But the users need to specify a start date to make their first payment and the fore coming payment dates can be calculated using the frequency unit and interval.

I used hook_civicrm_buildForm to inject the start date field to the contribution form. But i cant save the start date to the contribution record using hook_civicrm_postProcess, as i dont have any contribution id(because the next page is the confirmation page), as contribution record is not created at that point.

Any other idea how to do this?

I would appreciate any advice.

Thanks.

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Re: Option to specify start date in recurring contributions
March 04, 2011, 03:57:42 am
Have you tried using membership? For a recurring contribution, seems to fit better.

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Re: Option to specify start date in recurring contributions
March 04, 2011, 04:04:52 am
Hi xavier

The contributions are mostly donations. But the user must be able to specify the date of their first payment when making recurring contributions.

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Re: Option to specify start date in recurring contributions
March 06, 2011, 10:25:12 pm
might be non trivial, since we do process first installment at the same time of signup.

seems to be good addition feature, It would be great if you file an new issue and attached patch.

you get some reference from offline pledge ( contact tab -> pledge, here we could have enough flexibility on installments ) 

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