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Hi all - I'm still brand-new to CiviCRM, attended CiviCon and the User/Admin training in Chicago earlier this month, and still configuring our setup.

The first contribution page that I'm going to be setting up to run live in this new system is a complicated, time-specific, recurring donation for one specific sector of our donors, called Foundation Builders. 

The program as introduced by our Development Committee is for individuals to make a commitment for 5 years of donations at $25/mo. 

What the committee would like to be able to do is offer varying payment options "charge your card monthly at $25", "charge your card quarterly at $75", "charge your credit card every 6 months", "charge your credit card annually", "receive an invoice to send a check quarterly", "receive an invoice to send a check every 6 months", "receive an invoice to send a check annually".

I've been thinking overtime to evaluate how in the heck I can implement the above - and so I thought I'd come here for some opinions on how I might implement the above or if it's so hard that I should go back to the Development Committee and say "hey we can only give the monthly option" or like.

Please, no thought is too basic-level teaching for me to gain something by it!  Thank you in advance!
Keith Jarvis

I think you can get some of this done w/o custom coding by setting up a launch page in Drupal which has links to two different CiviContribute pages. One page is for the automatically charged via credit card method ("Recurring Contribution in civi language). Second page is for the "invoice me..." option ("Pledge" in civi language).

The problem you'll need to solve is that there's not built in way (afaik) to force a total amount for the recurring contribution or the pledge methods. I think it would be pretty easy to create a custom version of the contribution page template which forces a given scenario:

"I want to contribute $25 each month for 60 installments"
"I pledge to contribute $25 each month for 60 installments"

(you would basically set fixed values to the amount_other, frequency_unit and installments fields)

However, if you have to give folks all the different frequency / amount options which add up to 1,500 - I think you'd have to use the form validation hook (in a small separate drupal module) to calculate whether the user's chosen schedule totals at least 1,500. This would take some programming skills although probably not very complicated.