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Hi there,

I wonder if somebody might be able to give me some pointers on payment plugins / billing modes if it's not too much bother?

We have a couple of billing_mode 4 payment plugins which we've written for specific clients, and would like them to be able to support separate contribution and membership payments.

However, when enabling this in Civi (ticking the 'Separate Membership Payment' box under 'Membership Settings'), we get this error here:

Sorry. A non-recoverable error has occurred.
This contribution page is configured to support separate contribution and membership payments. This plugin does not currently support multiple simultaneous payments. Please contact the site administrator and notify them of this error

No problem, so looking at the code which generates this error, it seems that Civi is looking at the billing mode to determine whether or not the payment plugin is capable of supporting this feature.

So my questions are:

* What is involved in getting a billing_mode 4 plugin to support multiple simultaneous payments? Would it involve changing the billing mode and significantly rewriting the plugin? If so, what billing modes would be capable of doing this?

* What would the plugin itself need to do to support this? How is this type of transaction handled by Civi?

Thanks for your help!

Andrew