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we recently decided to fork out a hefty monthly fee to get paypal pro. The main reason was to be able to set up recurring monthly contributions from many of our donors. But there's a major problem: There's no date field in CiviContribute where we can specify which day of the month the recurring credit card payment should occur.

1. The date field is available in Paypal (under Tools/Recurring payments/New profile.
2. In Civi, the day on which you set up the recurring credit card payment becomes the default date for each subsequent monthly credit card charge
3. We tried to then go to paypal and edit the recurring payment record. But Paypal does NOT allow for the date field to be edited; A custom date can ONLY be entered when the profile is first created.
4. We looked at work arounds, but all have major flaws that make them useless
5. the only solution I can see is for civicrm to provide the "date of first payment" field that paypal makes available.

How easy and how soon could that be done?

Thanks, --Geoff