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Why is there no "source" field in the table "civicrm_contribution_recur"   It would be helpful in troubleshooting issues to know if the recurring subscription was generated by a particular self-service contribution page, or a back-office user, etc.

Also, is it possible in any configuration of CiviCRM that someone chooses a recurring payment (either self-service or backoffice user) and then CiviCRM submits the first transaction as an AIM ( ie one-time transaction), and also submits an ARB subscription for the remainder?

I am trying to trouble-shoot an issue where someone used a CiviContribute page to sign up for an auto-renewing monthly membership. This auto-renew was configured as required for that page. ( The amount is $72.00)  I am using Authorize.net for my payment processor.  I was expecting to see an Authorize.net ARB subscription  for $72.00 per month within the Authorize.net account. Instead I saw a one-time completed payment of $72.00, plus an ARB subscription for the remaining installments.

In CiviCRM, it showed the first $72.00 as a plain stand-alone contribution, not recurring.  CiviCRM had no record of the ARB subscription for the remaining payments. (I queried the table "civicrm_contribution_recur" to see what is going on in this issue.)   However, since Authorize.net had the ARB subscription active in their system, there were successful payments of $72.00 in Authorize.net, yet there was no record of those ARB payments in CiviCRM.

My hunch is that since CiviCRM has no record of the ARB subscription for $72.00, it was ignoring the Authorize.net silent POST urls that came in for those transactions.

The whole situation is a bit disturbing in that there are donor credit cards being processed successfully by Authorize.net, yet there is no record of these in CiviCRM.