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I dont think we have any code in there to "record" an offline automatic payment. I suspect this would be quite useful though, and would a good contribution . However we do have the structure and the tables within civicontribute to manage this. You'll need to come up with a workflow and then implement it

Note that our recurring contribiution code does not do any computation on when the next payment is due. It leaves this work in the hands of the payment processor

lobo

There is a table called civicrm_contribution_recur which is similar to civicrm_contribution but also holds additional information about the recurring transaction (start/end/next scheduled date etc)

each record in civicrm_contribution has an optional link to the above table which signifies that this contribution is part of a larger recurring contribution

most of the hard work in recurring is done by paypal which calls us back. we then treat it as a normal contribution and link it to the recurring contribution. so the code on our end is quite trivial (CRM/Core/Payment/PayPalIPN.php). there is some simple setup code to create the recurring record

i dont think adding Recurring as a status is a good way to go

Briefly, an offline AP workflow will have at least the following parts:

a. Create / Edit a recurring contribution
b. Search / List all recurring contributions in the system. This should allow you to see what recurring contribution are due/over due / coming soon
c. Add / Edit a contribution linked to an existing recurring contribution

lobo