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I've searched the forum and Wiki regarding the right set-up of recurring memberships or donations while paying via PayPal and it seems it's still not supported.

Lobo indicated it'd be a 2-4-hr project to suppress the PayPal button when the recurring field is checked off on the contribution page. Is that still a good estimate? What are we talking about in $'s?

Also, PayPal told me they do support recurring payments when paid by PayPal but the code on the website would have to be adjusted... would it be possible to adjust CiviCRM code? Quoting from PayPal:
https://developer.paypal.com/webapps/developer/docs/classic/api/#ec
You will be using the “Recurring Payments/Reference Transactions” section.
CreateBillingAgreement (NVP: https://developer.paypal.com/webapps/developer/docs/classic/api/merchant/CreateBillingAgreement_API_Operation_NVP/) (SOAP: https://developer.paypal.com/webapps/developer/docs/classic/api/merchant/CreateBillingAgreement_API_Operation_SOAP/)
CreateRecurringPaymentsProfile (NVP: https://developer.paypal.com/webapps/developer/docs/classic/api/merchant/CreateRecurringPaymentsProfile_API_Operation_NVP/) (SOAP: https://developer.paypal.com/webapps/developer/docs/classic/api/merchant/CreateRecurringPaymentsProfile_API_Operation_SOAP/)

This all started with getting the error: 11502: Invalid Token ... which only happens with the combination of recurring payments and PayPal (vs. PayPal Pro payment processor using a credit card).

If I'm way off and this already works (except perhaps my config is incorrect or incomplete), I'm all ears ;-)

Thanks for the reply but I'm not confusing the two ;-)
I've done enough research and spent way more time on the phone with PayPal than I care to admit. We are using PayPal Pro Recurring Payments but nope, the initial payment doesn't go through on membership-type contribution page when the user selects the auto-renew option and pays via the PayPal button (their PayPal account) ... works fine when using C/C or on donation pages using both payment types.

Summary:
Auto-renew and PayPal Pro processor on...
donation-type contribution pages when user pays with PayPal account - WORKS
donation-type contribution pages when user pays with C/C - WORKS
membership-type contribution pages when user pays with PayPal account - does NOT work - get a 11502 invalid token message (by PayPal)
membership-type contribution pages when user pays with C/C - WORKS

Thanks for any pointers ;-)

Thanks, Eileen, so is this a bug then? Summary:
Combination of auto-renew and PayPal Pro (when paying w/ PayPal account) on membership pages results in "11502 invalid token" error message

Thank you