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I have a set of donors to a campaign. I recently installed CiviCRM 2.1 with Google Check-out. Some of the donors want to pay in installments. I want to enable this.

I set up a contribution page with Pledges selected. During testing, it allows me to enter their amounts, payment intervals etc. What I'd like is, when a contribution page is completed, that CiviCRM enables the payment at each interval be sending reminder emails, providing a link to a page where the donor can enter a credit card payment, it is deducted from the account and the pledge status is changed accordingly. Is this possible?

Even better would be if CiviCRM would automatically deduct the credit card at each interval. Is this possible?

It seems to me that CiviCRM records the 'pledge', and highlights when payments are overdue. Is it meant to enable processing of the payments, e.g. send the donors a link to a payment page at each interval plus reminders, via email, to enable them to make the payment? Or does CiviCRM stop at recording the pledge, send reminders, and it'd be up to me to collect the money and change the pledge status?

Are there any tutorials that take you through making contributions, payments of which are made over time, where payments are done either on-line by the donor, or automatically deducted from a credit card at each interval?

Thanks. Any help with this would be appreciated.

Lobo

Thanks for this. Just checking a couple of thing:

1. Is it possible to use this script without setting up a contribution page. For example, I enter the pledges using Pledges tab in contacts, then run this script to send the reminder? If so, where do I define the payment page?
2. Or does this script need to be run in combination with setting up a contribution page?

Thanks
John

OK. How do I associate the script to the contribution page?

Thanks for the prompt reply.