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I'm using CiviCRM's "pay later" functionality on a contribution page and have received a number of contributions that now have a "pending" status. This is good. When I receive a paper check, I can just update that contribution.

However, some donors wish to fulfill their pay-later pledge online instead of by check. Is there a way for the donor to pay online such that the "pending" contribution will be automatically removed or updated?

Note: I am using a thermometer to display the total amount raised and it includes pay-later contributions, which is important to me. I'd like to avoid having duplicate contributions in the thermometer.

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Similar functionality was added as a part of https://issues.civicrm.org/jira/browse/CRM-19263 which should be included in version >= 4.7.12.

What it includes -

  • You need to add a Default Invoice Payment Page on CiviContribute Component Settings.

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  • Now any pay later contribution created by a user would contain a Pay Now link on User dashboard page /civicrm/user?reset=1.

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  • Hitting this button would take you to live contribution page where one can complete the pending contribution using CC details.

More details on the jira issue link.

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  • looks like the JIRA ticket went through with 'no documentation required' which might be why it is proving hard to google about
    – petednz - fuzion ♦
    Commented Sep 18, 2017 at 4:57
  • wiki.civicrm.org/confluence/pages/… was the flowchart required for the pay now functionality
    – petednz - fuzion ♦
    Commented Sep 18, 2017 at 5:03
  • Warnings: This approach currently has the following downsides: (1) enabling deferred revenue has other effects which are not yet documented, like creating bookkeeping entries automatically for member and event revenue; (2) when a payment is made with this "Pay now" link the contribution will be linked to the "default invoice" page instead of its originally linked contribution page; (3) the contribution may move to a different contact record based on the fields filled out at payment time.
    – Sean
    Commented Sep 18, 2017 at 23:13
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    As a result of this discussion we're going to make changes: 1) remove illogical dependence on Deferred Revenue Enabled, 2) leave original contribution page id link when paid later on a different page configured through 'Default Invoice Page' setting, 3) append source info and page id from payment page to end of source info from original pcontribution page.
    – Joe Murray ♦
    Commented Sep 19, 2017 at 18:52
  • See similar question at civicrm.stackexchange.com/questions/20237/…. This ability should be available to authenticated users.
    – Jacques-Marie Moranne
    Commented Sep 27, 2017 at 12:27
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The payment page has the following URL : .../civicrm/contribute/transact?reset=1&id=12&ccid=251 (where id is the Contribution-Page-Id and ccid is the Contribution-id) (you must force the id).

Being given the contact-id and the contribution-page-id, you can deliver this URL via a small php program (eg : before_url_pay.php?c=[current-user:civicrm-contact:id]&p=15) which fetches the contribution-id (SELECT id FROM civicrm_contribution WHERE contribution_page_id='.$page.' AND contact_id='.$contact.' AND contribution_status_id!=1), then generates and opens the URL (with ccid = the selected id).

If you use webforms, you can get the contact_id, and then parameterize the Webform Setting Redirection Location as /sites/default/your_php_directory/before_url_pay.php?c=[current-user:civicrm-contact:id]&p=15 (contrib page id)

Doing that, the user won't even need to pass via the dashboard.

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