Answers.Body: <p>I do this regularly right in CiviCRM by editing the recurring contribution and setting the &quot;Next Scheduled Contribution Date&quot; to be when I want the pause to end, works great.</p>
  
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Answers.Body: <p>Yes and No.</p>
  <p>Here's two options:</p>
  <ol>
  <li><p>if you want to Pause for a specified period of time (say 6months) -&gt; hit Edit on the Recurring Contribution and advance the next scheduled contribution date by +6months.</p>
  </li>
  <li><p>if you want to pause indefinitely -&gt; you could hit Cancel on the Recurring Contribution. And then (later on when ready to &quot;un-pause&quot;) -&gt; set the Recurring Series to In Progress again [that can not be done via the CiviCRM UI, but using API Explorer or with direct database access it's a simple query).</p>
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  <p>No pause on the iATS side of things.</p>
  
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Body: <p>I know that you can't pause contributions from within CiviCRM with processors that aren't token-based - but can you with iATS?</p>
  <p>If you can't do it within CiviCRM, can it be done from within the iATS portal?</p>
  
Tags: <recurring-contributions><iats><iatspayments>
Title: Can iATS "pause" recurring contributions?
ThreadText: # Can iATS "pause" recurring contributions?
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2023-08-09)
  
  I know that you can't pause contributions from within CiviCRM with processors that aren't token-based - but can you with iATS?
  
  If you can't do it within CiviCRM, can it be done from within the iATS portal?
  
  **Tags:** recurring-contributions, iats, iatspayments
  
  
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  ## 2 answers
  
  ### Answer by username_2 on 2023-08-09. Score: 3 | Accepted answer
  
  Yes and No.
  
  Here's two options:
  
  1. if you want to Pause for a specified period of time (say 6months) -> hit Edit on the Recurring Contribution and advance the next scheduled contribution date by +6months.
  2. if you want to pause indefinitely -> you could hit Cancel on the Recurring Contribution. And then (later on when ready to "un-pause") -> set the Recurring Series to In Progress again [that can not be done via the CiviCRM UI, but using API Explorer or with direct database access it's a simple query).
  
  No pause on the iATS side of things.
  
  
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  ### Answer by username_1 on 2023-08-15. Score: 0
  
  I do this regularly right in CiviCRM by editing the recurring contribution and setting the "Next Scheduled Contribution Date" to be when I want the pause to end, works great.
  
  
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