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# Manage recurring contributions

Recurring contributions charge a contributor on a schedule: weekly, monthly, quarterly, or annually. You can see every one, pause or cancel one, follow up when a payment fails, and report on recurring revenue.

### Offer recurring giving on a form

1. Click **Forms** and open the form.
2. Click the **Settings** tab.
3. Under **Giving options**, turn on **Recurring**.
4. Under **Recurring options**, choose **Weekly**, **Monthly**, **Quarterly**, or **Annually**.

Offering weekly removes spare change from the form.

### See every recurring contribution

Click **Transactions**, then **Recurring**. The top shows how many are **Active**, your **MRR** (monthly recurring revenue), and how many are **Paused**. Each row shows:

- **Contributor**
- **Amount**
- **Interval**
- **Next payment**
- **Started**
- **Status**

Search by contributor or email, or filter by status.

![Transactions Recurring with the recurring contributions table](https://storage.crisp.chat/users/upload-1/website/-/8/f/e/3/8fe32a7262b6a800/transactions-recurring_yrxra7.jpg)

To see only people who give on a schedule, go to **Contributors** and choose the **Recurring** view.

### Pause, resume, or cancel

You can pause, resume, or cancel any recurring contribution. Canceling stops it at the end of the current period, in SmartChange and at Stripe.

### Follow up on lapsed subscriptions

When a recurring payment fails, the subscription shows in **Finance → Lapsed subscriptions**. Use the views to sort them:

- **All**
- **Retry-eligible**: click **Retry** to charge the card on file.
- **Needs the contributor**: the contributor has to update their card first.

![Finance Lapsed subscriptions with the three views](https://storage.crisp.chat/users/upload-1/website/-/8/f/e/3/8fe32a7262b6a800/finance-lapsed_1r6of2l.jpg)

See [When a recurring contribution fails](https://smartchange.crisp.help/en/article/when-a-recurring-contribution-fails-1tsnd41/). To win back people who gave before and stopped, open the **Agent** and choose **Find contributors to win back**.

### Recurring contributions keep charging when you pause or close

- **Pause new gifts** in **Settings → General** stops new contributions. Recurring contributions keep charging.
- **Close form** in a form's **Settings** tab stops new payments. Recurring contributions keep charging.

### Reports

In **Reporting**, use **Subscriptions**, **Recurring revenue**, and **Retention and lapse**. Each report has a date range, a form filter, **Generate**, **Schedule**, and **Export report**.

Questions? Email us at [support@smartchange.app](mailto:support@smartchange.app).