Would like to suggest that the "Pledge" gift type on an NXT standard donor form function more like a true pledge. Meaning - when a donor selects pledge, enters their donation details (amount, date/frequency of payment) they should not be required to enter credit card information when they click the submit button. By requiring the credit card information at the time of checkout for the pledge payment intervals to automatically draft, that is essentially the same as a recurring gift.

The only difference that I'm seeing between the pledge and recurring gift options is that we as the non-profit can set the form to not allow a donor to "pledge" their due date past a specific date. While this is helpful, it doesn't give our donors the option of a "true pledge".

We consider a true pledge to be where the donor is allowed to promise that funds will be paid at a later date and they then could pay later via whatever method they prefer (cash, check, stock, donor advised fund, etc.). Also, if our definition of "true pledge" was available, it would allow the donor to select when they would like to receive a pledge reminder that would automatically generate 30 days ahead of time for us to send to them.