At present there is no functionality to link recurring gifts to proposal records in Raiser's Edge? In the real world proposals can lead to any sort of gift so I am not sure why this functionality is not included in the product. We make a manual note why it is unlinked but this is not ideal!
We agree.
If the recurring gift was linked to a proposal the pay-cash's could be automatically applied to the proposal whilst the recurring gift was linked. Should a new proposal then need to be linked to the recurring gift (in the case of an 'upgrade') the link should be moved to the new proposal and the subsequent pay-cash's added to the new proposal.
Adding the pay-cash's manually in order to keep the 'amount funded' figure correct is not a reasonable task, either for the gift admin team or the fundraisers when it ought to be something that can be done automatically when the pay-cash's are added.