Understanding what we can do using forms

[Beracochea]

 
I am un beginner with CiviCRM and we ponder if we will use it for our organization.
So it seems ok, but we cannot afford to pay for 300 users, at 12 $ per user and per months. A solution is to have a few users (5) to give a good tool for the managers for an intensive work with CiviCRM. And for the remaining, who needs to use ponctually the database,  I think I can use forms.
My question is what I can do using forms

I understand that I can use form to invite a connected user to update is personnal data and anwser to an event invitation, and pay its contributions, and a  edit a civicase file. What is the list ?
It is less clear, if I can ask a connected user to search for persons, organizations, and civicase file, to make some editing. What is the list of such possibilities
It is less clear if I can ask the connected personn do create a person, an organization, a relation, an event, etc. What are the possibilities

There is a documentation ?

Thanks for your help
roger

[petednz]

hi roger - i am a bit confused.

who is charging $12 per user per month?

[Hershel]

Roger, there are firms that offer a service of providing CiviCRM as SAAS and they charge you by the month per user.

However, CiviCRM is open source software meaning it is 100% free to download, install and use. You do need to host it on a web server, this is true. But there are many hosts that can provide hosting for you for a reasonable fee, and with no practical limits as to the number of users. A list of such hosts is here:

https://civicrm.org/providers/hosting

For the official documentation for CiviCRM, see here:

http://wiki.civicrm.org/confluence/display/CRMDOC/CiviCRM+Documentation

[Beracochea]

Hi
Thanks a lot for your help.
We are in France, and I only meet one firm, an american firm starting its activities in Europe. Their model basis is a per-user fee.
In fact I think we can make the implemenation, I already worked a lot on it, but I have still some problems to resolve and we cannot take the risk to have a not operational system. And our need is a little bit more complicated than to solve an "housing problem". But you know all is very easy after being at the top of the experience curb, so doing it alone I see a risk.
For instance I spent hours how to put in a form the possibility for a user with the right role do create a new "fields set" and to edit it. I saw how to do that in native mode.
My problem is to get some help in France, with Skype or I can find a limited budget just to be sure that we configure correctly CiviCRM and Drupal, we have the knwoledge to express our requirements

Thanks for your help.

[Hershel]

On this forum https://forum.civicrm.org/index.php/board,58.0.html you can post in French. There are other French speakers here.