I am looking for an alternative to google docs for user management and document collaboration. Here are my needs:

  1. Be able to add/invite users to work on specific folders and documents.
  2. Users need to be able to create folders, upload and download documents, edit documents.
  3. I need to be the main administrator and I will be adding about 4 other users.
  4. We currently have about 1 GB of documents, with potential growth to about 5 GB.

I would like to pay for this service.

Are my needs possible with cryptpad?

If so, what plan should I sign up for?

Thanks

Hello,

Welcome and thanks for your interest in CryptPad!

You can use our Duo plan to assign storage to a team drive. Then your collaborators will be able to create/upload/download/edit files and folders on your team by themselves.

For your information you can also try this out without paying anything as our current offering has a 1GB free plan.

Hope this helps!

    Mathilde Thank you.

    I registered to test it out but there is no way to try the Duo plan without paying. Is the only option to pay to test out this plan?

    I just want to see what user management is like. Thanks

    Also, I am unable to create documents or presentations and if I upload one, I can't open it to edit.

      You're welcome!

      You don't need a premium account to be able to create a team. Just head over https://cryptpad.fr/teams/ and setup a test one.

      Documents and Presentations files creation is limited to premium accounts while they are still in early access. If you already subscribed to a paid plan you can then create documents and import your .docx and .pptx files into them. Use the CryptPad File menu: File > Import.

      Best regards,

      3 months later

      Mathilde

      Hello! I have a quick related question about collaboration, teams, and premium plans.

      For context, I have a Duo subscription that I share with my wife (so both of our accounts have 5GB+ of storage). Currently we collaborate by creating documents in our separate accounts & then sharing them. We think collaboration would be a bit easier if we started creating documents in a Team drive instead.

      I recently created a 1GB Team drive for us to use, and I was wondering: do I need to upgrade from the Duo plan to the Team plan to be able to increase the size of the Team drive to, say, 5GB? Because my Duo plan has already used my 2 drives (one for me and one for my wife)?