The end of caldera form and the future we may expect

[jbonlinea]

Hi,
I've been usign your plug-in for some time, not super extensively, but it really is a game changer, and I would like to thank you for that work.

When I started using it, it was also the time when caldera form was bought by staurday drive, that also run ninja form; many were worries about the future of caldera, and what was foreseeable has happened, the is the end of caldera form.

I allways hooped for this integration to be available for other forms, so we all could have had a backup plan.

So the question is now that caldera time is counted, what will happen for CiviUsers ?
do you plan to port this plug-in for other form processor, maintain it like such as long as possible on caldera, untill caldera is totally vanished (which is almost already the case, many bugs occurs) ?

It's just a question, of course I do hope that you have a future in mind, but that is still just a question, and the opportunity to congratulate and thank you for this super usefull initiative and work.

cheers

[cdhassell]

It appears that the new owners intend to offer a CiviCRM integration for Ninja Forms. They didn't say whether it would be free but I suspect not. Maybe the question is how this team feels about a paid alternative.

https://calderaforms.com/2021/03/the-future-of-caldera-forms/

CiviCRM, while not an official Caldera Forms add-on, enjoys widespread use and a pretty incredible community that showed up in force during our discovery process earlier this year. We’ll be working in conjunction with their team to make an official Ninja Forms <> CiviCRM integration to make your transition seamless and keep you connected to WordPress

[jbonlinea]

Hi,
Yes I've seen that, in the comment there is someone who raise the question, to which they reply that it probably won't be free and that ninja form modules usually cost between 30 to 50 dollars... and my guess is that, if the module is indeed ported, it will be included with their agency plan with all the others CRM integration modules...

And about how do they feel... probably not as bad as many of us mecachisenros/cf-civicrm users...

Time will tell

Cheers

[allinappliadmin]

This is also a huge issue for us, Afform is great but far to be able to replace what we had with Caldera and mecachisenros did a great job to reach the level of a Drupal/Webform-civicrm. I've started a new and very complex integration just before the announcement and now I'm thinking of launching a brand new Drupal 8 site in in less than 1 week. :-/

[cdhassell]

Well I've signed up on CiviCoop's page to support their effort to keep caldera forms going. If this is a concern to you and you haven't already done so, I'd suggest you do the same.

[allinappliadmin]

thanks, I'll also signed up.