Can I use Community Edition for this company?

Not sure where I’m supposed to post this. I do (unrelated) volunteer work for a small/medium sized Foundation, revenue is slightly above 5 million euro/year which I believe is the official cutoff for Community Edition. The Foundation has ~50 paid employees and a ton of volunteers. They do commercial activities but are not really a for-profit organization, they rely heavily on subsidies.

I would like to create some RPA automations for their office on a volunteer basis, but they definitely don’t have a good business case to pay for the software. They are interested, but only if it’s free. It would be good practice for me, I’ve been out of the RPA scene for about a year.

These are not high-priority processes and they would always be able to fall back to manual work, so I feel comfortable using Community Edition for them with no support from UiPath, but could they get in trouble for using the Community License?

I tried searching for a way to contact UiPath about this but was unable to find a fitting contact form. I can also imagine they are not keen on receiving questions like these all the time too.

If anyone knows anything about using Community in these situations, please share. Thank you. :slight_smile:

Firstly, great kudos on making sure you approach this ethically and professionally. Alot of people just don’t care and want it free to use the software illegally against the Licence Terms and dont want to hear any feedback regarding that.

As far as I remembered the licence terms simply state community cannot be used for commerical use, I dont recall a revenue cap. Maybe you are mixing the Community Version and the ‘Free’ version? I dont remember all the details of that one as I am usually on Enterprise.

UiPath does have stuff related to NGO’s being able to use their software, I tried to look it up recently but also couldnt find it properly, so if the org is an NGO then there might be some route for that.
Sorry thats vague, I’m also commenting as I am interested in this topic and want to capture any resources shared regarding this.