Portals Minimum Users of 15 is too many

You can submit that as a feature request on the product feedback page.

In the meantime, you can look at 3rd-party portals, which are often less expensive than Airtable’s portals. The most popular 3rd-party portals that are currently available for Airtable are: Zite, JetAdmin, Softr, Glide, MiniExtensions, and Noloco.

Alternatively, your read-only Airtable users (which are already free) can edit your Airtable records for free by using Fillout’s advanced forms for Airtable. Fillout is 100% free, and it offers hundreds of features that Airtable’s native forms don’t offer, including the ability to update Airtable records using a form.

Fillout gives you a formula that you add to your Airtable base, which automatically creates a special URL for each record. Read-only users in Airtable are free, and they are allowed to click on URLs. (They are also allowed to click on buttons that take them to external URLs). So they would click on the the URL (or button) while looking at the record, which would take them to that record in Fillout.

I show how to use a few of the advanced features of Fillout on these 2 Airtable podcast episodes:
- Using Fillout to update an existing Airtable record & create an eSignature approval process with PDF file creation.
- Using Fillout to create an order entry form with line items.

Hope this helps!

If you’d like to hire the best Airtable consultant to help you with anything Airtable-related, please feel free to contact me through my website: Airtable consultant — ScottWorld

A 15-user minimum could make Portals hard to justify for smaller teams that only need a few external users to start. A lower entry tier, even 3–5 users, would make it much easier for businesses to adopt early and scale into the higher plans later.

Smaller Portals top-ups would also help small teams that want to expand their outside consultants using a portal from 14 users to 16. Adding 2 users costs as much as adding 15…