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Our employees/contractors need authenticated access to submit user requests.They may use max 10 times in an Year.Users needs access to Read only to Accounts,Read Write to Contacts and Custom Objects.Should I go for Customer Community Login based licenses ?
https://help.salesforce.com/apex/HTViewHelpDoc?id=users_license_types_communities.htm&language=en_US
What is the best salesforce license for these kind of users ?
I believe now they are offering them (Force.com-One App, Force.com App subscription, and Company Community User) in the same bucket under App Cloud flavor (and also as Employee Communtiy) and it's called Employee Apps and Community $25/mo and it provides Read/Write access to Accounts and Contacts, but none other CRM standard objects, and also up to 10 Custom Objects. There is also more expensive Apps Plus license $75/mo that allows to use 100 Custom Objects with each user license. More details can be found here - App Cloud Pricing. There is a link to the pdf file at the bottom where you can see the App licenses comparison in more details.
In regard of Customer Community - it can't be used by internal employees as we were told by our account representative when we are doing the research, and migrated to Force.com (aka App Cloud) platform.
Licenses that look like they meet your criteria are Force.com-One App, force.com App subscription, and Company community User. You may want to use the company community option since they only login a few times a year. This will allow access to Accounts, contacts, cases, and documents along with up to 10 custom objects and 10 custom tabs. Please see the link below for more information on license types. https://help.salesforce.com/HTViewHelpDoc?id=users_license_types_available.htm&language=en_US
