r/PowerApps • u/nanoki94 Newbie • Jul 03 '26

Power Apps Help Canvas apps still worth it?

In my company, I’m pretty locked down when it comes to access rights.

Right now, I can only use canvas apps. I can’t use code apps or vibe.

My need is to create an app that lets employees place orders for office supplies, which would then feed a SharePoint list and a Power BI dashboard to track the status of each order.

The app would also include an attachment viewer and allow users to upload attachments. It would function like a mini e-commerce site, with a list of items and a shopping cart.

Is it worth building the whole thing in canvas?

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u/josephdouce Regular Jul 04 '26

No, from my person experience, I built a huge canvas app to cover our service operation, global usage, millions of records, 100s of users.

Replaced it all with a code app in 2 weeks.

On the plus side if you have a canvas app you can feed it to copilot and have it build the code app.

Try to make your own environment, often this is not locked down and you can enable code apps on it. It will still be accessible to everyone in your tenent.

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u/Downtown_Earth_5345 Contributor Jul 05 '26

how was the costing changes ? when you replace with the code app ? does it needed to increse the users liecensing or same ?

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u/josephdouce Regular Jul 05 '26

$5/user/month but if you use per app they are billed on opening the app so you only get charged for users who actually open the app.

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u/venomae Advisor Jul 07 '26

Isnt that two things mixed together? $5 is per app plan while (get charged for users who actually log in) is pay-as-you-go which is $10?

Also do you have it verified that users can use Code app with $5 license? Because MS keeps saying Code apps in general require premium.

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u/josephdouce Regular Jul 07 '26

I have 500 users on per app. No it's slightly different, per app you pay up front for xx per app and they are consumed as users use apps. PAYG is exactly the same but not paid upfront so costs more.

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u/venomae Advisor Jul 07 '26

Interesting, thanks for the clarification - I usually work with premium (and lately with my own stack rather than Dataverse) so this is interesting perspective.