Answers.Body: <p>Welcome to SE! You certainly don't want to create an event for either of those scenarios. You just need to look at a bit more documentation (daunting at first but well worth looking through it all to see all the capabilities of CiviCRM).</p>
  
  <p>For creating signing up as contact - the use profiles (see <a href="https://docs.civicrm.org/user/en/latest/organising-your-data/profiles/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://docs.civicrm.org/user/en/latest/organising-your-data/profiles/</a>)</p>
  
  <p>For the donation you should create an online contribution (see <a href="https://docs.civicrm.org/user/en/latest/contributions/online-contributions/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://docs.civicrm.org/user/en/latest/contributions/online-contributions/</a>)</p>
  
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Body: <p>If you want to create a form for someone to sign up as a contact or for someone to make a donation, do you create an event?  Or, are there forms somewhere to use?</p>
  
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Title: Event versus Form
ThreadText: # Event versus Form
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2020-02-10)
  
  If you want to create a form for someone to sign up as a contact or for someone to make a donation, do you create an event? Or, are there forms somewhere to use?
  
  **Tags:** civimember
  
  
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  ### Answer by username_1 on 2020-02-10. Score: 3
  
  Welcome to SE! You certainly don't want to create an event for either of those scenarios. You just need to look at a bit more documentation (daunting at first but well worth looking through it all to see all the capabilities of CiviCRM).
  
  For creating signing up as contact - the use profiles (see <https://docs.civicrm.org/user/en/latest/organising-your-data/profiles/>)
  
  For the donation you should create an online contribution (see <https://docs.civicrm.org/user/en/latest/contributions/online-contributions/>)
  
  
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