Power Apps Licensing woes - tenant Guests / survey non-anonymous

Throwing out a hail mary here...

My dept had developed a Microsoft Form to poll our clients on how we were doing. Then they discovered that Forms only allows tracking of the person taking the survey if they are in the businesses' environment. Anyone with an outside @ , and you have to use the anonymous mode. Which stinks b/c we want to be able to address the questions after, and sometimes our clients will use names like Mickey Mouse to attempt to circumvent identification if we ask who they are.

We actually have an external facing sharepoint site for clients using Guest membership- so long story short - I add users as Guests to our Tenant to grant access to the sharepoint site.

So the idea was to create a power App that they could go to the sharepoint site and use to answer the survey.

Welllll after I completed the app and embedded it, I started testing access. I found out that Guests are not granted the license to use Power Apps, so it's a no-go.

Security sure as heck will not be adding licensing for these guest accounts.

Next thought was power pages. But after reaching out to IT, I was told we haven't 'explored' that yet due to price.

Hoping for a workaround or a fresh idea... Have tried a bunch of things but nothing is working so far.

Even thought about somehow assigning them a # or ID when they click a link on the sharepoint that would then be assigned to their form so we knew who it was, but I wasn't able to figure that out.

Any thoughts or workarounds from the group?? I essentially have no budget, so even any external form software is out of reach.

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