Free version: Custom fields or not?

Free version: Custom fields or not?

I activated my free CRM last night.  The documentation from within my CRM instance says I get 25 custom fields:   https://www.zoho.com/crm/help/erutaef321.html#custom-fields


However the button to create custom fields is not available.   THEN i see a post from 10 days ago where a Zoho employee is pointing another user to a COMPLETELY different set of documentation that says we get no custom fields.

What's the story here?   If we don't get custom fields, I won't waste my time and look for another solution to demo.