Quickbase vs. Salesforce Sales Cloud

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Quickbase
Score 9.2 out of 10
N/A
Quickbase helps users tackle any project, no matter how complex. Quickbase helps customers see, connect and control complex projects. Whether it’s raising a skyscraper or coordinating vaccine rollouts, the no-code software platform allows business users to custom fit solutions to the way they work – using information from across the systems they already have.
$700
per month
Salesforce Sales Cloud
Score 8.4 out of 10
N/A
Salesforce Sales Cloud is a platform for sales with a community of Sellers, Sales Leaders, and Sales Operations, who use the solution to grow sales and increase productivity. The AI CRM for Sales features data built right in, so that companies can sell faster, sell smarter and sell efficiently. Salesforce Sales Cloud is used for, and supports: Buyer Engagement Sales Engagement Enablement Sales AI Sales Analytics Team…
$25
per month
Pricing
QuickbaseSalesforce Sales Cloud
Editions & Modules
Enterprise
Full Customizable
per month/billed annually
Business
Starting at $2,200
per month
Team
Started at $700
per month
Starter
$25.00
Per User/Per Month
Professional
$80.00
Per User/Per Month
Enterprise
$165.00
Per User/Per Month
Unlimited
$330.00
Per user/Per month
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
QuickbaseSalesforce Sales Cloud
Free Trial
YesYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesNo
Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalOptional
Additional DetailsQuickbase offers three key plans, with feature distinction, simple and consistent entitlements, and a flexible licensing model, giving users the option of either user based or usage based licensing across all 3 plans.
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Community Pulse
QuickbaseSalesforce Sales Cloud
Considered Both Products
Quickbase
Chose Quickbase
Since implementing our instance of QuickBase back in 2014, we haven't needed to look into other products. At this point, we're not entirely certain another single product solution could provide us with the benefits we've seen using QuickBase. As long as they continue to roll …
Chose Quickbase
QuickBase stood out in front of them in terms of time to market, maintenance cost, and expertise required to build applications. QuickBase was better in terms of our standard requirements meeting against these other products. It was also better in terms of flexibility of the …
Chose Quickbase
These are some of the costly softwares, compared to Quickbase the user interface of these are not friendly and when it comes to Quickbase. QUICKBASE it has good and user friendly interface dashboard and anyone can learn without much training. Smartsheet is similar like excel …
Chose Quickbase
Quickbase was selected before I can onboard, but it's flexibility definitely suite our business needs.
Chose Quickbase
Quickbase has a pipeline, so we're trying to figure out how we can connect those two sides. Right now we're trying to flesh out which side is the data we wanna actually work with. That's the only other one I've used specifically that I know is very similar in the way you can …
Chose Quickbase
I like Quickbase better than both of them in terms of ROI.
Chose Quickbase
Quick Base stands apart as the only solution with the flexibility, reliability, and functionality that could handle all of our needs while remaining affordable. There are well developed and expensive options available but in many cases your business needs to adapt to adopt the …
Chose Quickbase
I have personally used Quickbase and Salesforce and am so much more impressed by Quickbase. Salesforce puts so little power in your hands, for any change you have to ask their developers and it comes with a big price tag and time lag. Quickbase is easy and nimble and you can …
Chose Quickbase
I do not have authority to make this decision, but I would choose QuickBase for quick and simple tasks.
Chose Quickbase
I've used Salesforce and Sharepoint in the past. Both require IT involvement and development resulting in more hassle and slow deployments. QuickBase allowed me to develop what I want when I want.
Chose Quickbase
Several times companies I have worked at attempted to get rid of Quick Base and move everything to Salesforce. Each time, they were unsuccessful. Salesforce.com is not low code and not very customizable. It was meant to implement processes the way it was designed. It doesn't …
Chose Quickbase
Again, all the alternatives out there are specialized to basically suit one aspect of the business. There are a couple platforms out there that are similar to Quickbase but we chose Quickbase for its simple design and because it was from a trusted company like Intuit so we knew …
Chose Quickbase
We like Quickbase because it is truly low code and easy to learn. We are able to quickly get new staff up to speed using the Quickbase University. The price is also much more reasonable than other options.
Chose Quickbase
At one of my previous jobs in 2008, we evaluated QuickBase and Salesforce and recommended QuickBase because it was much more functional and inexpensive than Salesforce. Over the years, both these companies have improved their offerings. Still I feel QuickBase has more features …
Chose Quickbase
Quick Base is faster at deployment and customization than Salesforce. Quick Base is more intuitive and has a better interface than SharePoint.
Chose Quickbase
Quick Base allows easy customizations and involves less maintenance and support. Also, application development time is very less compared to Appian.
Chose Quickbase
Quick Base is more flexible and easy to design. Also, it is cheaper.
Chose Quickbase
QuickBase is adaptable, easy to use and can scale quickly. With either option for a simple drag and drop solution or a more complex code written for a specific application, QuickBase is clearly the winner here.
Salesforce Sales Cloud

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Top Pros

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Top Cons

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Features
QuickbaseSalesforce Sales Cloud
Sales Force Automation
Comparison of Sales Force Automation features of Product A and Product B
Quickbase
-
Ratings
Salesforce Sales Cloud
7.7
237 Ratings
0% above category average
Customer data management / contact management00 Ratings8.5237 Ratings
Workflow management00 Ratings7.9228 Ratings
Territory management00 Ratings7.4182 Ratings
Opportunity management00 Ratings8.4231 Ratings
Integration with email client (e.g., Outlook or Gmail)00 Ratings7.4216 Ratings
Contract management00 Ratings7.0188 Ratings
Quote & order management00 Ratings7.5172 Ratings
Interaction tracking00 Ratings7.4202 Ratings
Channel / partner relationship management00 Ratings7.6164 Ratings
Customer Service & Support
Comparison of Customer Service & Support features of Product A and Product B
Quickbase
-
Ratings
Salesforce Sales Cloud
7.4
79 Ratings
1% below category average
Case management00 Ratings7.679 Ratings
Call center management00 Ratings7.363 Ratings
Help desk management00 Ratings7.366 Ratings
Marketing Automation
Comparison of Marketing Automation features of Product A and Product B
Quickbase
-
Ratings
Salesforce Sales Cloud
7.6
216 Ratings
1% above category average
Lead management00 Ratings7.8211 Ratings
Email marketing00 Ratings7.4181 Ratings
CRM Project Management
Comparison of CRM Project Management features of Product A and Product B
Quickbase
-
Ratings
Salesforce Sales Cloud
7.4
219 Ratings
2% below category average
Task management00 Ratings7.4209 Ratings
Billing and invoicing management00 Ratings7.056 Ratings
Reporting00 Ratings7.7172 Ratings
CRM Reporting & Analytics
Comparison of CRM Reporting & Analytics features of Product A and Product B
Quickbase
-
Ratings
Salesforce Sales Cloud
7.7
232 Ratings
1% above category average
Forecasting00 Ratings7.3201 Ratings
Pipeline visualization00 Ratings7.7220 Ratings
Customizable reports00 Ratings8.1229 Ratings
Customization
Comparison of Customization features of Product A and Product B
Quickbase
-
Ratings
Salesforce Sales Cloud
8.0
223 Ratings
5% above category average
Custom fields00 Ratings8.1221 Ratings
Custom objects00 Ratings8.1211 Ratings
Scripting environment00 Ratings7.9157 Ratings
API for custom integration00 Ratings8.0184 Ratings
Security
Comparison of Security features of Product A and Product B
Quickbase
-
Ratings
Salesforce Sales Cloud
8.7
225 Ratings
4% above category average
Single sign-on capability00 Ratings8.8192 Ratings
Role-based user permissions00 Ratings8.6198 Ratings
Social CRM
Comparison of Social CRM features of Product A and Product B
Quickbase
-
Ratings
Salesforce Sales Cloud
7.4
142 Ratings
2% above category average
Social data00 Ratings7.5141 Ratings
Social engagement00 Ratings7.3138 Ratings
Integrations with 3rd-party Software
Comparison of Integrations with 3rd-party Software features of Product A and Product B
Quickbase
-
Ratings
Salesforce Sales Cloud
7.7
192 Ratings
8% above category average
Marketing automation00 Ratings7.8188 Ratings
Compensation management00 Ratings7.7128 Ratings
Platform
Comparison of Platform features of Product A and Product B
Quickbase
-
Ratings
Salesforce Sales Cloud
7.0
203 Ratings
7% below category average
Mobile access00 Ratings7.0203 Ratings
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User Ratings
QuickbaseSalesforce Sales Cloud
Likelihood to Recommend
9.3
(516 ratings)
8.4
(369 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
9.9
(54 ratings)
9.0
(56 ratings)
Usability
9.0
(40 ratings)
7.5
(120 ratings)
Availability
9.0
(16 ratings)
9.8
(27 ratings)
Performance
9.0
(15 ratings)
9.0
(18 ratings)
Support Rating
8.7
(44 ratings)
5.7
(91 ratings)
In-Person Training
9.6
(4 ratings)
7.9
(11 ratings)
Online Training
9.9
(5 ratings)
9.1
(15 ratings)
Implementation Rating
9.5
(22 ratings)
1.0
(18 ratings)
Configurability
9.0
(10 ratings)
10.0
(2 ratings)
Contract Terms and Pricing Model
9.0
(1 ratings)
8.8
(9 ratings)
Ease of integration
8.4
(10 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Product Scalability
9.0
(15 ratings)
8.6
(28 ratings)
Professional Services
9.0
(1 ratings)
9.3
(8 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
9.0
(10 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
9.0
(10 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
QuickbaseSalesforce Sales Cloud
Likelihood to Recommend
Quickbase
I no longer think that Quickbase is the way of the future. They do not fix major bugs in a timely manner, and are releasing basic functionality behind a paywall. I believe that Enterprise Level Tier should be given certain things, like SLAs on Support and up-time. However, as a low-code no-code platform the majority of the accounts, "builders", and users are not going to be able to justify the cost of an Enterprise Tier Plan, and won't be able to use the features that Quickbase continues to advertise.
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Salesforce
Salesforce Sales Cloud is, in my experience, well suited to large B2B businesses who are driving demand and lead generation, and tracking customers through the funnel. It is a system we needed for a long time and has made a huge difference. However, I think it would have been more appropriate for a smaller business / a business who sets this up earlier on. There are great advantages to having historical data. It is really useful for allowing all commercial teams to work together, including sales, new business, marketing, client success etc. However, it relies too much too often on human error. If more things were automated and simpler, perhaps with AI queries, it could be easier to use
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Pros
Quickbase
  • Rapidly bring new ideas to life
  • Great authentication and authorization system out of the box
  • Connects with many major third-party services (via Pipelines)
  • Reporting and Dashboards are awesome
  • Excellent emails notification system to keep us in the loop when data changes
  • Intuitive UI for building forms and reports
  • Nice playground to test new ideas
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Salesforce
  • Logging notes: SF makes it easy to log notes in the timeline or static notes that live in an easy-to-see spot for longevity.
  • Logging activities: It's easy to post a call, text, email, etc.
  • API data: Once connected, SF is critical to automation, such as website activity, login activity, pages visited, etc., which saves the Customer Success side time in understanding account activity.
  • Custom fields: you can add custom fields to really personalize your experience. We use quite a few and it's brilliant.
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Cons
Quickbase
  • I'd like to see a link on email notices that take you directly into said notice. On an app that only has 1 or 2 email notices firing, there's no issue. However, we have some tools that are so complex that they have about 20 email notices firing at any given time based on the action users take. In this case, if we have to go in to modify a notice, we have to guess or scroll down the long list of notices to see which one we need to customize. It would be great if Quickbase had the URL of said notice somewhere at the footer of that notice so when Administrators click on it, it takes them into the exact notice they need to update.
  • When filling out or reviewing a lengthy form, I'd like to see the Save & close button, as well as a Save & next option at the bottom of the form rather than having to scroll back up to the top of those forms just to click on those choices.
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Salesforce
  • I have hard-coded the auto-update of the phone number format and state format from some codes shared by the community, but I do not know where to do it. I cannot reset it either.
  • It is unclear what functionalities each version has. We use the enterprise version, and it seems we can only have one design of the pipeline. But different business segments would have very different sales cycles, and hence, pipeline tracking would be different. It would be nice to have this available in our version.
  • It seems I cannot create a report to pull notes logged at the account levels.
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Likelihood to Renew
Quickbase
For our use-case of QuickBase, there really aren't any other products out there that can offer us the same out-of-the-box solutions they provide to us. We're also so integrated with it in our daily processes that to move away from it abruptly would cause mass chaos, so it's going to be renewed for at least the next several years.
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Salesforce
There are days when I wish we hadn't switched, but I know that if we put in the time, we will get to where we want to be with the software and that it has many more capabilities than anything else we looked at. However, the amount of time and onboarding we need to do is also far greater than we realized/were told when we originally bought the product. They told us we should hire onboarding support, but at the end, after we had already reached our budget maximum for this, so it's been slower than we had hoped.
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Usability
Quickbase
Quick Base has done everything we have asked it to do and then some. Our original goal was to have one system for CRM that encompassed both the sales process and the customer management. We have gone w-a-y beyond that with analytics, project management, system bug logging, and historical effort reporting.
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Salesforce
Salesforce has been designed on the basis of "Clicks, not code". So anyone willing to learn the Salesforce user interface (which is quite good as far as management software platforms go) is able to become a Salesforce user or even a Salesforce administrator. You don't have to know coding language to work in the Salesforce environment. Also, Salesforce has one of the best software training resources (Trailhead) that I have ever encountered. It is free to all, easy to use, and most importantly it is interactive. No scrolling through endless text in a user manual. There are hands-on modules and related videos interlaced and through it all you earn points and badges to display your level of learning.
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Reliability and Availability
Quickbase
Once we did get Quick Base configured and customized it was reliably available when we needed it. We may have had one or two occasions when the product was inaccessible but those were few. The greatest challenge with its availability was its difficulty with integrating with our systems.
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Salesforce
Salesforce is always available securely from any internet-capable device anywhere in the world, UNLESS you choose to set security measures so that ONLY trusted IP ranges may access the system at certain times of the day. It's all about choice and flexibility with Salesforce products.
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Performance
Quickbase
Some of our tables that hold over a million records are starting to perform poorly, with some summaries taking over 20 seconds to load. This may be an indication that it is best to archive old data when reaching large volumes like this.
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Salesforce
Salesforce performance in general is excellent. "The cloud infrastructure beneath Force.com has been fine-tuned over the past 10 years. It powers nearly 100,000+ businesses running more than 185,000 applications that 3 million users count on every day."
Points per Salesforce -
1) Multitenant kernel - With a multitenant platform, each business that uses the app doesn’t have its own copy. Instead, all businesses share a single copy and then customize it for their specific needs.
2) ISO 27001 certified security - You can’t compromise when it comes to enterprise-level security. Force.com is road-tested and trusted by nearly 100,000+ companies, including many of the world’s most security-conscious organizations, such as banks and health care providers.
3) Proven reliability - All Force.com apps run on world-class data centers with backup, failover, and disaster-recovery facilities. Force.com has had a proven 99.9 percent uptime record for years.
4) Proven, real-time scalability - Force.com is used by many of the world's largest enterprises, including Cisco, Japan Post Network, and Symantec. Applications can automatically scale from a few users to millions of page views, as needed.
5) Real-time query optimizer - You need fast access to your data. The Force.com query optimizer delivers under 300ms response time, at a massive scale.
6) Real-time transparent system status - You can always see real-time system performance, availability, and security information at trust.salesforce.com.
7) Real-time upgrades - Unlike traditional software platforms, our upgrades never break your customizations, code, or integrations. We upgrade the platform for you 3 to 4 times each year. As a result, you’re always on the latest version, with access to the latest features, performance, and security enhancements.
8) Real-time sandbox environments - With a single click, you can create copies of your applications, configuration, and data in separate environments for development, testing, and training.
9) Three global production data centers and disaster recovery - Force.com runs on three geographically dispersed, mirrored data centers with built-in replication, disaster recovery, a redundant network backbone, and no single points of failure
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Support Rating
Quickbase
If you utilize the community, the support is amazing. Unfortunately, I find their actual support system a bit underwhelming. They don't seem to have a great process for interacting directly with an issue and often sweep significant issues under the rug by categorizing them as "Enhancement" ideas or legacy items.
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Salesforce
The overall support has been good. More and more features are being released quite frequently. Very small features are also making big difference in how the tool can be adapted and used better. If there is anything we need or are stuck, the support team sets up a call and helps in resolving the issue/provides workarounds.
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In-Person Training
Quickbase
It is very easy to get training from their University portal and still if we don't know their, then we can ask their support too.
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Salesforce
I attended two training sessions. I would rate them a 4 as an advanced user. It was very basic – great for someone new – would give 8+ for new person.

I had 3 years of experience at the time. I skipped basic and went onto advanced and still not helpful. A lot of it was best practices that didn’t feel relevant for our business
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Online Training
Quickbase
Quick Base already is having a separate portal of providing training to customers and it is very easy to use and updates as per the new features added in to the application
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Salesforce
I have gone through multiple. The content that’s delivered is quite basic – I wish they had more advanced training.

We are grandfathered into premium support plus training. We get unlimited access to instructor led and online training for free. We have taken advantage of this
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Implementation Rating
Quickbase
I was not directly involved with the initial account implementation, only a bystander. For the app I directly implemented for my department only, I wish I had know to create an app diagram first. I don't remember if that was suggested. I think that would be a great help tip tool when a new app is created, to have a page with a check list of what is needed or how to get started. If you are a regular app builder, then you can bypass it or have the ability to turn it off in the app settings.
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Salesforce
Just from an organizational standpoint - we standardized our data prior to moving to Salesforce. But we essentially standardized it wrong. That's created a big disgusting mess for us know that I'll have to deal with as the Admin. Be sure you think through use cases prior to doing something like that - seek outside opinions on how the data will work best, especially depending on what else you're going to integrate with Salesforce.
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Alternatives Considered
Quickbase
Well, there's a plethora of low-code tools out on the marketplace and, you know, there's a reason that we've decided to partner with QuickBase because it has all the right balance of the ability to integrate with the ability for a citizen developer to create apps successfully. So if you look at something like Zo Ho's low-code offering, for example, yes, there are some similarities there, but they're really dependent on all of their other licensed products to get you where you want to be, where with QuickBase you have the ability to truly create something custom.
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Salesforce
The thing that puts Sales Cloud above the top is its simple user interface, which is easy to interact with. The visuals and automation are also quite amazing. Given its attention to data and customer relationship management, Sales Cloud is tough to beat. Of course, Microsoft Dynamics integrates nicely with other Microsoft products, and Monday is a tool everyone is familiar with, so it is hard to compete with those.
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Contract Terms and Pricing Model
Quickbase
No answers on this topic
Salesforce
Salesforce is the most widely used CRM system. Professionalism tends to increase when things go wrong for market leaders. Salesforce considers us as users because they own the market. Having all of our data in one place and all of our teams working within Salesforce. Anyone who uses Salesforce is impacted by it, even if they don't.
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Scalability
Quickbase
It has evolved really well with our company, but there is a hard limit to the table size that has begun to affect us and not let us grow. The table size limit is set at 500 MB and we have had to jump through quite a few hoops to be able to get by.
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Salesforce
Salesforce sales cloud implementation can give you the desired outcome for your business. Its workflow, approval, sync, and file-sharing features help automate the process. The Macros feature helps business to shorten their sales cycle. Sales Cloud also allows businesses to make the right decision with its real-time business insights and analysis.
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Professional Services
Quickbase
For clients we use Qucik base to develop application
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Salesforce
Using Salesforce.com has made my daily routines more efficient and simplified the manual tasks I had to perform independently. I can now access data from any device, online or offline, and provide better guidance to my team about the forecasts provided by the built-in artificial intelligence (AI). A chat with a Salesforce support specialist would be great. The knowledge base has a community forum where Salesforce users can ask questions and learn more about the product.
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Return on Investment
Quickbase
  • ROI is HUGE. Our company saved over 3.5 million in one year alone based on developments that year in Quickbase that saved time for many teams
  • Less user error - implementing automations and standardized workflows has led to less user error as was previously seen by maintaining spreadsheets or Smartsheets
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Salesforce
  • All tools we've implemented with Salesforce had a pretty quick positive ROI with the exception of CPQ & Billing. That was a very large project that I would only suggest for businesses with many SKUs that tend to be packaged together.
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