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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Quickbase

    Score8.8 out of 10
    N/AQuickbase 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 Lightning Components & Developer Experience

    Score8.5 out of 10
    N/AThe Salesforce Platform is designed for building and deploying scalable cloud applications with managed hardware provisioning and app stacks. Lightning Web Components are used by developers to build reusable UI components.

    $25

    Per User Per Month

    Pricing
    QuickbaseSalesforce Lightning Components & Developer Experience
    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
    Plus
    $100.00
    Per User Per Month
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    QuickbaseSalesforce Lightning Components & Developer Experience
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
    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 Lightning Components & Developer Experience
    Considered Both Products
    Quickbase
    Chose Quickbase
    Out of the box softwares come with out of the box assumptions that are difficult to mold your workflow to so companies generally adapt part of their workflow to how the software works and then when that fails revert to doing it outside of any system. Quickbase does the opposite …
    Incentivized
    Chose Quickbase
    While Salesforce has a much larger market share, I prefer Quick Base when it comes to custom app development. Even with Lighting, many of Salesforce's back-end tools needed to customize forms and processes are not actually low-code and require a pretty good understanding of …
    Incentivized
    Chose Quickbase
    Could not find Forms.com. Simpler to build and deploy. Better forms designer. Handles more common business scenarios.

    Salesforce is too rigid and inflexible. It requires too much technical knowledge for citizen builders.
    Incentivized
    Chose Quickbase
    We looked at about 15 solutions to fit our needs and did not have much luck with out of the box real estate softwares. For the price and functionality none of the products we looked at were even close to Quick Base. Salesforce can be customized and manipulated to do a lot of …
    Incentivized
    Chose Quickbase
    We selected Quick Base for its ability to easily be customized to our needs and its ability to have dynamic reporting.
    Incentivized
    Chose Quickbase
    We have evaluated Salesforce App Cloud and we find that Quickbase requires less technical expertise with comparable deliverables at a lower price point.
    Incentivized
    Chose Quickbase
    Salesforce is really the only platform that stacks up to Quickbase. However the cost is astronomical in comparison.
    Incentivized
    Chose Quickbase
    Unless you have a SQL server database attached to your SharePoint site, SharePoint is not even in the same league as QuickBase with regards to functionality.

    Salesforce.com, verva crm, and service max are designed for specific processes within the customer resource management …
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    Salesforce
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    98%
    Would buy again
    141 Answers
    89%
    Would buy again
    25 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    98%
    Delivers good value for the price
    122 Answers
    91%
    Delivers good value for the price
    21 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    99%
    Happy with the feature set
    142 Answers
    89%
    Happy with the feature set
    25 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    99%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    106 Answers
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    12 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    95%
    Implementation went as expected
    107 Answers
    82%
    Implementation went as expected
    14 Answers
    Features
    QuickbaseSalesforce Lightning Components & Developer Experience
    Platform-as-a-Service
    Comparison of Platform-as-a-Service features of Quickbase and Salesforce Lightning Components & Developer Experience
    Feature
    Quickbase
    -
    Ratings
    Salesforce Lightning Components & Developer Experience
    7.2
    30 Ratings
    7% below category average
    Ease of building user interfaces00 Ratings7.030 Ratings
    Scalability00 Ratings8.028 Ratings
    Platform management overhead00 Ratings8.024 Ratings
    Workflow engine capability00 Ratings8.027 Ratings
    Platform access control00 Ratings7.028 Ratings
    Services-enabled integration00 Ratings7.028 Ratings
    Development environment creation00 Ratings7.025 Ratings
    Development environment replication00 Ratings6.023 Ratings
    Issue monitoring and notification00 Ratings7.026 Ratings
    Issue recovery00 Ratings6.025 Ratings
    Upgrades and platform fixes00 Ratings8.028 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    QuickbaseSalesforce Lightning Components & Developer Experience
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    Score8.5 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
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    Score5.1 out of 10
    IBM Cloud Private
    Score9.6 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Planview PPM Pro
    Score8.9 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    QuickbaseSalesforce Lightning Components & Developer Experience
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.5
    (521 ratings)
    8.9
    (36 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.9
    (54 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Usability
    8.4
    (40 ratings)
    8.2
    (9 ratings)
    Availability
    9.0
    (16 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Performance
    9.0
    (15 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    7.4
    (44 ratings)
    8.1
    (15 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    9.9
    (4 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Online Training
    10.0
    (5 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    9.8
    (22 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Configurability
    9.0
    (10 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    8.4
    (10 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    9.0
    (15 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Professional Services
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    9.0
    (10 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    9.0
    (10 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    QuickbaseSalesforce Lightning Components & Developer Experience
    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.
    Incentivized
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    Salesforce
    If you have a large customer base and a large amount of data on each of your customers, it is really strong in creating personalized content that your salespeople can use in their pitch meetings—and then setting up workflows for automated for lifecycle journey creations to automatically go out to customers.
    Incentivized
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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
    • It has a very smooth integration with Salesforce and third-party tools, ensuring easy tracking of policies and assets.
    • It also has impressive security features like used-based permissions and encrypted data.
    • Everything can be managed from a centralized place which saves a lot of time.
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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
    • It takes a while before it recognizes bounced emails.
    • We get so many notifications from a single action. Not sure if this can be modified in the settings though.
    • Error messages are sometimes unclear which makes it hard for us to identify the problem.
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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.
    Incentivized
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    Salesforce
    No answers on this topic
    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
    It's very good, but it's still living in a little bit in an older design aspect, but I think a lot of it is about to come out, just hasn't quite gotten there yet. Still a little clunky from a you have to know it to know it or you know it to use it. It takes a little bit of training to get into it. It's not quite the, anybody can come in and start using it immediately, type feel.
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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
    No answers on this topic
    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.
    Incentivized
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    Salesforce
    No answers on this topic
    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
    I am not an administrator so there may very well be outstanding Support and I am just not privy to it. On a user level it's hard to gauge the effectiveness and responsiveness of Support because nearly everything has to go through an administrator
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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
    No answers on this topic
    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
    No answers on this topic
    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
    No answers on this topic
    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
    We were previously using an older version prior to it becoming Salesforce Lightning Platform so we were well adverse on the advantages of using a CRM, to begin with. It made sense to convert to Salesforce Lightning Platform after we were given a free trial of the platform. Certain reps were chosen to experiment with it and from there a decision was made to move forward. We've been customers ever since.
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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
    No answers on this topic
    Professional Services
    Quickbase
    For clients we use Qucik base to develop application
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    Salesforce
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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
    • Better visibility of Accounts and Contacts interactions makes it easier to maintain during employee transitions.
    • Tracking of current jobs and relating them to past jobs is very useful.
    • More efficient use of Sales Reps time.
    • Sales Managers have good visibility into how their people are working.
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