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What is Quickbase?

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…

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10 out of 10
March 25, 2024
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9 out of 10
December 18, 2023
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In my company we use Quickbase to solve many real time problems. We implement different applications using Quickbase to maintain the data …
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Full Customizable

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per month/billed annually

Business

Starting at $2,200

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per month

Team

Started at $700

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Entry-level set up fee?

  • Setup fee optional
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  • Free Trial
  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Starting price (does not include set up fee)

  • $700 per month
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Product Details

What is Quickbase?

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.

Quickbase Features

  • Supported: Dashboards
  • Supported: Workflow Management
  • Supported: Lifecycle Management

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Whether building an office tower, planning a solar grid, managing properties, or running a supply chain, Quickbase helps to bring data, systems, processes, and people together so users can see and control every detail of any job with less waste.

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Quickbase Technical Details

Deployment TypesSoftware as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationMobile Web
Supported LanguagesEnglish

Frequently Asked Questions

Quickbase starts at $700.

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The most common users of Quickbase are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees).
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April 20, 2020

Quick Base Gold

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Quick Base is used across the entire organization. From CRM to scheduling and work performance. It solves everything from the time a customer calls in for a quote on their project to the invoicing at job completion. It also monitors the status of the job for each step along the way.
  • CRM
  • Job Scheduling
  • Time Tracking
  • Notifications
  • Reports need to be beefed up. Setting up reports is not that easy.
  • Error reporting is sometimes vague. More detail about the error would make it easier to figure out what's broken.
Quick Base is well suited for running any business where data, KPI, scaling of the workforce, are important to collect the correct data and implement into readable reports that assist you in squeezing the most out of the operation.
Abigail Field | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Our program developed apps to automate a workflow across a distributed team and manage the application deployment process. This includes obtaining real time operational metrics, processes to manage exceptions, management of multiple environments, centralized tape library, contacts & management reporting.
  • Very agile & flexible. Apps can be developed very rapidly; it is also easy to make modifications to an existing app based on new requirements.
  • Multiple reporting formats. Can provide information quickly when adhoc requests are received from stakeholders for information.
  • Excellent customer service. The turnaround time to respond to questions is always very fast.
  • Easy access to educational tools via their on-line resource centre, Youtube & user community.
  • While 'Automation' is a very useful feature, performance is poor when processing a large volume of transactions.
  • The maximum number of dynamic filters in a report is 5. As a workaround a report is created with required filters as a result of this limitation.
  • Limited data storage for a table. While the reporting capability is excellent, workarounds have to be implemented to prematurely purge data & maintain the previous record status.
A centralized library in Quick Base was created to manage media received from external stakeholders. Prior to this, there were multiple Excel spreadsheets in different locations making it very difficult to determine the status.

Reports can be generated very rapidly in a very dynamic environment compared to MS Excel. The use of customized dashboards makes it easy to share information with other team members.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We're using it several areas: human resources to do employee reviews, inventory management, and some small miscellaneous applications.
  • Organize information.
  • Share information.
  • Alert people when information changes.
  • User interface for the applications can be clunky. Nice if it were easier to make application workflows simpler for the end-users by changes to the UI. Even something as simple as adjustable column widths on tables would sometimes be very helpful.
Great solution for fairly technical users where you can have some internal champions learn how to use it and create applications to help the business function more smoothly. Fairly cost effective compared with point solutions.
Lois Rockwell | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Our school uses Quick Base for several database operations, record keeping, tracking various operations, and accepting applications for various student and faculty activities throughout the school.
  • Run reports with a simple push of a button
  • User friendly
  • Easy to build apps
  • NA
Quick Base is well suited for record-keeping, record-tracking, and databases.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
It is currently being used to track projects and record time against those projects, as well as for software enhancements.
  • Tracking of software changes through the SDLC.
  • Ability to customize user interfaces.
  • Robust reporting capability.
  • It would be nice to be able to save the report from a page to not just Excel, but another file. Excel is limited for the number of characters in a cell and we sometimes run into an issue where the data is truncated.
  • Sometimes it gets lost when paging through multiple page and I'd have to start over.
  • Sometimes when the above happens, the left side panel changes or goes away.
Quick Base is very well suited for our needs to track software changes through the SDLC. The text boxes are not suited to include screenshots. Those have to be attached as separate documentation.
David Fradin | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I use Quick Base in a number of ways. One is to make reservation requests to rent my vacation rental at the Mana Kai Maui. Another use is to load into it the NAICS data, which enables tagging records and makes sorting and selecting a lot easier than in a spreadsheet. Another use has been to identify job skills required by product managers to be able to succeed. Another is tracking the status of multiple chapters and videos for my Wiley book entitled "Successful Product Design and Management".
  • Ease of configuration
  • Ease of making enhancements
  • Rapid report writing
  • Helping database managers understand how Quick Base's relational database features work and can be set up.
Anyplace where a quick to create and use database is useful. Frequently to replace error-prone spreadsheets. I have used it, for example, to provide a place for questions for my Wiley book. I have also used it to identify sized and target markets. Before Salesforce, I used it for multiple salespeople to track sales leads through the sales cycle.
April 19, 2020

A game changer!

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Quick Base allows automated engineering data processing and data exchange and management between different departments.
  • Easy to code.
  • Good app interconnection.
  • Excellent customer service.
  • Availability of a offline version.
  • User interface on the mobile version.
  • Iterative processes.
Quick Base is great for the creation of personalized management tools.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We offer Quick Base consulting and development. We use Quick Base as well as other tools to solve business problems and build custom solutions for businesses. Some things we do with Quick Base include process improvement, establishing workflows, reporting, and workflow automation. It is a really flexible program and you can build it into pretty much whatever you need for your unique business.
  • Easy to learn.
  • Training and documentation provided online, including Quick Base University self-paced courses.
  • Dedicated support team.
  • Dedicated development team adds quality new features and invests in product enhancements.
  • I have a hard time thinking of anything about Quick Base that disappoints me. It’s by far my favorite computer program of all time.
Well suited for business profit improvement of all types.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
It's been used to estimate projects, update shop drawings, and markQuick Basective, done, on hold, drop, etc. We use it for the whole company. The problem for me is there is no "for loop" or at least I can't find information about how to use it in Quick Base.
  • It's easy to understand, don't need to be an expert to use it.
  • Have a lot of people supporting the platform.
  • Make the charts more easy to customize.
  • Compare rows and columns in the same table to filter data. For example, know your top 5 clients.
Personally, I think Quick Base is great at project management, lead times for products, the time needed for the production of finish the product, etc. Where I think it is less appropriate is when you want to use it as a time clock for your employees.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
QuickBase is used by the entire Operations division of the organization which crosses multiple business units. Implementing QuickBase allowed us to quickly develop a scalable solution that can easily be used by multiple departments within the organization with little or no training necessary.
  • Lists/databases
  • Logging of changes
  • E-mail integration
  • Pop-up help
  • Short video tutorials
Rework: Today we get emails for rework from different areas. Before QuickBase, we had no way to track the number of claims, turn-around time, trends, or follow-up with the medical networks, and we had no reporting capability. With the QuickBase program, we can have rework submitted, tracked, trended, and followed up on with reports on all of these things.

Overpayment: Before QuickBase, overpayments were sent by email, emails were converted to Excel and reporting and follow-ups were manual. Reporting was limited. QuickBase again allows them to be submitted, tracked, and have reminders tracked while allowing for more reporting abilities.

COB Investigations: Before QuickBase, these too, were tracked via e-mail only, and there was no reporting or tracking. QuickBase now gives us the ability to track and report on productivity.
April 18, 2020

Happy API Customer

Gregori Lewis | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use it to house data that is passed between it and the system out employees use as a front end.
  • Pricing
  • API
  • Customer Service
  • Front End Customization
I think Quick Base is better suited when used along with its API. It's super quick and reliable. Only problems we've had with it where due to other systems or providers. I would like to see it improve in the flexibility of how it can display data to a user. There is some room for growth here and could really help set them apart even more.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We are using it as our CRM to house prospects and sales that feed to our Implementation Team to onboard new clients and to store client-specific information and documents for mass communication.
  • It is customizable so you can focus on what is important within your business.
  • Easy to use.
  • Helpful to all in the organization.
  • Would like notification emails to include a link to the client for easier access.
  • Would like the notification emails to have the client name in the subject line.
We use QB as a CRM for sales prospects, implementation, and ongoing service. We now have a process once a client is sold on our service, which was lacking before QB. It is easy to locate clients within QB and we are using it with regularity.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Quick Base is currently being used to organize incoming projects from clients with the focus being on providing metrics on how the projects are being handled from start to finish. It is being utilized by 80% of the company daily. We have been able to consolidate many of our previous processes to one system, instead of the 4 systems we were using previously to track this information.
  • Reporting on ANY given information criteria.
  • Organizing of data in an effective way that streamlines our daily tasks.
  • Customization is as easy as right clicking a form field.
  • For us, and we are a very specialized company, I would like to see more mapping features natively supported by Quick Base. Currently limited to 100 entries, limits us on how we are creating reports for our project managers.
  • The app for mobile devices is good, but it needs more tools for the administration of our Quick Base apps.
  • Price: Quick Base is an expensive solution when being used by medium-size or larger companies that will require a lot of logins.
Depending on the management pool trying to implement this solution, a roll out to a new company could fail pretty easily. We reached out to a known Quick Base architect to get us going. Once I saw how it all works, we've been able to customize and maintain our apps without any problem. Bottom line, it's a technical tool, the more you embrace it the more you will get out of it. It's a great tool for what we needed it for. Organizing 8000+ jobs annually has become much easier after creating the Quick Base app.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Across the whole organization. Addresses how we are paid—by what “code” or by certain grant funding. Allows us to submit vacation, professional, or personal leave requests.
  • Categorized codes: Able to be paid by a certain type of funding/leave time.
  • Emails you when you have to make changes to a timesheet.
  • Open 24/7 so you can access your account anytime.
  • It needs to be more user-friendly. Maybe it’s my organization and how they use Quick Base, but I had a hard time getting the hang of it for a while.
  • The phone app needs some adjusting. It’s very hard to use.
I think for the organization I work for Quick Base works great. There are several departments and we are all funded in multiple ways, so by being able to use codes for how those hours should be paid, we can accurately use that money for paychecks.
Swapnil Gyani | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We've developed our entire human resources information management system on QuickBase. The HR department uses this application for managing and storing employee records, while every employee of the company uses it for managing performance reviews, time and attendance, personnel requisitions, travel requisitions and so on.

Additionally, we've also built various project management and workflow management apps (both for in-house use as well as for clients) on QuickBase.
  • QuickBase allows you to quickly and easily put together a working data-driven application within minutes, without the need for programming or database administration expertise
  • If you do have programming and / or database management expertise, QuickBase allows you to develop extremely powerful functionality into your applications
  • QuickBase provides a great library of in-built apps that you can use and customise to you liking
  • QuickBase has a vibrant community of enthusiasts and experts who can help troubleshoot any issues you may be facing
  • QuickBase offers extremely limited options for customising the user interface of your applications
  • Inter-table relationships have some odd peculiarities and are not very robust
  • While QuickBase has offered a way to plug other platforms and services into their applications, that selection is very limited at this point and has some staggering omissions (Office365, for instance)
At the risk of over simplifying QuickBase's powerful toolset, if you currently use an Excel file that's shared by multiple users, QuickBase will offer a far more robust solution. A big part of this robustness comes from the ability to design custom reports that allow you to slice, dice and analyse your data very quickly and easily.

If UI / UX customisation is at the top of your priority list, you won't be happy with what QuickBase has to offer.
Ben Tiggelaar | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
QuickBase is very flexible and can be used in a variety of business use cases. We started off using the system as a typical CRM but then started to add other modules and workflow components. The customization Is really what makes this product special. Every business is unique and if you want to spend the time to model out your own workflows, automate tasks, and have data stored in one place, then QuickBase might be a good solution.
  • Support response is phenomenal
  • Create your own workflows
  • Reasonably priced HIPAA compliant solution
  • Continuously adding functionality and features (automations are one of their main objectives this year)
  • More integrations and ones that out of the box solve immediate business needs (ex: Mailchimp, keep a list of newsletter audience bidirectionally up-to-date)
  • Mobile view/app is still terrible as the system has been built for desktop (lots of data rows)
  • More examples of truly complex (best practices) applications for easier planning of development
It can be used in a variety of business types and sizes. I’ve seen larger organizations use QuickBase and also as a small healthcare business we have found its benefits as well. You need someone with some form of technical skill, or you simply won’t get that extra value that is inherent in customizing workflows. You may have to budget a consultant if you don’t have anyone in-house, which can be expensive. Routine maintenance, feature adds, etc. are a necessary part of QuickBase to ensure it’s being used at its full potential. These costs might even be greater than the subscription itself, but it’s where you will drive most of the value and opportunity.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use QuickBase as field inventory control, quoting, service tech dispatch, cloud-based paperwork storage, customer tracking. We have another system for corporate accounting, but it didn't address our need for a system to handle manufacturing and field service.
  • Ease of use, doesn't take a lot of training to be able to use our system
  • Provides good work flow
  • Easy to modify the program in-house as needed
  • I find the app difficult to use on a mobile device
  • It's a little pricey
QuickBase is well suited for its highly-customizable apps. QuickBase is very good for companies that manufacture equipment and do the field service themselves.
April 17, 2020

QuickBase Review

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
QuickBase is currently being used across the entire company. It allows me to keep track of projects in a relatively simple manner and helps to make sure everything is going according to plan.
  • Time cards
  • Project overview
  • Ease of access
  • PTO tracking for requests of employees beside yourself
  • Putting in a time card that extends beyond midnight could be easier
It works for what we need it to do. Allowing project leads to keep track of work being done at the end of every day and seeing the progress being made is a pleasant benefit of using QuickBase.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Quick Base for us is key. We use it to put in all of our clients' information for the solar power we are going to be applying to their homes or businesses. The company as a whole uses it daily. I as a sales representative have to record all of my clients information into Quick Base and then the engineering department goes in after I've submitted everything and is able to create an array of solar panels to fit each client's needs and wants and then show me what it will look like how much it will cost and how much energy it will offset.
  • Keep a my clients info to keep myself more organized
  • Lets my coworkers see what I have going on.
  • Lets my engineers do their job to perfection
  • Easy to use
  • I wouldn't change it
Honestly, Quick Base is well suited for any scenario. I've not come across a scenario where it wasn't appropriate.
April 17, 2020

Quick Base Review

Ken Williams | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Quick Base is being used to correlate diverse data systems into a unified view. We link physical assets to operating metrics to improve business decisions and direct resources.
  • Linking and updating from a variety of data sources and types
  • Editing existing records and making mass updates
  • Flexibility to make changes on the fly as users request
  • Native ODBC API without purchase of 3rd-party software
If you are looking for a product that allows you to be your own IT database manager and build your own relational database based on user input rapidly, then Quick Base is your tool. You don't have to be formally trained in data management, you just have to understand what business problem you want to solve. No waiting on long IT queues to make changes or getting lost in translation. Users can make the changes they need on the fly. This is the real value.
Madhu Shetty | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I have used Quick Base in the past as a project tracking tool. I also used it for resource allocation. I still use it in that capacity but my current company is also using Quick Base to plan our data capabilities and soon it will be used as a CRM. So my department and one other use it currently. Quick Base allows us to see the status of all our projects and where each project's data status is.
  • Flexibility- We can continue to change things and grow and evolve
  • Versatility - We can create new reports and fields and filters
  • Being able to permission things across apps is hard
  • Date filters are a little unfriendly
  • There is more, but I haven't gotten into the weeds fully
I have only used Quick Base for tracking projects for my professional services teams. But this is the third (out of 3) companies I have used it at.
April 17, 2020

Quick Base Review

Jakub Wójcik | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Quick Base to manage spare parts database for our applications.
  • User-friendly
  • Flexible
  • Adjustable
  • Sometimes there is a need of using sophisticated relations for easy applications
  • Working slow when too much data implemented
Quick Base is well suited to every kind of database. The software is transparent and easily adjustable.
Alexander Kennedy | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
QuickBase is a godsend. Three years ago I began what felt like an exhausting search for the right fit of CRM. Coming from Microsoft myself, I was used to big CRM data and tight information management. I literally checked over 15 potential options for a CRM type software. Some were great, and some fell short of my expectations. After several demos, and downloads I felt like giving up and offering a CRM/software management company a contract to build a custom CRM for our company.

Enter QuickBase.

At the time, QuickBase was still new to the market and I was familiar with Intuit as an accounting software business, so I felt relatively comfortable trying out QuickBase. QuickBase not only came in as the savior with a cape, I was able to implement company-wide protocols, procedures, and a solid strategy without having to attend a coding conference or school to write custom code. The option to do so was absolutely available, but with the ease of use, it did not seem necessary. QuickBase addressed our procurement bottleneck, customer management, sales, internal equipment, employee performance reviews. I could and can make anything that would make sense for our company to come to life with QuickBase.
  • Ease of use when starting from scratch. The ability to clearly understand how your data is being used, and how it links together is what really makes QuickBase a solid choice.
  • The community revolving around questions, real-life scenarios, and examples of fully built templates to gain inspiration and or use is a great stepping stone.
  • Price point is one of the best I have seen on the market.
  • I would like to see more integration with other vendors with employee time tracking, expenses from mobile apps
  • If there could be a functionality for a customer-facing portal or a front-end to interact with our data. We offer an online store that is linked through API to QuickBase, but we had to build the website to work with QuickBase.
  • Aside from the custom ability to create reports, I would like to see the ability to change the GUI in a drag and drop type functionality with Apps.
I am a firm believer that if you can think of a solution you can build that solution with QuickBase. The scenarios that may not be possible will likely deal with coding and adding in specific functionality as it relates to unique requirements per a specific application. If you are a single person business, this is a good way to manage data and have it accessible, however, the limitation is that you need to purchase at least 25 licenses for users. While it is not very expensive in relation to other options on the market, the need for 24 additional licenses may seem a little overkill until they offer a single license format for 1 or 2 member companies.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Quick Base is used across the entire organization, primarily as a workflow management tool and data storage.
It's incredibly effective at allowing on-the-fly workflow adaptation and changes to assist a rapidly growing organization.
  • On-the-fly workflow changes allowing for fast data change and updating.
  • The ability to push and receive information externally from other systems.
  • Has its own API which allows for easy integration from other systems.
  • Data storage size per table.
Quick Base is well suited for fast growing businesses where rapid system growth is expected. It allows for rapid process growth and development.
Quick Base, if not set up correctly can start seeing negative impacts when the business scales to a larger size. However, they offer extensive support and have trusted third parties to assist with building optimized apps.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I use Quick Base weekly for tracking work completed and time spend by different projects that I'm working on.
  • Keeps track of time.
  • Tracks the projects I am working on.
  • Calculates the total by project and total amount earned by week.
  • Allows the tracking of work by elements of the contract.
  • For my use, Quick Base works just great.
I only use it for tracking time and worked performed, and it is well suited for that purpose. I have no other knowledge on the use of Quick Base.
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