Quick Base Reviews

When we originally set out to create our human resource management system, we strongly considered developing it on the .NET platform. However, that would mean that we'd have to rely on a small team of experts for not only the initial development, but also future enhancements. This was one of the main factors that impacted our decision. We also looked at similar platforms (such as FileMaker Pro), but selected QuickBase because we felt that it offered the best features. I haven't used those alternate platforms, so I cannot comment on how they compare with 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 Ajax and other coding languages. Salesforce is also more expensive per user than Quick Base for comparable plan levels.

Where Salesforce shines over Quick Base is that you can start with an "out of the box" solution like their Salescloud CRM that will work on day 1 and then tweak from there.

MS SharePoint isn't as intuitive as Quickbase however it is similarly powerful and flexible. It's reporting capabilities are not as robust as Quickbase but for certain applications, it is equally suitable.

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 than Salesforce. Although Salesforce scored one big advantage...FISMA approval for Federal Government clients and I sincerely hope QuickBase will get there soon too. Because the Federal government deserves better.

We have not used or evaluated any other product. QuickBase was the first one we looked at and was the only option we considered. It was not necessary for us to look any further as everything that we were looking for was accessible to us through what QuickBase had to offer.

Although also a nice competitor, it is still very linked to the Microsoft ecosystem which we do not use that extensively. Also building apps and linking their data was more straight forward in Quick Base.

Quick Base has all the bells and whistles and is much better than the Oracle platform for sure.

Microsoft Access: Nearly impossible to use.
MySQL: Requires a great deal of training and knowledge.
File Maker Pro: Until recently a lack of cloud usage.
All spreadsheets: Hard to do sorts and selects, plus report writing.

We got lucky and choose Quick Base as our first selection and it worked great.

Before Quick Base, we used a few different tools to try and maintain the information on our projects. Such tools were Workzone, Quickbooks Online, and Excel spreadsheets. We've been able to utilize Quick Base 100% for our needs thus far, letting other subscriptions be canceled, which helps the bottom line.

I was comparing QuickBase to standard CRMs. QuickBase has customization creatures that I was seeking to store all my business data in one place and also hopefully build automations to help me run my business better. I am not entirely there yet but it is continually a work in progress.

We were using in-house built spreadsheets that were hard to keep up and use. We were able to use QuickBase to integrate the visual formats of those spreadsheets (customers liked the data presentation) into the database. It allows us to track a piece of equipment from birth to death and have every piece of info available to the customer.

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.

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.

We have looked at quite a few different options for CRM as well as POS replacements. Many factors led us to Quick Base as the final decision. Two of the biggest reasons were product cost and customization ability. Quick Base comes as a blank slate for creating apps and tables for whatever you can possibly need to create. We are in a specialty retail business, and no other system we could find gave us the ability to customize to our liking, without spending a whole lot more money. Quick Base takes a little work to learn, but once you start getting the hang of it, you can truly make it fit your needs almost perfectly. There are available add-ons and integrations that can give you all the functionality you could want.

Airtable was not nearly customizable at all. Anything that I wanted to do was easily found and it was very easy to use

I have yet to use any other products like Quick Base.

QB was more flexible and powerful. Basecamp had a nice GUI and DivvyHQ had some nice features, but they only picked off pieces of the total project management and content application. IN the end, the ability to build two apps (project tracker and content planner) and relate them with a couple of common tables made QB the easy winner.

We regularly evaluate other alternatives including Power Apps, Zoho, and others but because of the high reliability of our apps over the past 10 years and the new features regularly being added to keep Quick Base up to date, we still think it's the best choice for us and our clients.

We found Teams and Microsoft System Center Service Manager was good for the task but we found they didn't allow the flexibility that Quick Base did. We also found that Quick Base was user-friendly and easier to role out. My previous company spent two years scouting, trying the two programs listed and others but nothing compared to Quick Base. The previous company customized it but with my current company we bought the off-the-shelf version, and we have been just fine with it.

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.

We've tried many CRMs in the past, but the one-size-fits-all just didn't work for our business model. We looked at Zoho Creator but it wasn't as versatile in what fields you can create, how you create relationships, reporting, or user roles/management. Infusionsoft CRM had many automation features, but it still had cookie-cutter limitations on how the databases were set up. Once we tried Quick Base, we never looked back.

We did not evaluate competing products.

Prior to Quickbase, we utilized mostly internal tracking via spreadsheets and such. This is definitely a much better system as there is much less duplication in efforts or creation of tracking materials.

We have not evaluated other products. QuickBase came to our company via an acquisition where it was used as a CRM solution. Over the years, we have added many other use cases and since the product continues to meet our needs we have not conducted a search for a replacement product.