Quick Base Reviews

Well suited: Data management to internal team members who have access to a computer or need to send notifications to external parties. We use Quick Base to manage orders and communicate to our customers on the status of each order.
Less appropriate: As an interface to customers to allow for direct communication into Quick Base - users can access a survey page, but there are limits on engagement with the app not being user-friendly with the latest features like fingerprint reading or face ID.

Quick Base is well suited in the automation of daily tasks. It can streamline pipelines and increase productivity by making much of the busy work of development and coding simpler, easier, and trackable. Quick Base is also suited for breaking down barriers and silos, and helping work across teams function smoothly and simply.

Quick Base has been well suited for use in several different scenarios, but it requires a dedicated person who is capable of programming and managing the software.
It is excellent for simple lists but have found it not useful as a manipulative tool trying to derive comparative scenario's or data between records.

Quick Base can be used across almost any department or business function. We currently have solutions in place for warehouse management, shipping & receiving, production, human resources, maintenance management, guest management, asset management, purchasing (from forecasting to quote management), and more. We continue to build every day making new apps and improving existing apps.

Quick Base is very well suited for almost any kind of business application. The ease of development and robust capabilities make it perfect for customizing business applications to the specific needs of any business.

For intensive accounting and finance applications, I would recommend software that is designed specifically to handle these tasks. While Quick Base applications can certainly be designed for these purposes, the more specific financial programs will have functionality that is designed specifically for accounting and finance, and features that are extremely helpful in these areas.

It is useful for very basic ticket tracking and assignment, but for smaller teams, it does not have advanced real-time collaboration features needed for bigger cross-functional teams that need to interact quickly and often. There is no ability to drag and drop tickets to different teams and categories, and no ability to drag and drop files or view screenshots without download. It is a very primitive interface and technology compared to today's standards of functionality and design.

Quick Base is helpful where there are workflow-related activities, such as in an HR application.

We've used it for customers who have approached us to manage their invoices and other related info. In the Quick Base app, we are providing them all sort of features which might be needed in the future also. Charts, graphs and especially reports are far better than an Excel sheets. Through some of the formulas, we can make our app more user-friendly.

Well suited for small teams and tasks with small data sets. They have to work on the software to improve it to be more suitable for enterprise.

Quick Base is well suited to track the various stages of jobs/projects, but some of the reporting could be improved. They do offer a lot of reporting options, but I think they can do better!

Well suited for nonprofits and companies with very specific and different projects where something on the market just won't do. Not great if you need mobile usage.

Too hard to cancel subscription. After being a customer for 8+ years they are dinging us for one extra month.

Quick Base is very well suited for data collection, reporting, workflow, etc. However, if you need to have certain formulas that are easy to create in Excel, sometimes they are not so easy to replicate in Quick Base. Knowing your way through formulas definitely helps when building. Quick Base is well suited for such a variety of scenarios, that it is really up to the user on how far they want to go.

Quick Base is a great platform to use if you have multiple offices doing similar work, but each one is located in a remote location. As long as the end users have Internet access, they'll be able to access the app within QB. It also provides for better versioning control, since users are able to save a copy locally, something that Excel falls short with. The rapid application development available within Quick Base is also one of its very strong points since the app builder can usually make form and report changes on-the-fly to accommodate the app owner's request.

Quick Base is well suited to a company that can spend substantial funds on integrations, or if they only need data collection and are not concerned with the way in which the data is delivered. I would not recommend this to small businesses that are on tight budgets or that want reports that are easy to understand, look nice, or have a lot of requirements.

Quick Base is great for live data reporting for multiple stakeholders to access. It is great for highly detailed data and for viewing that data in various formats. It is not as good for the presentation of the data. The charts and downloadable reports would need to be adjusted for live presentation to those not familiar with the data.

Need a database to keep track of a person, place or thing? Quick Base works great.

Want a social media platform for marketing? Quick Base may not be a great solution.

Well Suited: Organizing workflows across different teams, where it is imperative that information be comprehensive and accurate. This is specific to project management and sales operations in our case, but applies to much broader business cases.

Less Appropriate: Tracking revenue over time- I've found that it tacks a bit of work to track year-over-year growth performance, specifically for our account managers who want to track how their business is performing.

We were using lots of spreadsheets which were becoming very large. By using Quick Base, not only have we created a better way to track these things, but also a more reliable, easier, and less error-prone system.

Suited for business processes where approvals are required throughout the process. Use of notifications or Dashboard Action Data Points ends internal phone calls and emails.

Quick Base is not particularly suited for databases that use algorithmic calculations to derive specific data relationships.

For us, Quick Base gets used when we want to collaborate across companies (or even distant offices internally), when we have a need for a database come up on very short notice, and/or when we expect the needs of the application to frequently change. Quick Base allows us to manage all of those things easily, and we have not found another solution that does so.

We don't use Quick Base if there are very complicated rules for data integrity, relationships, triggers, etc. We also don't use it to generate complex reports, although the data often resides in QB.

QuickBase is well suited for the following:
1) If the application involves many workflows
2) If the data are inter-related and needs sophisticated relationships between data
3) If there are different type of users who need a varied level of access to data

QuickBase is not well suited if
1) Charts and Visualizations are the primary objectives

We use Quick Base for both recurring and ad-hoc type reporting. For example, if I need to see what our current portfolio looks like I can just press a button and the report comes up for me to digest. This is something that would have taken much more time if it were in Excel and this why the tool is so valuable to us.
Where we get pushback from users is when they are trying to do weighted averages or complex formulas in a report that needs to go to management. It's not a financial modeling tool, but we want to get out of Excel as much as possible so it would be ideal to be able to do more formulas in the tool.

I can't think of anything that I wouldn't be able to use QuickBase for. In some cases, it may require an expert to build out exactly what you need, but you can easily build your own application to manage projects, warehouse inventory, CRM, approval processes, budget tracking, event management, event registration, sales funnel analysis, volunteer management, employee management, collateral library etc.

QB is good for time management, data management and accounts payable/receivable.