Quickbase

Generate file numbers.

Upload docs.

Customizable.

I'd like to be able to customize just a few files instead of our entire catalog of many thousands of files. Instead, when you add a field or delete one, it gets added or deleted from all files.

The drop-down menu lists do not appear alphabetically. That means each time you have to run your eye up and down and all around till you finally find the one you want. Slows everything down. Also, the names on our drop-down menus change from time to time but you can never delete one since that will delete that name from older files as well. Eventually this will become totally unwieldy.

Everyone has the access to the same information at the same time

All edits made can be instantly viewed and reflected on

It has great control over users access and permissions

Great ability to use different applications for different needs in the company

Customizable with layout as desired and adding personal code and scripts

Some times, it is difficult to search through some tables and applications

Grid edit needs to be used in a slightly more integrated way with APIs

Speed is a great concern for us, and when Quickbase is slow or the database is dragging along, we're hurting.

Keeps things organized.

Easy to read.

Cumbersome back end.

Hard for beginner to build an app effectively.

Ease of development - low/no code.

Dynamic forms and workflows.

Great technical support.

Would like to see more robust built-in reporting or dashboard capability.

I like that I can build apps myself, without requiring a third party to help, as I know the processes of my company the best, and I am easily able to tweak Quick Base to however it will best display the information we need.

I like that you can easily link multiple tables together and be able to pass fields and information between them.

Quick Base allows me to send automatic reports to my team as well as notifications when a certain action occurs, which automates a lot of tasks that were previously manual.

I still am unsure if Quick Base is able to handle a lot of tasks that our current POS system does, such as hierarchies/tiers of customers, discount/special pricing for particular accounts, etc.

Consolidate all the information in one place, whether it is from human resources, accounting, clients ... there are no limits!

Reporting is great: create comprehensive reports for quick decision making.

It is easy to use for any position within the organization, simple and user friendly.

Language: add Spanish for Latin America.

More dynamic filters: actual limit is 5.

It explains what the scope of the project is.

It can be consulted and updated by different people.

It shows the progress of the project.

It should be more flexible in organizing the text.

It should allow for more notes to be shown in the summary page.

It should run more quickly - sometimes pages take forever to load.

Can be completely customized to the needs of your business.

Can be implemented at a fraction of the time and cost of a custom coded solution.

Can easily scale with the changing needs of businesses.

Has limited "in-the-box" integration options.

Automated workflows aren't very comprehensive.

BUT will be rolling out a new tool called "Pipelines" to improve on automation & integration.

Looks nice.

Different apps allow for diverse functions.

Connection between apps gets finicky.

It's immensely flexible and customizable, within each app and across different apps. The ways that you can use it are limited only by your ability to think about what you need. I haven't got much into script building, but have had some developers do that for us and that has extended its customization.

Reporting and notification. Again, customizable to the nth degree. If you can ask a question about the data in your app, you can build a report, notification, etc.

Reliability -- it's always working. Always up.

The email function. When you email reports and records to people, it bccs people so no one can see who else is getting it.

The search. It's almost too powerful and so when it returns records, it brings back so much that it's hard to go through. Granted, there's the advanced search, but it would be nice to have a down and dirty search that returns based on one or two main fields and returns results from newest to oldest. (We've built a report that does just that).

Can track time spent on a project down to the minute, but no one here uses it that way, as far as I can tell.

Provides ample room to describe activities performed on assigned tasks.

Allows simple emailing of time sheets to client.

Does not permit accurate time recording when entering a start-stop time span that crosses the midnight hour. The total logged time on QuickBase then goes into negative numbers. That's bizarre and throws off the amount of time worked on a project.

The log of time-punches changes every Sunday night at midnight, and not sure that's entirely a good thing.

Uploading an Excel sheet

Easy division across site

UI

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Quick Base has a in incredible customer support system that provides reliably quick response times for all sorts of questions from basic user instructions to more complicated account management.

The ability to add users is easy, intuitive, and doesn't require complicated software installation.

Quick Base is a very flexible platform that allows users to dream up very personalized solutions and program them without a computer science degree.

The challenging part about adopting Quick Base for new users or app builders is the instruction. Every app is different so maybe Quick Base could start an online webinar or course work that walks users step by step on its capabilities and functions.

Quick Base should add customization feature for background color schemes and layouts so that users can get the tables and graphics to better match their own corporate standards. For example, not everything matches Quick Base's purple and white.

They could add for admins a user engagement graphic so that those who manage the realm can easily determine which apps are active and which are abandoned.

Reports load very quickly

Relational database logic

Ease of integration with 3rd-party apps

Form builder UX is outdated.

Reports are fairly static. Real-time edits on reports would make more competitive to Google Data Studio.

"Live" updates to data would make more competitive to Google Sheets.

Manage more than a project (or customer) in one centralized app

Great control dashboards

Very easy to customize

Different views for different cluster of users

Easy import/export of data and report

A more precise control on data

More customizable in terms of presentation (CSS of screens and so on...)

More types (or user created) of reports

Reliability. We build apps, they work well and kept working flawlessly for 10 years.

New features are being released all the time.

Flexibility in building and modifying apps

English only, I would like french language support or at least French accents.

More flexibility to create visually appealing forms

Calculated fields aren't updated dynamically when editing a form with detailed records (ie: line items in an invoice form)

Tracking and Trending Inquiries

Loading attachments for contract documentation

Routing work between teams

Easy ability to send notifications to non licensed users

Secured or limited form submissions from non licensed users

Scheduled reporting to non licensed users

3rd-party add-ons

Nice GUI and tools to build apps

Secure using features in QuickBase with MFA

Cost model as we want to go to 1000 users but too expensive

Should allow subdivision, like at the top is company "a" and below are all my other compaines to share data between without having to have a different domain.

QuickBase should allow companies to build apps in QuickBase that clients can buy without being a QuickBase client so I can start small businesses and sell cool web apps. There is no way for a startup to create an app and sell it to the public.

Customization - It is fully custom and can accommodate any needs your business requires in every facet of the application from table structure to user roles and access

Ease of Use - We have an older sales team that is very behind on technology, but with a 15-minute introduction, we've seen a 100% adoption rate, even in reps who insisted they wanted to keep using their pencil and paper methods.

Scaling Setup Difficulty - If you're just trying to do something fairly simple in QuickBase, it's incredibly simple to create. If you're trying to do something a little more complex it's harder to create, but the difficulty scales linearly with the complexity of the design, which is very good design.

Reporting - Reporting capability is extremely limited using the canned reporting models given by the system to the point where I simply export the data to Excel to manipulate and analyze it

Requires Understanding of Relational Table Database Logic - Although the understanding of the logic is extremely base level, you do need to know how tables work together; this may be a very difficult product to use in a setting where the application design team doesn't have a background in systems or Excel.

Record tracking

Inventory tracking

Order tracking

Page building and form building can get a bit complicated at times

Format is limited in ability to customize

Clear communication reporting

Easy user interface

Accessible charts and pipeline review

Doesn’t sync well with other outbound software

A bit manual compared to other CRMs

Can be slow on occasion

Can spin up basic grid and forms

Database creation and creating relationships are fairly simple

User profile management, security, roles

No reporting tool worth a darn. Charting is rudimentary.

Need to dip into HTML code way too much. Hacking is required too often and will bite us at some point.

Automations can be hard to create and follow. Pipelines may help.

Sandboxing is rudimentary.

Form designer is not very flexible, requiring compromises in user experience.

Reporting

Integration

Connecting

More Business Related Functions like Profit Margin Calculating

More intuitive report creating

Easier way to create notifications

Create new apps quickly and easily

Customize roles for tailored reports and workflows

Implement automations quickly and easily

Connect and manage your entire business in one place

Easy to connect API and import logic

Does not do queries like SQL. If you want to run a report across apps that do not have connected tables, you will need to export and use a different program.

Cannot list sub-table data in a comma-separated list easily. For example, if you have a table of Car Manufacturers related to a related table of Car Models, you cannot simply list all the car models for a given manufacturer in one comma-separated list field.

Project management

Quality tracking

Risk management

Email Notifications

Schedule of Automations