Item: Airtable
Rating: 10
Author: Laurence Rivard

Overall Satisfaction with Airtable

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We are currently building our contacts database with Airtable. The relational tables with multiple choices of type fields are the reasons why we preferred to work with Airtable instead of softwares like Zoho. We are a very small organization so the flexibility of Airtable is exactly what we need for being more productive and keeping track of all our projects.

Pros and Cons

Pros

Fields : There are so many type fields you can use to enter different type of information. There's a type field for emails, phone numbers, for attachments. You can use formulas, have a check box field etc. I love the multiple select field type: it allows me to filter my database easily to find the exact information I'm looking for.
Linking to another table: This is the perfect field when you want to create your own relational database. For example, I have a table with all my contacts in one table, and for each type of contacts (members, supplier, organism etc.) I have another table with specific informations for each type. When I change something in one field, I know that this change is made in the other tables where this information is necessary.

Cons

Offline mode: there is no off line mode at the moment. I really hope this will be available soon.
Multi-level/conditional fields relationships: I would love to have relation between fields (There are relations between tables, but inside a table there's no such thing). The only way I found to have specific fields for a record is to create different views and play with the filters and hide/show options.

Return on Investment

Airtable is very affordable. We saved precious money by using Airtable instead of another CRM program. We're a non-profit organization, every dollar is important.

Alternatives Considered

Zoho CRM

Anything that we were able to do in Zoho, we were able to do it with Airtable (for free). Again, we're a small organization. Our scale may be the reason why it was easy to choose Airtable for our database.

Other Software Used

Teamwork Projects

Likelihood to Recommend

I really enjoy working with Airtable! For a small organization, the flexibility of Airtable is perfect. Moreover, the base can grow at the same speed as your business.

If you are a big organization, this flexibility can make it complex to use Airtable correctly. Keep it small scale: let your employees play with Airtable and let them show you what they can do with it. If every individual and every department of your organization understand how powerful Airtable can be for them, then it is way simpler to use it on a larger scale.

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