Airtable Saves Your Staff Time, Energy, and Stress
March 09, 2018
Airtable Saves Your Staff Time, Energy, and Stress
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Airtable
We are a small nonprofit with only a few staff members managing many events and tasks as a team. Until we found Airtable, we lacked any software to support our work and largely made do with the use of many Excel spreadsheets and individual task lists to manage all of the details of our work. This was particularly challenging for those staff members who were part time or working from home and needing support from full time employees when they were not in the office. We now use Airtable for Project Management, Event Management, and Client Management across our organization and have begun to use it for Strategic Planning purposes as well. We are able to use Airtable to clearly outline the workflow and timeline of each of our 200+ events each year from booking straight through to completion. Each team member now has a clear picture of their responsibilities and how their work fits into the big picture. There is easy oversight of each project for managers to confirm what tasks and events are running smoothly and identify where extra support is needed. The flexibility of Airtable allows us to adapt to the changing needs of each project/event. Airtable has also allowed us to keep better records on our clients and projects and keeps all the information we need right at our fingertips through its features of dynamically linking between tables and being able to store attachments right in a cell. Our events and office is running markedly smoother and all involved staff have commented that they feel more on top of their work because of Airtable.
- Dynamically link between tables
- Assign tasks to responsible parties
- Customer support
- Store documents and pictures within a cell
- Some of the higher-level functions are a bit tricky to self-implement
- Airtable saves our staff of 6 (3 full-time/3 part-time) an estimated 5.9 hours of administrative time per week.
- Airtable reduces training time for new employees by an estimated 10 hours.
- Since implementing Airtable, documented staff errors have reduced by 92.5% (from an average of 4.4/month to an average of .33/month).
Airtable is the only system that gives us the flexibility to both store information related to our clients and event details while also managing the workflow and responsible parties for the tasks associated with these clients and events. The way these two key components of our work can interface through Airtable is truly unique and very efficient. Compared to all other companies we researched, Airtable was the clear choice. Airtable is also reasonably priced, which is very important for a nonprofit's bottom line.