AppSheet - Such a great product.
November 19, 2019
AppSheet - Such a great product.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with AppSheet
U3A Port Phillip Inc is an organisation entirely staffed by volunteers (there wasn't a category of 0 employees, so I put in the number of volunteers instead).
We run courses for retirees in the City of Port Phillip (part of Melbourne, Australia). We have always kept attendance rolls for our courses. Until 2017, these were pieces of paper that became progressively scrappier and messier as the year went by. Now, we use AppSheet to provide a user-friendly front-end to attendance records held on Google Sheets.
We use dedicated Android tablets in our classrooms, and phones and other mobile devices for courses held off-site. AppSheet is so powerful and so well-designed that we have been able to create an easy-to-use system of electronic rolls (e-rolls) that are used and well-accepted by most of our 700+members, whose ages range from 55 to 90+.
We run courses for retirees in the City of Port Phillip (part of Melbourne, Australia). We have always kept attendance rolls for our courses. Until 2017, these were pieces of paper that became progressively scrappier and messier as the year went by. Now, we use AppSheet to provide a user-friendly front-end to attendance records held on Google Sheets.
We use dedicated Android tablets in our classrooms, and phones and other mobile devices for courses held off-site. AppSheet is so powerful and so well-designed that we have been able to create an easy-to-use system of electronic rolls (e-rolls) that are used and well-accepted by most of our 700+members, whose ages range from 55 to 90+.
- It has great design: You can build really attractive user interfaces, using icons, symbols and colours. This was particularly important to us.
- It's easy to use. If you have a fairly straightforward spreadsheet, you can create an app in a very short time
- It's flexible: We have a complex requirement, but it was still possible, with a bit of patience to produce the apps that worked the way we wanted.
- Sales and support staff are great.
- AppSheet has the functionality to create horizontal slices - rows of a spreadsheet. If there was an option to create vertical slices, it would have made it much easier to build our apps. We got around the problem by creating a spreadsheet with lots of separate tabs.
- We have over 50 tables in our spreadsheet. There are times when you want to make the same modification to every table. It would be very nice to be able to do some global changes.
- AppSheet has allowed us to keep attendance records electronically. That in turn allows us to proactively manage waitlists, and thereby get rid of one of the major sources of complaints from our members, about not getting into the courses they want to join. For us, that's a great return on the investment of time we put into creating the system.
Do you think AppSheet delivers good value for the price?
Yes
Are you happy with AppSheet's feature set?
Yes
Did AppSheet live up to sales and marketing promises?
Yes
Did implementation of AppSheet go as expected?
Yes
Would you buy AppSheet again?
Yes