Filemaker Review
December 28, 2024

Filemaker Review

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Claris FileMaker

We use this to distribute scholarships to students and a way to organize how we are distributing our budgets towards admitted students

Pros

  • organize
  • reports
  • customization

Cons

  • it seems a little archaic
  • some of the tabs are hard to toggle
  • seems a little outdated
  • budgetting
  • enables faster scholarship decisions
  • able to organize students
the reports are great and ways you can customize however the platform seems archaic and the search function is sometimes difficult

Do you think Claris FileMaker delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Claris FileMaker's feature set?

Yes

Did Claris FileMaker live up to sales and marketing promises?

I wasn't involved with the selection/purchase process

Did implementation of Claris FileMaker go as expected?

I wasn't involved with the implementation phase

Would you buy Claris FileMaker again?

Yes

It is really good at organizzing how you want it and can show good reports to keep track of financial decisions we are making for students, however it does seem a little older software and sometimes is hard to toggle between reports

Claris FileMaker Feature Ratings

Low-Code Development
6.3
Visual Modeling
3
Drag-and-drop Interfaces
5
Platform Security
9
Platform User Management
6
Reusability
7
Platform Scalability
8

Using Claris FileMaker

30 - scholarship review and awarding , our scholarship coordinator and counselors in financial aid
30 - the finance team helps us manage the budget and uses filemaker
  • scholarship
  • budget
  • awards
  • scholarships
  • student awards
  • student scholarships
It is a little archaic and hard to operate sometimes

Evaluating Claris FileMaker and Competitors

Not Sure
  • Ease of Use
our office has been using it for years for other things so it was a seamless transition to use and apply to our needs
I was not in the say but i would like to see how it compares to similar products

Claris FileMaker Implementation

i helped test it and provided feedback but didn't formally implement it
  • Implemented in-house
  • learning the product
  • figuring out how it will apply to our neeeds

Claris FileMaker Training

  • In-Person Training
easy to follow along and was able to jump in right away

Configuring Claris FileMaker

It's in between but could be more complex due to how our institution is using it
N/a
No - there is no facility to customize the interface
No - the product does not support adding custom code

Claris FileMaker Support

never contacted support
ProsCons
None
None
i am not sure
We needed to figure out a search functions and they were able to help us immediately

Using Claris FileMaker

ProsCons
Like to use
Easy to use
Well integrated
Feel confident using
Unnecessarily complex
Inconsistent
Cumbersome
Lots to learn
  • awarding scholarships
  • seeing comparisons of awards
  • some of the layouts
  • searching

Claris FileMaker Reliability

it's most definitely does as we are a unique business to use this for scholarship awarding
mostly never issues and if there are they are resolved fast
for the most part but lots of error messages if you type something h correctly

Integrating Claris FileMaker

Relationship with Claris

i don't work with them but our coordinator does and no issues
anything we need fixed gets fixed/updated
n/a
not sure
n/a
n/a

Upgrading Claris FileMaker

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