Overall Satisfaction with Quick Base
Use cases are varied including CRM, Project Management, Scheduling, Inventory Management and more. Many businesses come to Quick Base because they're struggling to run their business off of spreadsheets, off-the-shelf tools that don't work for their business, or across multiple unconnected systems.
For my small business clients, Quick Base is typically used across their entire organization. Larger companies tend to use Quick Base at a departmental level.
- 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.
While the platform is powerful and easy to use, building fast does not mean building well. I've worked on a lot of "home-grown" apps that were built by business users the wrong way. For more complex apps, an underlying understanding of how to construct an application is more important that how easy the platform is to use.
- Salesforce Lightning Platform (formerly Salesforce App Cloud)
Where Salesforce shines over Quick Base is that you can start with an "out of the box" solution like their Salescloud CRM that will work on day 1 and then tweak from there.
- Building and deploying business applications faster
- Improving our ability to drive insights from our data
- Solving a specific business challenge
- Building and deploying an application (or multiple applications) that meets our exact needs
From there, we continued to scale the app and were able to eliminate, replace, or integrate half of the other systems that we used. This was the foundation of an operational transformation that resulted in:
Over $250,000 in savings
Sped up cash cycles by 50%
Reduced error rates from 7% of jobs to less than 1%
Allowed investments in growth without increases in overhead
I integrated our website forms and scheduling software with Quick Base to automate our lead capture and appointment setting.
I added project management and task tracking functionality.
I added invoicing and expense tracking into the app and integrated it with QuickBooks to cut out hours of manual bookkeeping time each week.
I integrated Quick Base with Gmail to send out automated, personalized marketing messages to our customers that didn’t get trapped in Spam filters.
And we finally had a centralized source of operating data that I used to measure our performance like never before, leading to data-driven decisions that saved hundreds of thousands of dollars.