Item: Quickbase
Rating: 9
Author: Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Quick Base

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

The whole organization uses it. We store all our information on it. We use it for purchasing, sales, warehouse, inventory labels, production specs, QA issue recording, and a number of other things.

Pros and Cons

Pros

Easy data accessibility. Everything is linked together. It has never been easier to find the data we need.
Constant updates to keep up with the current features other tools have implemented.
Great support for integrating with other tools through multiple methods.

Cons

It would be nice to have a more interactive UI in line with the kanban report that was released. Things such as drag and drop records to update data.
More flexibility with purchasing options, such as any number of users and less expensive space options.
Being able to view multiple levels of cascading children in a single form.

We were using custom software that did much of what we wanted, however, creating new features or changing existing ones took a lot of time to implement and a full-time position to do it. We were also using Quickbooks in many departments, enough that we needed a 30 user license. QuickBase was able to take over many of the non-accounting features of Quickbooks and so basically only the accountants use QuickBooks now and everyone else uses QuickBase. Some of the features that we moved over include purchase orders, sales orders, inventory, lot tracing, invoices for manufacturing, and shipping.

Likelihood to Recommend

If you currently use Excel to store data that is frequently accessed by more then one person, QuickBase will save your company time, money and will greatly reduce or eliminate lost data situations. If you are looking to remove duplication errors with data that is entered into forms/orders frequently, QuickBase is also a great pick. If you want to automate specific data tasks with your data, QuickBase works well in that area. QuickBase is not a good replacement for an ERP or MRP, especially with advanced scheduling features, however, it has the capability to work well with both those systems. Quickbase has a good UI but it doesn't support many interactive UI features such as drag and drop to update records or updating data without refreshing the webpage.

Quickbase Feature Ratings

Integrations and Governance

Systems Integrated With

QuickBooks Desktop
Trello
Custom Software
QuickBooks Online
Microsoft SharePoint

Microsoft SharePoint
We store company files on a SharePoint site. Using a small amount of javascript and the Sharepoint API we were able to allow seamless file access in the browser directly from QuickBase. The integration was simple to implement.

QuickBooks Desktop and Online
It was a one-way sync of inventory, invoice, sales order, and purchase order data.

Custom Software
Two-way sync of scheduling modifications

Trello
Updating and moving a card when QuickBase data changed. They were all achieved using the QuickBase API which is easy to understand and use.

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