Quickbase gives a lot of power to power users and exactly the right amount of power to regular users
December 29, 2021

Quickbase gives a lot of power to power users and exactly the right amount of power to regular users

Rob Anderson | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
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Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Quickbase

Quickbase was used as a client and prospect management database. We housed all of our CMS, DNS, hosting, and other solution usernames and passwords for 200+ clients. We loosely used some tables for project tracking to know at a glance where all new projects were in the pipeline. In a similar fashion, we used a set of tables to keep track of open proposals and the last time a prospect was contacted. We also tracked the reason(s) a customer decided to leave us. All tables were linked to a client's "Company" record so we could always easily grab any data related to a specific customer whether they were still a customer or not.

Pros

  • Easily creating relational database tables
  • Simple and intuitive way to generate reports
  • Granular permission control on a per user basis

Cons

  • Better or more intuitive project management tools
  • User interface feels a bit unrefined
  • It's easy to generate reports but once you have them it's nearly impossible to change the formatting.

Do you think Quickbase delivers good value for the price?

No

Are you happy with Quickbase's feature set?

Yes

Did Quickbase live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of Quickbase go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Quickbase again?

No

We switched to Airtable and there are a few drawbacks that I immediately noticed with the new application. Airtable offers far less robust report-building options. Quickbase feels like the table-building aspect of Airtable but on steroids. Airtable is much faster to edit table data with the default view, but Quickbase offers far better reporting views.
Most of our team used Quickbase as a glorified password manager. It performed this task incredibly well. The rest of our team used Quickbase for tracking new project statuses, which it didn't do particularly well. It's not a proper project management tool (or at least our implementation of it wasn't) so we found it lacked the robust tracking we desired.

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