Quickbase Platform

What do you like best about the product?

Quickbase allows a lot of flexibility for creating custom Apps for different Use-cases. We've created apps for Tool and Inventory tracking, Marketing, and Project Management to name a few. The fact that there is a Mobile app also helps get the tools into more hands. If you really dig into it, you can customize it to exactly what you need.

What do you dislike about the product?

There is a little bit of a learning curve for the deeper development side of things. The positive of being a no-code creation is also a negative in that it's harder to implement programming deeper uses.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

We use Quickbase for a very wide variety of uses within our business. One of the main things is being able to convert archaic old inventory systems, and bring them to the modern age. What was once a single excel spreadsheet manually updated, is not a full application for inventory tracking. Our old way had a sometimes two week turnaround on an inventory check, and with the app it is believed to be down to one hour.

Quickbase has also helped improve how people here feel about the tools and technology they use. There was a lot of frustration with older apps that weren’t built well, but the new apps I’ve built in Quickbase have gotten people excited about what’s possible. It’s nice to see people actually happy to utilize technology to a fuller extent.

What do you like best about the product?

Quickbase is flexible and easy to use, even for someone like me who doesn’t have a coding background. I’ve been able to learn the system and build apps that meet our needs without needing deep technical expertise. The platform allows me to tweak and optimize based on what I’ve learned over time, which is helpful as our priorities shift. I also appreciate the training resources, like Quickbase University and the AI tools, which make it easier to build and improve apps. The ability to ask the system to create something and then refine it has been a big plus for me. It’s also great that Quickbase can scale with us as we grow and take on new use cases.

What do you dislike about the product?

There are some features that do require more technical experience and sometimes the resolution time on requests is longer than I would have anticipated. But generally speaking, this is not the case.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Before Quickbase, we didn’t have a centralized system to manage all the events we produce globally across various divisions. Our organization is very segmented, and data was scattered across different teams and systems. Quickbase has helped us pull all of our events into one database, which has been critical for exporting data to other teams across the organization and for feeding into tools like Power BI and even our internal AI program. It’s streamlined processes that were previously manual and time-consuming.

We’ve also used Quickbase to create a work order system that replaces email-based processes, making it easier for people to submit requests and track progress. Another benefit is the ability to onboard new team members quickly and get them up to speed with the apps we’ve built. As we continue to grow and align as a global organization, Quickbase is becoming a key tool for tying together operations and improving efficiency.

What do you like best about the product?

Fully customizable platform that can be configured based on business needs. User friendly and intuitive. Supported our growth as a small company through early years.

What do you dislike about the product?

We consistently faced challenges with account management. Turnover at Quickbase seems to be relatively high. We struggled to communicate with the team during time sensitive transition periods. Communication recently improved due to renewal review, but otherwise was always a challenge during our contract.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Customizable platform to our business needs; we have a unique model in mobility space that existing software/technology in the space did not capture.

What do you like best about the product?

Quickbase has been a solid tool for us, especially when it comes to managing the logistics of our food delivery program. One of the things I appreciate most is how well it integrates with other tools we use, like FastField. For example, we’ve been able to connect our bulk order forms directly into Quickbase, so every submission automatically creates a record in our Quickbase tables. It's very easy to pick up and lets us easily manipulate large amounts of data to gain incredibly useful insights on our processes.

What do you dislike about the product?

More customizability would be very helpful. We've found a lot of utility with the Code Page feature, but it lacks a lot of elements that traditional IDE environments have, like debugging and support for file structures. Pipelines could also be a little more intuitive. Otherwise, it has been a very easy to use and powerful tool.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Before Quickbase, a lot of our processes were manual and tedious. For example, we used to track inventory and deliveries with pen and paper, which was time-consuming and prone to errors. Now, we’re working on building out an inventory tracking system in Quickbase, and even though it’s still in the prototype phase, it’s already clear how much smoother things will be once we fully implement it. Another big challenge was cleaning up data from external submissions, like addresses and emails. We’ve had issues with incomplete or incorrect information, which required a lot of manual cleanup in Excel. With Quickbase, we’re starting to explore ways to automate some of that validation and reduce the amount of cleanup work. Overall, Quickbase has helped us streamline our workflows and start moving toward more automation, which is a big step forward for our small team.

What do you like best about the product?

The best part about quickbase is how user-friendly and interactive it is to be able to create your own apps and develop ways on how to create records and databases that can rely with one another to ensure data consistency within the whole system. There are multiple APIs/pipelines as well that allow Quickbase to collaborate with other systems.

What do you dislike about the product?

I'm just beginning with the whole developing part on the whole so it can get overwhelming to start even with all of the available resources for self-studying and other peers that provide support in giving more wisdom and knowledge.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

The problems quickbase is solving right now for our company would be giving realtime updates on our pending items and records so that we can close them. Communication is a vital key for success in our business to which quickbase is providing. Right now we're working with our partners in quickbase that are very helpful and responsive to help sync that data between both our systems (Quickbase and SAP) to reduce data redundancy and improve data consistency.