Quickbase has been a game changer for our department
What do you like best about the product?
Quickbase has been a great tool for us because it’s flexible and lets me build exactly what we need without having to rely on a big software team. I’m not even part of the software team at my company—I’m a controls engineer—but I’ve been able to create apps that solve real problems for us. I like that I can build something quickly, test it, and refine it based on feedback. It’s also been great for pulling in data from other systems like Sage and making it usable. For example, I’ve set up workflows where we can import massive excel sheets from engineering drawings, and Quickbase processes them in seconds. It’s saved us a ton of time and headaches. The ability to customize and automate processes is why I keep coming back to Quickbase.
Our team's entire workflow is in side quickbase so we are what you would call heavy users.
What do you dislike about the product?
The only downside I can think of is also what separates it from other software. It is highly customizable and once you get comfortable with the software you can build some beautiful apps and workflows....but that takes time. That makes it hard to demo to people who are not everyday users.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Before Quickbase, we were drowning in excel sheets. Everything was manual—tracking spare parts, managing inventory, and even comparing revisions on engineering drawings. For example, engineers used to spend four or five hours going line by line through a 4,000-line excel sheet to see what changed between revisions. Now, with Quickbase, they just import the file, and in 30 seconds, it flags all the changes—parts added, deleted, quantity changes, or even part number changes. That’s a huge time saver, and it’s caught mistakes that would’ve cost us hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Another big win has been inventory management. We used to lose millions of dollars in wasted inventory because we couldn’t track what we had. I built an app that scans our warehouse inventory and flags what’s available, so we don’t buy parts we already have. It’s streamlined the whole process and saved us money.
Quickbase has also helped us grow. It started with just my team using it, but now other departments like purchasing and engineering are seeing the value and asking to use it. It’s been a slow process, but the results speak for themselves. It’s not perfect, and I still have to fight some resistance from people who don’t see the value yet, but every time I show them how much time and money we’re saving, it gets easier to bring them on board.
Easy to use but hard to get in contact with
What do you like best about the product?
Easy to use without a computing background
What do you dislike about the product?
Turnaround time with customer support team
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Creating easy to use platforms that we can use across the board for all locations
Make it how you want it
What do you like best about the product?
Quickbase makes it easy to organize and customize things the way I need them. I like that I can adjust fields, headers, and reports without worrying about breaking anything. I recently was able to add a new column to group inventory by location and create a separate category column, and it didn’t mess up the existing setup. It’s straightforward to make changes, and I don’t feel like I’m going to screw something up. The dashboards are also really helpful. They let me see everything I need in one place, and I can tweak them to show exactly what I want. That’s probably one of my favorite features.
What do you dislike about the product?
Before Quickbase, tracking inventory was a hassle. Our monthly counts involved a lot of jumping back and forth between areas, and it wasn’t easy to keep everything organized. Now, I can group inventory by location and category, which saves time and makes it easier for the team to count items without running all over the place. I’ve also been able to update pricing and quantities directly in the system, so everything matches up better. Another big benefit is being able to track work-in-progress jobs separately from hard inventory. This helps us account for materials that haven’t been billed yet but are still part of our inventory. Quickbase has helped us clean up our processes and make things more efficient
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We’re now running a lot of our business tasks through QB, and it has made us more efficient and cost-effective overall.
Quickbase review from an Admin's perspective
What do you like best about the product?
Easy to develop business processes and workflows.
Simple, easy reporting and dashboards.
Connectivity between other data sources.
New AI capabilities
Consistent look and feel for end users.
What do you dislike about the product?
User interfaces are outdated.
Allows notifications and subscriptions to send emails with no post-tracking tool
Audit logging is improving, but there is still room for improvement.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We use Quickbase as the Mortor to fill in the gaps of our big block systems like, SAP, Sales Force, Dynamics, etc.
Quickbase review after Empower Conference
What do you like best about the product?
It gives a platform for creating workflows at one place. Integrates several tools into 1 place, easy to learn and create on Quickbase
What do you dislike about the product?
Pipeline errors occur very frequently, poor UI/UX look and feel, unable to customize the look and feel for our users.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We are using it for our travel and Headcount management, it is of great help to get a centralized repository, user access and protection, scalable solution
Robust software that we can scale with our growth
What do you like best about the product?
Standard tables and ease of creation. Ability to customize. Dynamic forms that assist our support staff in detailing procedures while gathering data. We have hundreds of support tickets each day.
What do you dislike about the product?
Response times to support tickets. Ease of locating clear/ concise product documentation/ job aids.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Tracking incoming support calls and emails from clients
Empowers content management and application creation without SQL
What is our primary use case?
I use Quick Base for management purposes. It functions as a content management system that does not require SQL. It allows me to store data, publish pages, and operates as a single-point solution for a no-code, low-code platform.
One of my projects involved creating applications for patients, where forms and pages can be created using different languages like React, with data stored in Quick Base.
What is most valuable?
One of the valuable features of Quick Base is its ability to function as a content management system without the need for SQL. It allows for storing data, publishing pages, and is a no-code, low-code platform.
I used it for patient applications, with forms and pages created in different languages such as React. I can view everything in one place on the Quick Base site. This provides a unified solution without needing different databases or pipelines.
What needs improvement?
The user interface of Quick Base is complex. It can be difficult to navigate, and ideally, it should be simplified to facilitate use by anyone, not just certified individuals.
There is room for improvement in front-end functionalities. I cannot deploy and use front-end features anywhere; they must be deployed inside Quick Base.
The introduction of hooks would allow for easier deployment elsewhere, such as GitHub. Additionally, their APIs have limitations, such as reliance on XML for backend APIs, which restricts their utility.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been working with Quick Base for two to three years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
I would rate the stability of the solution as eight out of ten.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
Quick Base has high potential to scale, and I would rate its scalability at nine out of ten.
How are customer service and support?
Technical support is really good, and I would rate it a nine out of ten.
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
I was previously working with OpenNebula and have now switched to a different vendor.
How was the initial setup?
The setup process is moderate, not simple, and it requires a quick walkthrough of the entire system. A technical person who has experienced a walkthrough can work on it.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
Pricing could be cheaper. I rate it around a seven out of ten. Mainly larger companies use it, which influences the pricing structure.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
A main competitor for Quick Base is Salesforce, along with other low-code, no-code platforms.
What other advice do I have?
I prefer Quick Base for its functionality. It allows front-end creation, exposes backend APIs, and doesn't require a separate database.
Overall, I rate the product an eight out of ten, and I can recommend it to others.
As for AI integration, initially, there was no AI use two years ago, however, now some aspects are being integrated. They're exploring how to improve AI on the platform. I rate the overall solution an eight out of ten.
Powerful Integrations, Needs Pipeline Improvements
What do you like best about the product?
I really appreciate the powerful relationships in Quickbase. It's much stronger than other local platforms I've tried. The ability to create relationships and use them to look up or summarize values, and then perform calculations, even across multiple tables, is extremely powerful and saves a lot on automation. Quickbase is also very fast and secure. It's very easy to manage and create things, even though some items may be a bit more difficult. Overall, it feels very simple and flexible. I can visualize and build pretty much anything I want, which makes Quickbase incredibly powerful for us. The pipelines, old automations, and new pipelines are vital; without them, we couldn't move data around. I also think the rich text fields and version three tables are extremely important parts that enhance the user experience. Managing and governing the realm is easy to use, and I don't have to be an IT expert. What I like most is that it just works. It works today, it works tomorrow, and it keeps on working. I love it.
What do you dislike about the product?
Performance of pipelines is probably the weakest link in Quickbase at the moment. The pipelines seem to have some limitation even though they claim there is no throttling. There is definitely throttling because pipelines just can't handle a lot of volume of work, which is a big drawback. Issues like requests on a pipeline step bombing out easily without a clear reason and maximum size exceeded errors contribute to variability in pipeline performance. Another issue is that the version three tables need all their bugs fixed because it is hampering user experience. Lastly, the forms need more customization and improvement. The way the buttons work at the top and how forms save and load is still clunky, leading to many user experience complaints.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I use Quickbase to prevent spreadsheet errors, integrate data, and create an enterprise tool that supports collaboration and standardizes processes.
Simple way to create a complex database
What do you like best about the product?
I love that it is an easy platform to create a very personalized database
What do you dislike about the product?
There are some quirks/bugs, but mostly they are minor.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It is making it possible to keep track of all aspects of our business in one place.
An excellent platform for quickly prototyping and delivering new data-heavy processes and workflows
What do you like best about the product?
The biggest upside is the platform's instant prototyping for data structures and templated reporting.
You can quickly scale up new data structures and processes to test workflows.
The general customer support is responsive to email/portal queries and questions.
The general interface is easy to use for non-technical users who have any experience with any web-based
The Proserve (purchased block of consulting hours) support is excellent. Quickbase has suite of experts with deep knowledge in specific focus areas - we engaged them around API usage, data validity and overall platform governance - they were engaged.
What do you dislike about the product?
The downside of the interface simplicity is the lack of custom controls, logic and validation - if you have complex data entry/data validation needs, you may need to look to other automation platforms to handle data validation.
Luckily, the APIs are near complete coverage and make data automation in and out of the platform easy. The platform scales well to many users and SaaS uptime was never an issue.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Quickbase is a great platform to quickly design and scale up workflows, projects and other low-code data-intensive initatives; it provides excellent data visibility for management and analysts. Quickbase is excellent for speed-to-market and iterative design; letting us handle integratins quickly w/o having to design a low-code from scratch.
