Quickbase Platform

What do you like best about the product?

I really appreciate how easy Quickbase is to use and how intuitive it is. It's very robust, and if you get under the hood, it can do just about anything. What I find most valuable is that we can easily modify the applications we've built with Quickbase so that they constantly evolve to meet our business needs. The toolset is incredibly robust, we run our entire business on it. I'm impressed with how quickly we got Quickbase up and running, it only took about four months, which is incredibly quick for developing a bespoke application that runs the entire business. The Quickbase AI features that are now part of the base product are also impactful. It's ideal for small to medium businesses and is quick, easy to implement, nimble, easy to modify, and the perfect solution for a company of our size. The integration with FastField and the ability to streamline our post-job processes to receive solar grant payments has been really beneficial.

What do you dislike about the product?

Can't think of anything I don't like

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

Quickbase solves job costing, inventory management, project management, and job scheduling. Its ease of use and robust toolset allow us to automate various business processes, evolving with our needs and enabling us to run our entire business efficiently.

What do you like best about the product?

I use Quickbase to keep projects, tasks, and team workflows organized in one place. It makes tracking progress and sharing updates easier, keeping everyone on the same page without jumping between different tools. I like how simple it is to manage projects, track progress, and keep everything organized in one place. I really like how flexible it is and how easily it fits into our daily workflow.

What do you dislike about the product?

I find that some features take a little time to learn, and I think the interface could be more intuitive for new users. The interface could be easier for first-time users with simpler menus, clearer labels, and a more straightforward setup process.

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

I use Quickbase to organize projects, tasks, and team workflows. It tracks progress, shares updates, and keeps everyone aligned without switching tools. It helps organize projects, track tasks easily, and ensures we don't miss important updates.

What do you like best about the product?

Very easy to customize, works well and great customer support. Also great resources available online when trying to build/fix databases. Great. I mostly use it with Excel or Tableau - works great.

What do you dislike about the product?

It's expensive. Otherwise I really like it.

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

We are keeping track of our client data, inventory systems and more. We couldn't do it without a robust and user friendly database system.

What do you like best about the product?

I appreciate how Quickbase accelerates our delivery timeline with its robust native features that usually require extensive backend coding. The rapid application prototyping is exceptional; it allows me to deploy functional operational apps in a fraction of the time without building custom Python and XML modules from scratch. I love its seamless integration capabilities with our existing tech stack via an open REST API, and the native pipelines feature handles complex integration workflows and automation with ease. The granular access control is a huge time saver, allowing me to tailor permissions at the field or cell level, ensuring strict data security without needing to code custom permission architectures. The initial setup was incredibly easy compared to traditional ERP deployments, and getting the workspace running takes just a few minutes. We can have our first functional prototype in 48 hours. Overall, Quickbase is a powerful tool for rapidly setting up internal operational databases, offloading a lot of simple app requests from our core ERP developers.

What do you dislike about the product?

The area which can be improved is the rigid user interface. Its native UI feels quite dated and offers very little in terms of branding or aesthetic customization, restricting you from changing simple elements like font styles, colors, or background layouts. To deliver a truly modern, customer-facing frontend, developers often have to rely on custom HTML and JavaScript or external frameworks like React, which partially defeats the rapid delivery purpose of a low-code tool. Managing the lifecycle of complex automation workflows can be tedious. Within their pipelines feature, simply reorganizing steps can sometimes require rebuilding entire pipelines from scratch, which is highly time-consuming. Furthermore, it lacks native environment divisions for these pipelines, so there is no way I can segregate development, UAT, and production.

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

I use Quickbase to rapidly deploy internal workflow apps, solving bottlenecks and resource allocation issues. It offloads custom coding efforts with its low code environment, allowing me to quickly deliver functional applications and integrate with our tech stack using APIs.

What do you like best about the product?

We use it at Gusto to kick off our custom e-signature stuff. Quickbase doesn't sign documents itself, so we built a .NET API that it triggers through Pipelines. It sends over a JSON payload with the PDF and signer positions from our tables. The pipelines fire pretty reliably on record updates, which is nice. Once we got our placeholder data cleaned up, it scaled fine. It's basically our control center even though it wasn't built for this. Works well enough for what we need it to do day to day.

What do you dislike about the product?

Not having native signing support is annoying. We had to build an entire external API just to handle documents. Passing nested data through Pipeline JSON took forever to figure out the docs aren't great. Permissions across tables also got messy when different teams needed different access levels. It felt like we were fighting the platform sometimes.

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

We had no central place to manage signing data across files and signers. Now Quickbase triggers our API automatically whenever we need a request. It removed all that manual PDF handling and reduced errors in placeholder replacement. SharePoint filing is automatic now too. Saves us time and keeps things traceable for our compliance folks.