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Databases made simple and intuitive
What do you like best about the product?
Airtable allows me to make databases without having to pretend to be a rocket scientist. The interface is simple and intuitive, yet personalization is possible. It allows me to create more than one database and have an overview of all the ones I have made. On top of that, they synch across all my devices and allow me to collaborate with colleagues.
What do you dislike about the product?
There is not much to dislike because it does everything I want from a database. The app never crashes, changes get saved automatically and the only hiccup is the difficulty in copying and pasting rows of information from Excel for example.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Airtable allows me to keep track of donors. The biggest draw is how several databases can be linked, so the options are limitless. My whole team can easily access all the donor information and make updates so we always know who our biggest donors are. It has allowed us to target donors individually.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Don't hesitate, just get it!
Using Airtable to track community partner relationships, activities, communications
What do you like best about the product?
My team spent over a month researching our options for an affordable database solution for our college to track relationships, activities, and communications between our community partners and student/faculty courses and projects. We selected Airtable because we can easily customize the database to do exactly what we want, rather than other pre-packaged CRM tools that did not fit our needs.
What do you dislike about the product?
Airtable has met our long list of needs, but we're still figuring out a few items. For example, we know how to create pivot tables using the blocks feature inside the Pro version, but we have not yet learned how to cleanly export the pivot table results (other than copy and paste). Maybe it's possible, but this is one area where we could not find an answer in the otherwise rich documentation.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Airtable provided a flexible, collaborative relational database framework that is relatively easy to set up and train others to use, as long as you have a clear idea of what you wish to accomplish.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
First, list your organizational and data needs. Second, try out different tools and compare how well they fit your needs.
Airtable - stellar software, so many uses
What do you like best about the product?
Ability to easily publish bases and collaborate at the field level. I no longer need a variety of other tools when Airtable has such a broad offering to help me run successful projects from start to finish. The Snapshot feature is really easy and gives peace of mind that your data is backed up.
What do you dislike about the product?
Manual copy/paste functionality is a bit slow and sometimes does not trigger on the first attempt.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Curriculum mapping and inventory tracking of assessments. Airtable makes it easy to collaborate with multiple ways to share complex data.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Why maintain Slack, Basecamp, and others when you can get all of your work done in Airtable? Airtable makes it so easy to collaborate and is a phenomenal time saver.
Excellent Usability
What do you like best about the product?
Ease of use, intuitive interface, design. Easy to be an admin, great integrations and API.
What do you dislike about the product?
Just a little slow to respond when applying for non profit status.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Creating a vital but easy to use database, possibly project management.
Simple mobile spreadsheet
What do you like best about the product?
Lightweight, mobile integration, versatile uses, multiple view types
What do you dislike about the product?
Mobile app has limited functionality, could use more support in programming functions
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We are using Airtable to track project progress, to support our product reference library, track to-dos, and as a sign-up sheet solution at events.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Airtableis great for simple straight forward needs. It will not support complex database manipulation needs, but is a great simple and light weight way of sharing information.
Excellent Tool for Collaboration
What do you like best about the product?
Airtable is a super flexible and robust space where my colleagues and I can collate and retrieve info quickly and clearly. It super for sharing out and gives everyone access to the up to the minute info which is crucial for our department.
What do you dislike about the product?
I wish there was a way to get help on the phone for customer service and the proprietary vocab airtable uses to describe basic spreadsheet components get very confusing when using the web-based help tools.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Airtable helps us get info out of individual emails and into a space where everyone can see it and use it. It is streamlining our communications internally and externally.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
This is great tool for teams.
Very useful for any org if you have the budget
What do you like best about the product?
Very easy to use, and combines functionalities of a relational database with the easy-to-use nature of Google sheets.
What do you dislike about the product?
Unfortunately, the pricing model is not flexible for client facing use. Additionally, your data is somewhat stuck in airtable as the CSV export option is very limited.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Great for a nonprofit that is always gathering and analyzing data. Anything that used to be done with Google Sheets or Access can be done with airtable.
Great for keeping on top of multiple projects
What do you like best about the product?
Airtable makes it easy to take a birdseye view of all the projects you have on the go, while also being able to easily dig into the detail. It's also really beautifully designed and fun to use!
What do you dislike about the product?
Haven't found anything yet! Just my own time limitations at learning to make the best use of all the built in functionality.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Am more able to keep on top of multiple marketing and comms activities, and track interdependencies.
Database for Dummies
What do you like best about the product?
Actually, Airtable is a brilliantly engineered online database for smart people that see value in organizing people, resources, activities, and absolutely anything else you can think of. I love the ease of use, the flexibility of the platform, and the freedom to include everyone within your sphere either via free user, or public form.
What do you dislike about the product?
Airtable is wonderful, though not perfect. I've attempted to create database tables ("bases" in Airtable speak) with a large number of records. Unfortunately, a base with a large number of records tends to slow the platform down dramatically, so much so that I broke my database into many bases so that each base has no more than, say 100 records. This has worked well for me, though I can imagine this may not be a solution for everyone.
Another significant drawback is the lack of a "Search Across Bases" functionality. Over a period of time, I have assembled quite a store of resources within Airtable across perhaps 25 or 30 bases. There are times when I am unable to recall the exact base within which I recorded a certain resource. With a "Search Across Bases" functionality, I would have not problem finding anything and everything I have quickly and efficiently. Unfortunately, such a search functionality simply does not yet exist in Airtable.
The third Airtable drawback is the Airtable Iphone/Ipad app not having the ability to truly mirror the various views available in the online version of Airtable. For instance, I use "Groups" extensively on Airtable's online version, though "Groups" are simply unavailable on my iPhone. It's actually a big deal as I am unable to view the data in the same way while I'm out and about.
Another significant drawback is the lack of a "Search Across Bases" functionality. Over a period of time, I have assembled quite a store of resources within Airtable across perhaps 25 or 30 bases. There are times when I am unable to recall the exact base within which I recorded a certain resource. With a "Search Across Bases" functionality, I would have not problem finding anything and everything I have quickly and efficiently. Unfortunately, such a search functionality simply does not yet exist in Airtable.
The third Airtable drawback is the Airtable Iphone/Ipad app not having the ability to truly mirror the various views available in the online version of Airtable. For instance, I use "Groups" extensively on Airtable's online version, though "Groups" are simply unavailable on my iPhone. It's actually a big deal as I am unable to view the data in the same way while I'm out and about.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Airtable has helped me organize all of my resources, budgets, activities, and people associated with my startup. I have found there to be huge benefits in using a mind-mapping app like Mindmeister in conjunction with using a database app like Airtable. Mindmapping initially helps me to get all of my thoughts out of my head, for instance, and creating database tables (or bases) thereafter within Airtable allows me to structure my data with more precision and clarity.
I intend to upgrade my Airtable account to take advantage of the advanced functionality available in the Pro version. I do believe that Airtable should make available the advanced functionality on the Plus version for a limited number of people within an organization (for small startups like my own). Had they done so, I would be a paying customer already. In any case, I am grateful for Airtable's functionality and Free plan availability.
I intend to upgrade my Airtable account to take advantage of the advanced functionality available in the Pro version. I do believe that Airtable should make available the advanced functionality on the Plus version for a limited number of people within an organization (for small startups like my own). Had they done so, I would be a paying customer already. In any case, I am grateful for Airtable's functionality and Free plan availability.
Helps us keep track of spare parts
What do you like best about the product?
Airtable has a nice balance between power and simplicity. The supporting documentation and video tutorials make it straightforward to set up something that gives us far more power and flexibility than a simple spreadsheet.
What do you dislike about the product?
Support was a little slow to respond at times, however this was possibly worsened by being on the other side of the globe.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We use it to help log spare parts and consumables as part of a AV production rental house. We also use it as a "to-do" list for staff which saves us running multiple systems.
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