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Robust and flexible - Airtable is a dream!
What do you like best about the product?
Airtable's spreadsheet look and feel gives users an immediate comfort that no other database software offers. The intuitive nature of the software has also meant a much shorter learning curve. The bases we embeded in our website are very easy for our membership to find what they are looking for quickly. And, sharing a link to a form so that new data can be uploaded has simplified and shared the workload.
What do you dislike about the product?
The Page Designer needs to be more robust. There should be a price point between Pro and Enterprise or a way to add storage and # of records for an additional fee.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We were looking to provide the storage and query capabilities of a database to our organization at a cost effective price. Airtable solved our problem at a much better price point than the competition. We were using another database which took a programmer to set up and maintain. Airtable can be set up and maintained by a volunteer with very limited technical training.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Give Airtable a trial run. You'll be impressed!
Great for team collaboration
What do you like best about the product?
The team I work with uses Airtable to coordinate the work we do on a 5 year project. We have many teams and each uses a unique table within the overall workspace, providing everyone with access to what the other teams are doing.
What do you dislike about the product?
Right now we are working to identify team members who need Pro access and those who do not. At this time, in order to upgrade the entire base to Pro, every member who edits or comments would incur a cost. This is somewhat problematic for us since several staff are commending and editing on the free version and would like to continue doing so.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Our team is distributed around the US and abroad and needed a way to communicate the work that was being done in a systematic way. Airtable has provided us with this platform and helped us work from the same page, saving us time and energy.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
We have looked at and tried other work flow platforms including Trello, Asana, Basecamp. Right now Airtable is meeting the most of our many needs.
Replaced Zoho Creator for us
What do you like best about the product?
The database that looks like a spreadsheet is amazing. In minutes, I had moved over data from Zoho Creator to this app. Support is awesome!
What do you dislike about the product?
Currently, you cannot save a sort to a view, but that is a bug that the company is aware of and resolving.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We are able to create visualizations of data in our bases immediately upon request.
Best tool for an evolving organization
What do you like best about the product?
I like the flexibility of this tool which allows us to adapt to the constant evolution of our organization and to grow with us
What do you dislike about the product?
Nothing in particular, perhaps the difficulty to link the bases between them
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We are a shared governance organization in constant evolution. Airtable allows us to manage this evolution, to build ourselves as we go the tool adapted to our needs at each step without depending on a developer
Airtable - Great solution to support our Not-for-profit fundraising and relationship management
What do you like best about the product?
We are just getting underway with Airtable, but were very excited when we learned about the product. We are a not-for-profit emergency services provider serving 5 towns in southern Vermont. We have used spreadsheets to manage data to support fundraising and our relationship with residents and businesses in our service area. That approach gave us some basic functionality, but we have been looking for a much more robust option for several years. Most avenues we pursued were more expensive than we can support in or budget and more complex than we need - requiring too much time and knowledge from a largely volunteer group. After working to understand Airtable and develop a plan for implementing and using the product - we are confident that Airtable will be a great solution for us. Airtable will allow us to dramatically improve the value we can gain from our data while allowing more key players ways to use that data to support our organizational goals. Airtable will support several different teams/committees - allowing each to meet existing goals and develop new, more ambitious goals.
What do you dislike about the product?
As with any project of this kind - getting started is likely the toughest task. Our historical data requires a great deal of work to get it in shape to make the move to Airtable. But - that is one of the primary reasons we are making the change.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Primary use is to support our fundraising efforts. Our problem has been that our old approach made it very difficult to gain any value from our data, and periodically we had to undertake major efforts to update key info (like mailing lists). Our fundraising work was suffering because we lacked a real understanding of where our money was coming from, trends in our fundraising makeup and we had a very limited capacity to reach out to important donors. We are just in process of implementing this new approach, but feel confident that our data will be much better organized, be accessible to more members of our team and will lead to better strategies for successfully engaging with our communities.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
A great product for those used to spreadsheets for maintaining data, but with the need to go to the next level. We were considering some sort of database or packaged fundraising support platform - but cost and complication were real issues. Airtable provides the functionality we need, and we expect that it will be far more user friendly for more of our team - and will be cost effective enough for our not-for-profit to be able to handle.
Airtable has helped us streamline and organise our data in a completely new way
What do you like best about the product?
We were maintaining a number of spreadsheets of largely the same data for separate user groups, and it was a lot of maintenance to ensure each spreadsheet was synchronised whenever changes occurred.With Airtable we have one pool of data with many views. This was essentially the feature we were looking for and Airtable has meet and exceeded those requirements. In addition, we've been able to do much better analysis of our data and improve the efficiency of our data entry and the breadth of data we accumulate.
What do you dislike about the product?
There are a few limitations, such as no median aggregation of lookup fields, but the support team has been helpful in showing us workarounds while features are being worked on.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We operate the largest online directory of homeless services in San Francisco. A primary challenge we face is maintaining accurate data about these services and their providers, as services and the way to access the services is continually changing. We use volunteers to crowd source this content during workshops but, until now, it's been challenging visualising and analysing the large quantity of data that we receive during the workshops. Now with Airtable it's much easier to perform gap analysis and other data analysis to understand where data is missing or needs improvement. With this kind of analysis we can go to our partners and share with them this important information in much more visually interesting ways than basic spreadsheets, and best of all we can do it all with a single application.
Working well for indexing a book!
What do you like best about the product?
It is an easy-to-use relational database.
What do you dislike about the product?
So far I've had no problems with the app.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
In the past I've used another web-based database/table app to index a book. The app was in beta and our use of it was data intensive (tens of thousands of records, many of them with paragraphs of text, and many complex cross links across tables). That app worked well (despite some initial bugs), but is has since gone out of existence, and I have a new book to index, so I'm trying it in AirTable. So far it is working excellently. It was easy to set up (including importing tables from the old app), and it's running stably and quickly, despite our tables being complex and data-intensive.
Secure, excellent documentation, lots of ways to view your data
What do you like best about the product?
We love the API documentation (which we have only played with, not implemented in production yet), the built-in templates for seeing what's possible, and the different views you can get of your data. We use Grid and Gallery views. We're also exploring formulas.
What do you dislike about the product?
Unfortunately, you can't link cells across bases.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Right now, we're using Airtable to track press hits and create a database of reporters and outlets who have covered us. This is helpful for reaching out to those reporters for future stories. Plus, having a well-organized record of press hits makes grant reporting easier. Ultimately, we hope to use Airtable's API to highlight recent press hits from this database on our website. Once we have our Press base fully working, we hope to migrate more of our processes from Google Sheets over to Airtable.
AMAZING TOOL FOR NGO & SMALL BUSINESSES
What do you like best about the product?
It's incredible everything we can do with this tool ! :)
We started with a base, and it was so user friendly and so useful, we now have almost 30 !
Everything in our NGO is on this platform - from our donors database to our events management database.
Every department now has a work space, with different bases, and everyone can have access to the information within seconds. Our productivity, as a team, has never been better, and we always use every opportunity we have to promote it to our partners and clients.
This platform is the best way possible for any small organization with employees having different roles. It allows us to better compartmentalize our activities and ease our work processes From project management to accounting and logistic, we do everything on it !
We started with a base, and it was so user friendly and so useful, we now have almost 30 !
Everything in our NGO is on this platform - from our donors database to our events management database.
Every department now has a work space, with different bases, and everyone can have access to the information within seconds. Our productivity, as a team, has never been better, and we always use every opportunity we have to promote it to our partners and clients.
This platform is the best way possible for any small organization with employees having different roles. It allows us to better compartmentalize our activities and ease our work processes From project management to accounting and logistic, we do everything on it !
What do you dislike about the product?
As we are mainly french speaking, it would be nice to use it in French !
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
- Team productivity
- Data management
- Less information lost
- Easing the distance working process
- Better resource management
- Data management
- Less information lost
- Easing the distance working process
- Better resource management
Airtable makes our operations run smooth!
What do you like best about the product?
Airtable has allowed us to reduce the amount of software to automate our community and collaborate as a team.
What do you dislike about the product?
No complaints to this point, Airtable continues to surprise us!
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Communication with our community and our entire database in one place.
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