Claris FileMaker Reviews & Product Details

What I like best about Claris FileMaker is its flexibility and ease of customization. It allows me to create tailored solutions that perfectly fit my business needs without requiring extensive programming knowledge. The drag-and-drop interface makes it easy to build complex databases and workflows quickly. Additionally, the ability to integrate with other apps and platforms enhances its functionality, making it a powerful tool for managing various aspects of our operations. The robust community and resources available for support are also major pluses. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

the pricing structure may be a bit high for small businesses or individuals, particularly when scaling up with additional users. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

When we were in a multi-platform environment, with Mac and PC, compared to MS Access, it was easy to learn as a DIY project for me, the business owner. There are good help resources and a good forum for asking questions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I can't think of any, but I have used it for so many years that they have significantly improved. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Apart from its ability in allowing one's creative abilities to flow, the software caters to just about any real-life situation where there's a need to be met or a problem to be solved. It becomes almost addictive because the solving of one small problem leads to the solving of more ambitious ones. It's quite amazing what can be achieved, be it for one person or for a team of people. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

As good as the software is, its price is too high for an individual or for a group of less than 5. The company in my view seems to be too heavily focussed on large organisations. Unfortunately this puts it out of reach for many first-timers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

FileMaker is a great tool for creating software solutions quickly. My users love the rapid turnaround time from new request to new feature in the live environment. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There is currently no certification available for intermediate to advanced developers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

FileMaker is a fantastic platform for customer with 20 employees. It allows flexibility for building a solutions, and is great for not have to tell the customer "No you cannot have that." Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Licensing seems overly complicated. Claris studio is a new seperate product. Its seems Claris is updating their licensing to make it more simple, but I haven't seen tha simplification yet. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

FileMaker is a database for small to medium sized groups - ideal for a little business. Straight from the box, it does the boring, necessary stuff: invoices, packing slips, bill of goods, etc. Easy to customize to our specific needs: layouts customized to our specific business.

Startup was quick: we just chose their invoice system, and then over the years, customized it to our needs.

With this tiny business (just me, doing everything from warehouse to packing to postage and shipping) Filemanker does all the daily, monthly, and yearly paperwork. Over twenty years, I've written about 500 short scripts, each handling a little job (add taxes to this job; check to make sure each package gets delivered; add up quarterly sales taxes; show which items are running low stock)

It's in use all the time, and my business runs smoothly because of it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It took a few days of fooling aroud to get the hang of writing custom scripts. It's a bit clumsy in connecting to Excel, Word, and email -- one of those places where copy and paste still has a use, even in the 2020's. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

FileMaker has been around for decades and has a massive community of developers at every stage. The product gets better year after year and is much than any Microsoft product I have used. You can create a shared hosted database in minutes, with no programming. It has saved my clients and me tons of time and money. The server version is also very stable. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I wish the server version was more powerful for websites to use as a backend or more powerful just to use with more that 250 people. I think this is the main limitation of the program. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It is adabtable and developers who have just a little knowledge can do anything with it. You can make an app that functional and looks very smart quickly and easily. You can experiment as you are developing. While the traditional schema based layout is clunky limiting, the fact you can integrate things like SQL and JSON means you can do pretty much anything easlily and quickly. It is such a rich and empowering application. I use FMP all the time for very different things. There is a very active and supportive base of users to help new users. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The expense of having mutltiple users. Some of the features are a bit clunky Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Single integrated environment for all tools, from schema, to business logic scripts, to GUI layout, radically reducing time-to-value, plus rapid deployment options. Deploy to desktop, iOS mobile and web, all instantly available, API suport to the world, and a built in web viewer - nothing like it on the market.

#1 time-to-value equation. Compared to full stack development, time-to-value is thousands of times faster, and far more manageable. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Deployment at scale - over 2,000 concurrent users - takes some creative engineering, but doable. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Claris FileMaker is a powerful application builder in the low-code space and gives skilled developers an incredible amount of flexibility to build exactly what is needed for a business user. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The authenctication process has become more complex with the addition of the Claris ID. If you do not have the additional resources and skill to manage this technical challenge, you are limited in your automation options. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.