Quickbase Reviews & Product Details

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I’m a frequent user of Quickbase and have been using it for the past five years. Overall, it’s very easy to use and manage.

I especially like creating reports based on our requirements. It helps me sort data, set up notifications for our users, and use formula fields effectively. Customer support is also strong; they respond quickly and follow up regularly.

Quickbase also provides a pipeline feature that helps us connect with other platforms and within Quickbase itself.

It is allowing teams to build applications quickly without deep programming knowledge, simple integration, which reduces development time, and implementation is easy overall Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

When we use formula queries, our application becomes slow, and it affects our work progress. Also, sometimes while working on summary reports, we face the same issue. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Quickbase allows a lot of flexibility for creating custom Apps for different Use-cases. We've created apps for Tool and Inventory tracking, Marketing, and Project Management to name a few. The fact that there is a Mobile app also helps get the tools into more hands. If you really dig into it, you can customize it to exactly what you need. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There is a little bit of a learning curve for the deeper development side of things. The positive of being a no-code creation is also a negative in that it's harder to implement programming deeper uses. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Quickbase has been a solid tool for us, especially when it comes to managing the logistics of our food delivery program. One of the things I appreciate most is how well it integrates with other tools we use, like FastField. For example, we’ve been able to connect our bulk order forms directly into Quickbase, so every submission automatically creates a record in our Quickbase tables. It's very easy to pick up and lets us easily manipulate large amounts of data to gain incredibly useful insights on our processes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

More customizability would be very helpful. We've found a lot of utility with the Code Page feature, but it lacks a lot of elements that traditional IDE environments have, like debugging and support for file structures. Pipelines could also be a little more intuitive. Otherwise, it has been a very easy to use and powerful tool. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The best part about quickbase is how user-friendly and interactive it is to be able to create your own apps and develop ways on how to create records and databases that can rely with one another to ensure data consistency within the whole system. There are multiple APIs/pipelines as well that allow Quickbase to collaborate with other systems. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I'm just beginning with the whole developing part on the whole so it can get overwhelming to start even with all of the available resources for self-studying and other peers that provide support in giving more wisdom and knowledge. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

If you need a data store with UI. A store you can share with customers and internally. The platform is very fast and stable. There are multiple ways to build the same solution depending on how much time one has to learn the details. The community is supportive and love to come up with a million solutions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

With proper support this service could be really good. The long term committment it would take is missing a champion capable of understanding humans. Product comes off as impatient and appears to have a different agenda than the customers. This difference leads to a lack of comminucation and transparency and thus confidence. Further, fit and finish falters as things break and no one fixes them claiming end of support (for years). One feels a resistance when talking with employees. Many employees express frustration by the disconnect between leadership and providing quality software. At the cusomer level the dysfunction appears as turbulence, high turnover rate, quota's and deadlines. The result is the Software as a Service model no longer acts like a service for the customer but a struggle. The software is good. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Building relationships is easy, and creating a variety of reports is fairly intuitive. There's a lot of flexibility in database design and options to automate workflows. There are multiple resources within the community, albeit they may not be 1-to-1 for what you need to accomplish. Further, improvements to existing features (e.g. Forms) was a game changer. Release Notes on new products, features, and quality improvements via a centralized 'public' application is now accessible. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Although there's documentation of its features on the corporate website and training modules, you will often find their provided examples rudimentary. If your plan does not include some form of technical support/office hours, you may take hours trying to work out and find a reliable and scalable solution for your database needs. If a product feature has a bug that is impacting your reports or notifications, it could take 5+ weeks for it to be resolved or addressed. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

We find Quickbase intuitive to use, especially as I am not an IT specialist - merely a daily, enthusiastic user.

By experimentation and trial & error, the logic within QB has allowed me to build the apps and databases myself. It's been a great learning process, and has been very successful.

A key feature is that I have been able to automate reports to send to project participants outside of our user group. It certainly beats creating manual reports. That said, it would really help if reports could be sent as attachments instead of being embedded in the email.

I have found it easy to share information and implement dashboards to other users in a secure manner.

QB's customer support is good although I would welcome a "pay as you go" option to assist with minor challenges that only require maybe 10 minutes of assistance. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I would like to learn how to make the presentation more elegant with images and branding. I suspect this can be done, but would like some of tutorials to be available for this, and indeed for other things. Accessing direct support can be expensive for a small business like ours. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I use Quickbase to organize and track waste management for several facilities. I am in my tracking logs almost daily. I can not pick just one feature I like the best, there are several. For example, I love how much time I am saving having everything in one place, how easy it is to share with other team members, and having the drop down menu prevents duplications. As well as how easy it is to export to a spreadsheet or email a log to others that are not on the team. Before Quickbase, I had to do a lot of copy/paste from multiple places to create a report. This was time consuming and not a very accurate way to get the numbers so things had to be checked and double checked often. Some reporting could take hours, now, with the customer reports, it is simply choose what is needed by clicking a couple of button, select the date range and its ready to be sent out. I do appreciate how I can click into the reports and it takes me directly to the data behind the numbers. Maybe that is the #1 feature, for today anyway. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I'm still learning how to create my own reports. This doesn't seem to be very easy for me yet. But I'm sure after I've done it a few more times I will get the hang of it. I have had a chance to customize a few. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Quickbase makes it easier to manage and track the data we need without having to jump between multiple systems. I like that it centralizes everything in one place, especially for tracking studies, agreements, and invoicing. It’s also flexible enough to adapt to what we need as we grow. For example, we’ve been able to set up permissions so users only see the data relevant to them, which is important since we have multiple sites using the app. The ability to customize forms and automate processes is another big plus—it saves us time and reduces manual work. I also appreciate that Quickbase offers tools like pipelines to help cut down on repetitive data entry. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

So far, I haven’t been able to identify any downsides. They’ve been helpful and responsive. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.