QuickBase Reviews

We purchased QuickBase because we needed process management - and it's allowing us to enforce process.  We have been able to create apps that are specific to our business processes, and have helped to ensure that things don't fall thru the cracks.

THe way forms are built and displayed could really be improved; it would be fantastic if the forms could be built with a WYSIWYG editor.  The mobile experience needs serious work, but that is underway and looks very promising.

We have found from using Intuit QuickBase that it allows for very custom, time-consuming business processes to be transformed into a simple "app" or database without any coding. The platform is a perfect alternative to Microsoft Access or Excel. The interface truly ensures adoption by all users (especially non-tech savvy individuals). QuickBase features such as automated emails, workflows/business logic, and custom dashboards with reporting ensure my users always have real-time information. Using QuickBase apps that support hundreds of users and core business processes, many which are custom to the industry or organization, replaces the need for ERP functionality. 

QuickBase has created a level of efficiency within the company that has not only reduced time on task, but has also increased accuracy. The solution has provided us with a tool to track and move information effortlessly, allowing us to eliminate our dependence on spreadsheets for tracking of time and expense reports. QuickBase has become a centralized point for all employees in the company. No longer are employees wasting valuable time searching for the most current template to complete their daily reporting. Another efficiency noted by implementing the system was the massive reduction in the number of emails with attached process documents sent back and forth between individuals and the many project and task status update emails.

Improve mobile app and increase branding/white-labeling.

Over 2 years

No, deployment and training was very simple due to the simple to understand interface.

5 star - always helpful and quick to respond

QuickBase is a wonderful PaaS platform that offers ease in building small- and medium- sized projects/automation. It was very instrumental in meeting Accenture’s base requirements for automation at a low cost, easy-to-use, easily configured, customizable and flexible relational database. Highly reliable platform (multi-data center). Easily integrates with any system.

Best part is its multi-domain potential.

Integration of the solution with other enterprise solutions was very effective. We built open positions tracker, employee rosters, deployment trackers, etc. using this platform and were able to add inefficiencies in the overall process.

The product needs improvement on the performance side especially when the data tends to grow more than 2000 records in a table.

It's high time for them to build a multi-select drop down, more flexible and adjustable UI with support for more colors, schemes and themes.

1.5 Years

Deployment is a bit slow especially when enhancements have to be deployed because configuration changes needs to be deployed 1 by 1 on the production environment. Need a more efficient solution there.

No issues

No Issues encountered with scalability, that's in fact a strong area.

7/10

10/10

Yes, Time to Market was a major factor as we as the self-service feature.

Our first solution was a complex one but we got all the support/consulting from the vendor to ensure we were set for success

In House with consulting from a vendor. Vendor's level of expertise was 8/10.

Productivity Improvements

The product is fairly priced

The solution has a lot to offer from Workflow, Notifications, Dashboards, Reporting and Charts, User Permissions, Form rules and formulas, customizations using jQuery, JS, HTML, PHP, XML API's etc

The features that are most valuable are the ones that allow me, as a developer, to create business applications rapidly. Quickbase has some amazing built in tools that allow users to get ideas up and running very quickly. Personally, I really enjoy the ease of creating relational database tables, Quickbase does this so effortlessly anyone can do it. The roles and permission features are also very valuable.

Quickbase allows us to conceptualize an idea and deploy it very quickly to users. It even has the ability to let end users make their own applications without any coding.

The API uses XML. I would like to see them update the system to include are more popular format like JSON. The mobile version of the applications could also be improved.

3 Years

The only issues with deployment seem to be the extra time involved in setting up roles and permissions for tables fields and reports. By default a new field allows modify to everyone. It is quite tedious adjusting these for every new field. It would be nice if the field level access control had a feature that could make all a certain privilege at once.

A few times, the system has seen a "traffic jam" and very rarely does it go down, but it has had some hiccups this year with our systems being down a whole afternoon.

No, Quickbase scales nicely as long as the developer builds with scalability in mind.

Intuit seems to try to create a lot of content for new users to get up and running like webinars. I have never had to use it, but I think their support is just fine.

Intuit seems to try to create a lot of content for new users to get up and running like webinars. I have never had to use it, but I think their support is just fine.

Many different solutions to suit many different business processes. We switched because it is a lot easier and cheaper to run one system instead of multiples.

Yes, it was a straightforward setup. Simply signup, login and start creating. Intuit offers a trial subscription so you can easily give it a try.

The system was integrated in house, migrating all data over from previous systems. The import process is easy and makes migration a breeze.

The ROI we see is mostly through time saved from users using multiple applications, sometimes cumbersome for what the application demands.

The pricing is affordable and comparable to other platforms that have less features and the credibility of Intuit behind it.

We looked at a variety of options and tried a selection of software to suit our needs. We even went the route of developing custom business applications that were costly to maintain to achieve our goals.

Excellent product with a great team developing it. Speaking with some development team members at a conference, Quickbase is really moving forward with new developments.

Project Management tools and tracking

Organizations, and time management for projects.

3 years

No technical issues.

No issues with stability.

No issues with scalability.

In-house

Great, easy to use product.

Reporting and Charts

QuickBase pushes all of our leads that convert to customers through the process workflow in order to get their product installed in a timely manner.

I would like to see more customization within the forms. 

I would like to see the ability to import data from other sources in order to have better reporting without having to buy Tableau or another solution.

The customization and complete set of tools.

It provides a standard place for information retention without individual excel files for each person in our firm.

A year and a half

We didn't know our workflow well enough to implement at first.

Yes. It was a DOS-based database system that was only available on ONE computer in our home office, and it could NOT be accessed via the web.

Some things were straightforward. Some were complex. We did not have enough time because of ongoing projects to devote to the development/setup.

In-house.

Yes. Multiple ones.

The selecting process/apps/components which can be dynamically operated by an end user.

I could not yet verify the existence/capability of the feature, such as how to help a non-IT based user to configure the ERP operating environment on a complex cross-functional process. This seems to be done by support from a citizen expert, but I assume that there might be a sort of standard consulting framework so every citizen expert might be able to follow and comply with consulting/implementation quality standards.

Only two months for bench-marking.

Not available yet.

I could not yet verify the existence/capability of the feature, such as how to help a non-IT based user to configure the ERP operating environment on a complex cross-functional process.

Not available at this moment.

I have used local ERP, SCM, MES, and Logistics application systems. But all are customized by an end user requirement and hard to consider providing standard/best practices, just function-oriented, and little have capability to suggest a roadmap.

Quite straightforward, but hard to proceed with further configuration for the holistic view of an operation.

No concern.

Experience local best ERP/SCM/MES/Logistics package, but it is hard to position as cloud SaaS.