QuickBase Valuable Features
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RahulSharma15
Associate principal engineer at a tech vendor with 5,001-10,000 employees
One of the valuable features of Quick Base is its ability to function as a content management system without the need for SQL. It allows for storing data, publishing pages, and is a no-code, low-code platform.
I used it for patient applications, with forms and pages created in different languages such as React. I can view everything in one place on the Quick Base site. This provides a unified solution without needing different databases or pipelines.
View full review »The most valuable feature of QuickBase is its dynamic form capabilities. These forms allow backend automation, making tasks like updating data based on specific conditions much easier. This automation, implemented using Python scripts, streamlines processes and increases efficiency. Users can focus on providing input by reducing manual intervention.
I appreciate the efficiency and organization capabilities of the system and the structured approach it offers for managing multiple individuals working on various books. It provides a well-organized method for overseeing everything, especially considering the remote work aspect.
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June 2025

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The usability of QuickBase largely depends on how you design your workflows within the platform. If you keep them simple and straightforward, it can be a highly usable product.
However, if too many individuals are involved in the app's development and the workflows become overly complex, it can make the platform more challenging to use.
View full review »The product's most valuable feature is its ability to link tables like SQL in a cloud environment and seamlessly visualize data in table format. Additionally, it provides an efficient way to create and view reports.
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Alyssa Lawson
Founder at SMPLX
I really appreciate the processing part of QuickBase, especially considering how we're able to get information in real time instead of having to wait. We get automatic updates. There have been very few times that we haven't got that. It allows us to be able to send accurate information so that we can move forward in different projects whenever required.
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Hannah Wright
Owner at Verve Technologies
The tool helps you to quickly generate reports.
View full review »It is low-code. We are able to go in and create apps quickly. It is very helpful for the size of our company. We're a mid-size company, and at this moment, we don't need anything externally. We don't have to go out and consult a consulting firm to build something from the ground up. So, the ease of that and being able to get development quickly up and running has been good for us.
View full review »I am impressed with the product's automation which makes everything easy.
View full review »The product is useful for simple processes like documentation and information storage. The product is easy to use. It makes it easy to track our information.
View full review »We use all of the features that they have available in the cloud version.
The support is very good.
This solution is not complicated to use and you don't need to have any coding knowledge.
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Mark Myers
Vice President Information Technology at Assemi Group
There is ease of development as long as the data is well understood.
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Derek Hutchinson
Quality Engineer at The Pump Solutions Group/ Blackmer Pump
The need for little to no code knowledge has been huge. I am a Quality Engineer in a manufacturing facility with very little IT knowledge.
View full review »The ease of use of Quickbase is second to none. Creating applications in Quickbase will take, literally, a fraction of the time it would take to create them in other database applications (which shall remain unnamed). .
View full review »The reporting tool: It helps in data analytics to provide the solution more efficiency.
View full review »- The ability to quickly build an application, with advanced features like sorting and dashboards.
- Compared to other solutions, it is powerful.
It has superb ease of use and no code needed to create and build apps and databases. It is highly customizable and flexible from entry level use to advanced build features.
View full review »You can customize an application to best meet the needs of your business is invaluable! As your needs change, you can update your application to change with you.
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Brian Cameron
Vice President - Corporate Operations at a construction company with 51-200 employees
It is customizable to the way you run your business.
View full review »The ability to create apps with no programming skills.
View full review »The selecting process/apps/components which can be dynamically operated by an end user.
View full review »We have made good use of the ability in QuickBase to add multiple apps for various departments and purposes, while some apps are shared. The flexibility of setting up reports even for short-term needs has also been very valuable.
View full review »API and exact forms are the most valuable features. They have helped me grow my database exponentially.
View full review »QuickBase's ability to provide low-code / no-code development and a fully integrated API in a SaaS solution has revolutionized the way we develop applications.
View full review »I appreciate that QuickBase showed me the best way to organize data. QuickBase makes it easy to create a database and to update it with your needs. It is accessible and user friendly.
View full review »- Speed of development
- In-memory database functionality
- Robust security model
- Robust self-service reporting capability
- Excellent API for extending the native platform functionality
- Table relationships
- Easy reporting
- Easy app building
- Allows users have anytime/anywhere access.
- Ability to create the box to fit your workflow. You are not forced to fit into someone’s box or idea of how your company should be run
- Fits small and large companies
It is the best no-code platform and library of useful business applications we have found. We are expert developers in this space as well as users.
QuickBase allows you to easily import and use hundreds of common business apps from their library, or create custom apps without writing code.
You can deploy easy-to-use, secure, cloud-based, real-time database apps for your users in record time.
View full review »- I especially appreciate the development speed. Complex database applications can be deployed and articulated in QuickBase with great speed compared to most all other database platforms.
- Due to relatively low technical know-how requirements, the primary business stakeholders can implement rapid changes directly, rather than having to involve a full-blown IT team. Infrastructure changes that used to take hours, days or longer can now be made within minutes or hours.
- Having the primary business stakeholders "under the hood" creates other synergies beyond speed.
I evaluated the overall platform to determine the best product to support customized application development. The valuable features are the entire framework including:
- Database
- Forms to reports: Maximizes workflow, notification, and dashboard drill-down capabilities
- The PaaS capability: Covers many of the critical requirements
- Out-of-box dynamic chart
- Report functionality
No coding is required. This is especially important to me because I do not have any formal training in programming, nor do I have any interest in start to learn it now.
With QuickBase, I don't have to worry about trying to find and fix programming errors. When talking to clients about developing and supporting apps for them, they all seem relieved that their project won't take months to get "programmed".
View full review »The ability to quickly create table-to-table relationships and homepage dashboards is the product's most valuable feature.
View full review »The best part of QuickBase is the ease of use. Its very easy for anybody with some type of programming knowledge or state of mind to jump in and start creating new applications in their software. Its just as easy for users to log in and use these custom built applications.
View full review »The ability to put together a basic application in a just a few hours. So you can start using it within days and then easily make additions and adjustments on the fly.
View full review »The ability to give access to data that was previously maintained in a spreadsheet has really changed how the business operates. Rather than people working off of potentially stale data everyone can get the latest data from just about anywhere.
View full review »Notifications and Reminders: QuickBase reminds me when a software license or a hardware support contract is near expiration so that I can initiate our company's procurement process in time and not miss a deadline. QuickBase notifies me when a coworker has submitted a vacation request, and reminds me when a coworker is about to go on vacation. These are not available in any stand-alone spreadsheets or databases.
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View full review »QuickBase is unique in the PaaS space as it offers a structured development environment with built-in multi-level security, database, forms, reports and API. It's designed as a no-download, zero-hardware, multi-user PaaS solution best suited to medium and large businesses with granular security requirements (requiring application, departmental, role, and task level security) with geographically-distributed user bases. It is structured enough to provide a rock-solid standardized development & security environment, but flexible enough to provide the developer room to accomplish almost anything imaginable including using external APIs. For us, security is absolutely critical, and QuickBase's security model is uniquely robust. We know because we audit their security.
I believe in 2016 QuickBase will emerge as a leader in the no/low-code space primarily due to four key characteristics. To begin with, QuickBase offers a consolidated development paradigm - database, security, forms, reports, and code base (API) all wrapped up in a single no-hardware platform/UX. The second is robust security. QuickBase offers the most integrated, reliable, and flexible security model (realm, group, app, role, table, form, field) of any PaaS tool I've seen. Third, QuickBase presents a very low adoption barrier. From a citizen developer viewpoint, most anyone with a basic understanding of Excel can create a simple, multi-user, distributed enterprise app in QuickBase in hours. Lastly, QuickBase provides developers and experienced users the ability to create extremely complex, ultra secure, reliable, and scalable (100s of concurrent users) distributed enterprise applications. In addition, the QuickBase API provides quick and easy connectivity to legacy applications (often in only minutes), and allows dead simple microservices integration.
View full review »QuickBase is a great tool in that it provides a very stable platform for creating web applications quickly in a low- to no-code environment.
View full review »API Calls and Exact Forms. I am very pleased with the documentation and user input. It has helped me to keep all of my programming in house and will continue to do so.
View full review »It's highly customizable. We can easily create our own applications in-house to meet our needs. Once you understand the platform, there is no shortage of possible solutions to design problems.
View full review »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.
View full review »The 'Alerts and Notifications', Integrating Tables, and new form features are impressive. Large data management and interactions is also pretty simple.
View full review »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.
We have found countless features to put to use. Naming a few: Trending graphs, connected data, ability to use API. Also, the graphs are interactive and take you right to the data it's using.
View full review »- The reporting is very powerful and very easy.
- Dynamic form rules allow a large number of possibilities as far as permissions and access.
Organizes data efficiently with tables and reports that are easy to use. From structuring information to having users enter in data, QuickBase has simple instructions for all users. Really useful with reporting figures to graphs and charts within the page.
View full review »QuickBase provides a great way to generate reports quickly from large amounts of data. Information is easily organized using tables and one-to-many relationships. We have utilized lookup formulas to help automatically populate fields regarding employee workgroups with many fields.
View full review »Flexibility and unlimited options for operations and sales. It's done everything we've needed and has a rich knowledge base.
View full review »The most useful feature of QuickBase is it's Bulk import feature. While comparing this product with others that we reviewed for implementation, this one feature stood out among others. The ease with which bulk import works especially the copy excel to clipboard feature has given enough flexibility to end users & clients.
Another feature which has very pleasantly come across is the customizations feature where complex algorithms & reports can be built using JQuery & JavaScript yet amalgamates really well with its out of box components.
View full review »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.
View full review »The ease in setting up individual tables and applications and making vital connections so there is not a need for duplicate data entry.
View full review »Auto notifications, required fields, conditional drop downs, and mobile compatibility are all key for us. The simple fact that it's cloud based was a huge improvement on what we were using. As they rest of the company jumps on the QuickBase ship, it helps that I can relate one application to another.
View full review »Being able to set up apps in seconds with no worries about infrastructure or domain registration. It really brings rapid development to any organizations fingertips.
View full review »The quick creation of reports, notifications, and new fields has made using this product very useful. As we are constantly starting new types of projects that need different data to be captured this is a must.
View full review »Reports are easy and Quickbase gives you what you need at your fingertips.
View full review »Configuration and setup are so much more intuitive and powerful, without the many limitations that come with Salesforce.
View full review »One of the best things about Quickbase is how flexible it is. For the most part, if you can dream it, you can build it.
View full review »Project Management tools and tracking
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Customization of email notifications based on any fired action of a field
View full review »Access to Professionals, who are more than happy to help.
View full review »Quickbase's fast setup and easy user management makes it a very versatile tool across all disciplines.
View full review »How easy it is to modify the platform. It's designed very well and very easy to learn.
View full review »It is easy to import and export large amounts of data and construct data relationships within multiple apps.
View full review »The reporting feature has to be my favorite. Quickbase provides you many ways to provide relevant reports to keep your team members on task. The mapping field could use a little improvement. There is a 100 record limitation and you can't change the colors of the pins based on different criteria with out going outside QB. You can only have one default report. It would be nice to create a "Drill Down" report to assign to each report so the user sees what you want when they drill down on a specific report.
View full review »The customization and complete set of tools.
View full review »You can easily import old Excel data to a new pre-built app. The ability to customize the the database to fit your own company is endless.
View full review »QB is very easy to implement with pre-built apps such as the Project Management app. You can quickly customize it to fit your needs and it's easy to keep improving and growing your app. The ability to easily create reports is nice as well.
View full review »You can easily import old Excel data to a new App. Once you have an App, the possibilities are endless. You can create custom reports and slice and dice the information with ease. I strongly recommend this product to anyone who has challenges at their organization regarding information and data management. It has opened up new possibilities and reduced the stress levels for those who are using it.
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Quickbase allows quick and easy control of your data structures. It provides an Excel-like capability to create calculated fields and derived data. It also makes it a snap to create reports and setup email/dashboard notifications based upon data movement.
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QuickBase
June 2025

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