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Pros
"The product helps us track activities, address complaints, and make improvements.""Airtable stands out for its exceptional user-friendliness, making it accessible to users of all skill levels. Its intuitive navigation ensures a smooth experience, allowing users to easily explore and comprehend its functionalities. Moreover, Airtable offers powerful automation capabilities that enhance efficiency. One particularly advantageous aspect is the seamless linking of databases, enabling the effortless creation of relational databases. Overall, this feature has proven to be immensely valuable and has been the primary focus of my usage.""The product is very easy to use and flexible.""Airtable's ability to bring people from different teams and geographies together into say a master calendar, with complete control over who sees what when and in what format, is highly beneficial for communications organizations.""The solution makes it easy to structure data into simple data tables.""The product helps us track activities, address complaints, and make improvements.""The relations and multiple-choice options are the most valuable features. For example, if I have one client but multiple projects in the same client, it's much easier to map it with Airtable than if I use a Google Sheet. The relationship between interfaces is a key feature that I use very often.""The sorting of the data is the best feature of Airtable. In a Google sheet I have to insert some data and Airtable provides the default option of doing it automatically."

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"The ease of use is valuable.""The ability to network informally is great for communicating with colleagues."

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Cons
"The template library is huge. I have a few suggestions with respect to that. But to complete automation, I think a bit more documentation around that would be really helpful because there are a lot of features in that which common people explore them less""Reporting, specifically anything involving exports, could be improved.""They should allow us to duplicate the data to share it with others.""The product is slow when I try to add data to a table using API. There is also a limit on the databases.""The product should improve the Spanish translation.""It'd be nice if the record limit of 50,000 record limit per base on pro accounts were substantially higher.""The interfaces provided by the company have certainly undergone significant improvements since their earlier versions. The growth and progress have been remarkable. I have personally shared numerous feedback points and observed the prompt implementation of changes within a few months, which is highly commendable. However, I must admit that I have encountered several challenges with their interfaces.""The tool has changed the syncing time between the tables which has affected our multiple systems. I would like the product to add more calls per second to the API. It also needs to improve data storage. The tool starts to have problems after having huge amounts of data."

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"The solution could be more user-friendly.""The product isn't easy to use. It's not very intuitive."

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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "The tool's pricing is based on the number of users. The product's pricing is okay for personal use. For large organizations, pricing can be a pain. As per the first-rate plan, you need to pay 10 USD per user. The next plan would cost you 20 USD per user. If you are looking for enterprise-type plans, then you need to contact the sales team."
  • "The product is a little bit expensive."
  • "For basic usage, Airtable is an open-source tool but if you need premium features like script automation, then you need to pay for it. As my clients provide me access after buying the subscription I do not have much knowledge about pricing."
  • "We are utilizing the free version of the software, which adequately meets most of our requirements. As we explore the higher-end versions, we have noticed that the primary distinctions lie in the number of records and usage limitations. However, the free version offers comprehensive functionality, and the disparity between the free and paid versions is minimal, with only a few minor differences."
  • "The solution is not expensive."
  • "Airtable's pricing depends on the plan that you're on."
  • "The product would be expensive for customers with only one application or database."
  • "The product's price is good."
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    Top Answer:Airtable may be an excellent tool for basic database management, but there may be better choices for your specific project management and CRM needs as a small non-profit Bitrix24 is a more… more »
    Top Answer:The product helps us track activities, address complaints, and make improvements.
    Top Answer:The licensing costs are approximately $900 annually. I rate the price a four out of ten, with one being cheap and ten being expensive.
    Top Answer:The recent update on the solution has made it a little bit complex. For example, to create a team and a project, there is a separate button that you need to click. Recently they updated it with only… more »
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    Overview

    Airtable was founded on the belief that software shouldn't dictate how you work – you should dictate how it works. Our mission is to democratize software creation by enabling anyone to build the software tools that meet their needs. Creators and creatives around the world use Airtable to do everything from cattle tracking to filmmaking, and they have great things to say.

    Our team brings experience from building and scaling products touching millions of people at Google, Facebook, Salesforce, Microsoft, Dropbox and other leading technology companies. We take pride in our product, and strive hard to provide the best possible experience for you, even if it requires creating new technologies and design paradigms along the way.

    Airtable is an independent, private company headquartered in San Francisco. The company has raised over $63 million in funding from notable investors including: CRV, Caffeinated Capital, Freestyle Capital, Data Collective, Founder Collective, CrunchFund, and Box Group.

    Basecamp is a web-based project-management tool developed by Basecamp and launched in 2004, with a new version being launched in 2012. Basecamp offers to-do lists, wiki-style web-based text documents, milestone management, file sharing, time tracking, and a messaging system. Basecamp Classic also offers integration with Basecamp's own Campfire product, and features APIs that are used by a host of web and mobile apps. Basecamp Classic's interface is available in different languages (e.g. Spanish, French, Italian, German, Finnish and Japanese). The newer version of Basecamp currently only supports English as the interface language.
    Sample Customers
    Cole Haan, Expedia, BuzzFeed, Medium, Shopify, Box, JetBlue
    Ashland Addison Florist Co., Victory Auto Wreckers, Ideal Box Co., Hollymatic Corp.
    Top Industries
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Financial Services Firm18%
    Computer Software Company14%
    University8%
    Educational Organization8%
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    Computer Software Company19%
    Healthcare Company10%
    Educational Organization10%
    Financial Services Firm10%
    Company Size
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    Small Business70%
    Large Enterprise30%
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    Small Business26%
    Midsize Enterprise10%
    Large Enterprise64%
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    Small Business16%
    Midsize Enterprise18%
    Large Enterprise67%
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    Airtable is ranked 11th in Project Management Software with 11 reviews while Basecamp is ranked 21st in Project Management Software with 3 reviews. Airtable is rated 8.8, while Basecamp is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of Airtable writes "An ERP tool for project tracking with continuous improvement ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Basecamp writes "Easy to navigate and good for communications but needs better documentation". Airtable is most compared with Spreadsheet.com, Microsoft Project and Adobe Workfront, whereas Basecamp is most compared with Jira, Smartsheet, Planview Portfolios and ServiceNow Strategic Portfolio Management.

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