Airtable

Airtable has been a blessing in allowing us to create endless private views to share with our clients. The ability to filter down to private information and have that updated live for them saves us so much time. It has reduced the amount of emails we have to send back and forth and increased our productivity to no end. Our clients also love the ability to review their information at any time.

The only downsides I have found to Airtable are very specific requirements to our business that our out of the norm. There really is nothing to dislike and the support team are amazing at working with you to help implement your information.

We run a Music Entertainment Agency and use Airtable to store all of our artists information, record and display their availability, build out contracts and all related information and automate the entire process through the built in Airtable automations or 3rd party software such as Zapier.

That it can be used for so many different things and is so easy to use. We can have it linked to other programs so the information can be shared easily. We have replaced a lot of our excel spreadsheets with airtable because it is easier to use for what we need. Everyone on the team can use it quickly and efficiently.

I really like airtable, there isn't anything that I can think of that I don't like about it at the moment.

This is a great product that is easy to use

We use it for anything that needs a spread sheet and it also talks with other systems we are using so it helps a lot

I like everything, the UX is just perfect. AIRTABLE has all the functionalities that I expected and more. Even something is not there you can create an app yourself to do the job.

Their mobile app is still basic and lacks a lot of the necessary features of their website.

I was looking for a way to manage all my data, we were about to create our own system till we found Airtable.

Airtable provides great flexibility and multiple usage opportunities in many different use cases, for all company types and all departments, from Finance to Engineering to development. Airtable provides easy access and scale to an entire organization or parts of an organization (a department or a subset of people). Airtable also allows certain access restrictions to ensure appropriate users are changing the Airtable or simply interacting with Airtable. Overall Airtable is easy to use and you can get ramped up quickly. Also, the on-going additions, reporting and ability to integrate with other software is very helpful, either directly or through Zapier.

The administrative tool to manage users and their access took a while to get going, and even still remains rather clunky and not the most intuitive. Also, as more usage is experience, each user is able to create and manage their own workspaces and tables, and thus it becomes hard to manage overall access across the entire platform. There some capacity limits in terms of records - 100,000 / base, which could actually become restrictive, and we have experience some performance issues when the capacity nears its max.

Airtable can get expensive across an organization so ensure the user count is specific to those who need it. Now that the admin tool has improved significantly it's easier to manage, but once access is given users can create their own space with access as they deem, so within some control environment, this could become tricky. As you set up new Airtables, think through the process you are looking to solve and the tools needed. We've used Airtable a lot with Zapier to create workflows where actions in Airtable affect other applications / nuances. This is great, but can get complex, and also creates a dependency, so just be aware.

Make sure to use multiple tabs/tables as well as different views through filters as that can ensure there is a process built.

We use Airtable to solve operational problems across multiple departments, creating internal process (with efficiencies) without requiring high dev resource use. This includes marketing campaigns, tracking of user responses to in-depth research, optimization of operational process, creating of processes within our business ranging from user on-boarding to billing (creating task lists for different employees within a process and tracking it). In certain instances we've also managed to use Airtable as an efficient tool to update our core platform.

We've used Airtable a lot with zapier to connect it to our own platform (understand user behavior), to create and track marketing campaign; to create user research process from capturing of information all the way through to communicating via Slack the results and more.

Airtable is a crisp and concise way to share task and project details with your friends. Airtable provides the lucrative feature of using different tabs for easier navigation and division of information for sharing between team members. My teammates and i use this app to share and provide feedback to each other for details related to every department of our project. Airtable has consise information sharing through tables that is easy to use like excel on computer systems. In my experience, Airtable has provided great ease to many business functions and my team members will keep using this for the amazing collaborative functions like data sharing, responsibility allotment and ticking tasks off our lists.

Airtable needs a premium version feature wherein data can be imported directly from Google sheets. Moreover there are more collaborative features needed for better team functionality since multiple members of a team work on Airtable together. For better sharing on data among team members it is important that Airtable launches features that address the needs of organizational goals. The application can also focus on prompting features for easy use to new members using the versatile software. All in all i think Airtable has huge scope for improvement in the coming time.

The various problems I am solving using Airtable are collaboration of work streams, sharing of data as well allotment of responsibility to team members on a running basis. I also use Airtable to finish and mark departmental tasks.

Airtable is really easy to use, visual, and has multiple views that allow you to look at your projects and tasks in different ways - grid, kanban, calendar etc. We use it for project management and tracking, purchase orders, a content calendar and more. It's great to have a tool that can be used in so many ways, and that allows for additional features through the apps feature.

The trainings are great, but it took team members a bit to get used to it and start using it actively. For non-digital natives, there seems to be a barrier to understanding how to use it. We've found that our younger team members seem more likely to pick it up and run with it.

Their sales team was great and able to work with us on an annual invoice.

First, we are better able to allocate staff time to projects and focus areas. We're also better able to track our stock and what we need to order for the team. For our design team, we use the forms function to streamline requests. We have fielded over 200 requests through this form, which also allows us to analyze our workflow. These 3 functions allow our team to work more efficiently. Finally, Airtable allows us to have a high level snapshot of all of our work.

I like that Airtable is intuitive, easy to edit, easy to export to CSV. It is a great platform for my own departmental projects and for inter-department communication. I like color coding, sorting fields, ease of creating new lines and items, flexibility of different fields (like you can have text, date, complete, priority, assign tasks, or whatever you think is relevant). I also like that you can easily nestle tasks within subprojects within projects within goals. I have also used it to create databases of information for clients and it is easy for them to view and understand vs something like excel.

There is a paywall for color coding and it isn't always easy to link projects and tasks together. Additionally, you cannot use equations in the cells to do any maths. I do not like that it sometimes crashes and you cannot see edits of others in real time. It also doesn't have a downloadable computer program, which would be very helpful if I am doing tasks offline.

IF you are looking for easy plug and play, this is good online support. It is very similar to excel,

Inter-departmental communication and strategy. Tracking and managing goals and tasks. A great benefit is that everything can be exported to CSV and there are multiple views for each table created. I have used it with both my direct reports and with my managers to clearly communicate what has been done and where each task stands. It is excellent especially as so many people are working remotely and google drive doesn't always work especially well for communicating tasks. Email is a graveyard where tasks go to die.

It is very easy to use. It is the improvised version of Google sheets.

They do not have native integration with any tools.

It is very easy to use, and affordable by start-ups which are tight on budget.

This doesn't have all the functionalities which other CRMs provide, but you can consider using it when you are just starting with your business.

We store all of our leads on Airtable and update their respective fields over there.

I love the interface, it's highly aesthetically appealing, and the different views and format to share information make it really convenient. All the platform is very intuitive to train new people how to use it, and it can be used for almost all business processes depending on the template you chose. I have been using Airtable for close to a year now with my current job, and over a year with my previous organizations. You can make of it whatever you need and I recommend scheduling an appointment with a Brand Representative to make sure you are fully using the capabilities of the software. After some demonstrations, we were able to add additional branding items, and with the upgrade, we were able to implement it as a registration system for our events.

There isn't something I dislike. If I could change the number of people allowed to access the ProPlan I would, but other than that, their customer representatives are very quick if I ever needed to complain, but I haven;t had any reasons to. Perhaps, offering some kid of analytics or insights instead of only the raw data and columns for some forms would be interesting to see in the future

I recommend that you have a clear business defined by roles and departments before using Airtable, other than that, you may start creating random bases and there is an art to the organization. The product is there for you to support your information management, and definitely watch their training videos to grasp the concept!

Many project management organization spreadsheets are laid out and easily customizable for all team members to see and explore. Attaching documents and external links to tasks makes it easier to have one centralized location. Some examples include using it as an Applicant Tracking system, social media posting track, checklist for planning, project dashboard with templates, external links.

AirTable bases function like Excel workbooks and spreadsheets only it is really simple to link between spreadsheets and use controlled vocabulary by drop down menus. Subsetting the data through views are another feature that I regularly use. These are most used functions that we use and AirTable handles it excellently!

There are lots of block functions for the advanced user that I do not use or have not found it useful. Searching the entire base should be free basic function but I appreciate the cost model you have. It tends to get expensive for multiple users so I can only afford to give some of our lab members write access as we are an educational institution of government grants.

Like all databases, do take time to plan out the schema of the entire database as to what you want to capture as well as how to want to retrieve the data. This will ensure that you will have a functional and usable database which everyone uses and hence is really useful in the organization.

Adoption. With multiple spreadsheets which are not updated, I have tried to centralize everything on AirTable and link them so that bases can be updated (in progress). Also we can easily subset views to see the data in subset in different ways on the fly which is really useful for presentation and question time. It is easily adopted by everyone and I have different views for everyone to see their own subset of the data and importantly when one view is updated, everyone's view is also updated with the relevant information in real-time.