What do you like best about the product?

There are loads of training resources and it is easy for the whole team to work out how to use the various features. Keeping it simple really works well here. The end goal will be to have our entire organisation using this as a collaborative tool, looking after our venue hire spaces.

What do you dislike about the product?

Not a lot to say, so far we have not managed to break it.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Previously, our venue hire spaces were managed through manual forms, leading to confusion and issues with getting maintenance teams in without asking three different people if the spaces were free. We now have one place that everyone can view and book as required.

Recommendations to others considering the product:

There are lots of online training resources. They can help immensely when setting up your system. We have also taken a collaborative approach with getting the system up and running, helping to get the team buy-in.

What do you like best about the product?

Muy buena interface de usuario y potencia (Very good interface and power)

What do you dislike about the product?

Es excelente. Lo unico que me gustaria que ademas tuviera es la inmediata sincronización de tablas de contactos con los contactos de google.
(It is excellent! Only expect that whould be possible to sinchronize contacts table with google contacts)

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

La compleja informacion de la empresa la consigo centralizar y ser accesible para todos, cada uno lo que necesita.
(The complex information managed on the company is getting good access for everybodey into the educational center, and everyone has access to only what is needed.)

Recommendations to others considering the product:

Probadlo. Vale la pena en la mayoria de ocasiones
(Please try. It is very usefull in most workgroup situations)

What do you like best about the product?

Airtable is friendly and highly functional, easy-to-use but deceptively powerful. I work with young people, and they have no problem understanding the system. But at the same time, Airtable has ingenious calendar tools; a "why didn't 'they' think of that before" auto-integration of sheets, forms, Kanban (Trello) boards, and galleries; and integrations with other apps both in-app and via Zapier. It's everything we need to run our nonprofit.

What do you dislike about the product?

Airtable still has a little ways to go, especially re: user permissions and data validation. Fine tuning base access, and creating folders of bases, is still out of reach. And views need to be lockable, so that myself and other staff don't inadvertently change complex filter setups. And data validation tools on dropdown lists should be a no-brainer, since accidentally manually adding an item to a multiple-choice field is just too easy. But overall—Airtable is excellent, and has gotten demonstrably better every month since we began using it about 6 months ago. I trust it will keep improving!

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

We're using Airtable to manage all aspects of our nonprofit, from tracking clients, staff, and partners, to building grant and media production calendars, to creating openly accessible tables for volunteer and Board involvement. It's solved almost all our organizational challenges.

What do you like best about the product?

Easy & Intuitive to use! Dare I say fun!

What do you dislike about the product?

None...a pleasure to use! Fast and easy!

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Managing and creating connections between large volumes of data and having the ability to collaborate with others

Recommendations to others considering the product:

Give it a shot! It's cross platform, easy to use and allows you to easily collaborate with others.

What do you like best about the product?

Table construction, design, and layout are big pluses.

It's a very intuitive tool and the templates are very helpful.

The ability to share information with multiple users is another "pro" of the tool.

The ability to integrate with so many other tools like Basecamp and Dropbox is very valuable.

What do you dislike about the product?

The app on the computer should be usable offline.

The price isn't completely unreasonable, but for nonprofits or NGOs, the cost could improve a little...

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

We're streamlining our content marketing plans and calendars with this tool. It has so many other benefits in terms of database and other information tracking, but we're really using it to help map out and schedule our marketing plans.

What do you like best about the product?

Airtable is very much like Excel Spreadsheet or Google Sheets.

What do you dislike about the product?

Still needs a lot more development. The biggest thing I don't like about it is you cannot resize the cell.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Lists and items to keep track. It's good that the team can share and collaborate on them.

Recommendations to others considering the product:

There are some limitations to Airtable. You cannot resize a cell. And if you want to color code a row, they charge you.

What do you like best about the product?

Hands down, my favorite feature is the interface. It's intuitive, easy to use, and provides a mechanism to capture and share data without having to build a front-end from scratch. Setting up tables and linking your data is straight forward and doesn't require prior experience with database development. The blocks feature is useful for both data analysis and project management.

What do you dislike about the product?

I have three issues, none of which are deal-breakers. First, I don't like the fact that when searching a linked field it doesn't search all parts of the linked record (exa: you have to know the business ID, you can't search by business name). You can get around this with the search block, but it would be nice to eliminate the extra step. Second, I'd like to see pre-populated values in form view for capturing data, or dynamic forms that change based on what you select. Lastly, the video tutorials could be refined to include more voiceover and less music. The text is straight-forward and helpful, but for a visual learner more elaborate videos would help a lot.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

We're using Airtable to capture and archive information requests related to challenges in healthcare. Once an issue is resolved, we document the solution in an effort to help others who may be faced with similar challenges. Airtable provided us a way to track our progress without the need for outside database development.

Recommendations to others considering the product:

If you're new to setting up and using a database, take the time to read each tutorial and building a few practice bases. Look at the provided templates to get an idea of what features are available and think about how you could apply them to your situation.

What do you like best about the product?

User friendly, has a lot of features to cross collaborate

What do you dislike about the product?

Learning curve when used to a system like Excel. The help desk has not been super responsive.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Collecting data from multiple teams into one spot

What do you like best about the product?

what i like best about airtable is the digital social media calendar content base.

What do you dislike about the product?

what i dont like about airtable is that it still doesnt have the capabilities to post any of the social media posts for you.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

post organization. my non profit board has benefited by being able to see a big-picture grid of what posts should be posted when, with what caption, by a certain date, with a certain photo.

Recommendations to others considering the product:

to others considering airtable i would say it is the more impressive, the more that you use it. the beginning of our implementation with airtable we only used 1 of the available bases, and now we use 5-6 and we are just able to keep so much more of our work in one place.

What do you like best about the product?

AirTable is terrifically smart, with a user-focused design and interface that is truly impressive. It is already great, and I look forward to seeing it get even better over time.

- An intuitive interface, which allows me to get new part-time student volunteers up, running, and collaborating on AirTable with minimal training on my part

- WordPress website compatibility (info we save on AirTable can show up instantly on our WordPress-based website, showing exactly the fields we specify)

- Control over info (I decide which info gets shown on WordPress from a base; I decide whether other collaborators can add columns, I can grant access to some bases but not others or to an entire workspace, etc.)

-An amazing array of hugely useful options for organizing information, with both easy pre-packaged options (choosing a certain type of column display) along with higher-end, customizable database type features (i.e., linking across records).

- Color coding (along with the option to turn it off) and other useful visual features, which helps me focus on key info

- The ability to save images and documents with each record, with super fast and easy drag & drop functionality

What do you dislike about the product?

*** 1 *** I don't like that pro and premium users have to pay for each Workspace they use, rather than just getting premium access to AirTable. I like to organize my information, and separate out different projects. That is important to me. But I can't put spreadsheets for a different project into a separate workspace, or I will get charged double for it. That is annoying, because I suspect that few people are really paying double, triple, etc. for AirTable premium access. They are just having to give up on organizing their AirTable bases, and then granting access to collaborators to individual bases instead of workspaces. I wish that AirTable would rethink that, because it doesn't seem to be putting the customer first.

*** 2 *** To be able to make key info within a given cell stand out visually, I want to be able to bold or color certain words, as one can in an Excel spreadsheet. That is not possible in AirTable.

*** 3 *** I would like to have more text wrapping and associated row height options and controls for key fields.

*** 4 *** I want to be able to have "bases" talk to each other (i.e., reference information about team members from a different base to link to records in another base.) If bases can't be better programmed to talk to one another, I would like to have the option to automatically copy the content from one table into another base, to serve essentially the same function, albeit less efficiently.

*** 5 *** My needs are very image heavy (i.e., uploading many docs and photos), and I would like to have an export option that exports the photos/docs, and not just text. Among other things, it would make me feel better about being able to save a full backup locally.

*** 6 *** Display options on iPads and mobile devices are currently pretty limited, so less useful for our team management bases (for example, to do lists.) I hope they focus on improving that for the future.

*** 7 *** I can see how a per user pricing model works for corporate uses, where each user might spend a significant amount of time on AirTable. However, many non-profit and educational institutions often have a lot of workers who each work a small number of hours per month/year. Even with non-profit/educational pricing (which I appreciate), the per user costs are still pretty high. I wish that the non-profit/educational discounts could involve an option to pay per base, or pay per workspace rather than per user in each workspace -- with everyone (or up to a certain number, say 10 users) having editing privileges rather.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

I am engaged in a non-for-profit social enterprise, leading a team of students in a social good project at a university. AirTable allows me and my team of students to:

A) organize content-rich data along with associated documents (i.e., titles and abstracts of research studies that we share with others doing research on those areas, while attaching PDFs of the articles for our internal, university use only)

B) Our WordPress site automatically pulls the fields I want over into our website, with full read-only search, filtering, and sorting capabilities by users. There is almost no time lag in the transmission of that information to the website.

3) I will be moving most of my student team management tools (to do lists, contact lists, dates of employment, etc.) to AirTable, so it will be one-stop-shopping for keeping track of both of the logistical aspects of the team's work, and much of their research and associated output.

Recommendations to others considering the product:

It is great for WordPress compatibility in basic ways; however, I wish there was a PlugIn on WordPress for AirTable that could facilitate options on the display (for example, AirTable shows up smaller than the width of my WordPress site, and I wish there were easy options for fixing that.) But it is amazingly easy to set up on WordPress websites to pull from a select array of info on an AirTable, with wonderful filtering options included. It really is pretty amazing.