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22 reviewers had the following to say about Caspio's features:
The ability to build a fully functional custom CRM system with API calls in the 30 days is great.
Pros
The software is adaptable and I am able to quickly create a report or triggered action to generate a variety of reports and share information in real time with colleagues.
Cons
Technical support is easier to reach by the chat function instead of phone.
Rating breakdown
Time used: Less than 6 months
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
Pros
It is pretty easy to generate reports and it could be done by anyone on the team as it has almost no learning curve.
Cons
Just a bit difficult when you're accessing the application for the first time as it has so many things.
Rating breakdown
Time used: 1-2 years
Frequency of use: Weekly
Likelihood to recommend
Since then I have designed, built and deployed well over 100 databases for non-profit organizations, government agencies and private companies.
Pros
I have also created smartphone applications and stand-alone programs.
Cons
Frankly, it's difficult for me to find anything about Caspio that I don't like. The product is secure, priced right and full of very cool features which I've often relied upon. It would only be better if Caspio actually clicked my mouse for me!
Pros
- Basic database builder tools have more built-in options than similar software, so it's easier and faster to build more complex setups - If you don't know code, the interface and logic is very close to MS Excel, so the learning curve isn't too bad - Easy to embed and publish applications - Has an unlimited app user model (though not administrators), which is superior to other database app builders that limit user capabilities and charge based on users.
Cons
Basic paid plans have no access to APIs, Zapier, or automation/importing, which is high for the base plan compared to similar apps.
Rating breakdown
Time used: 2+ years
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
Caspio is a great tool to consume smaller data sets and turn them into an actual database management system without having to understand any database requirements or logic.
Pros
ease of use, ability to consume any type of excel file
Rating breakdown
Time used: Less than 6 months
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
Recommendations to others considering Caspio
Has a preview function so you can see the database you are creating in real time without having to complete something to realize you left out a piece of key data.
With the app you can also create web applications and web forms.
Not only is their PaaS (Platform as a Service) feature rich and extremely reliable but it is only surpassed by their customer service.
Given the power of the Caspio platform and my experience with the product, within 6 hours, I had a functioning portal that enabled us to manage a large amount of unstructured data fully deployed.
Pros
Caspio was the perfect platform by which to organize a massive amount of unstructured data while Apprentice University helped the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department attempt to solve a 14-year old cold case homicide.
Cons
I did have to find an alternative solution to create an X-Y scatter plot as the Caspio tools fell short of my needs in this case, but otherwise, there was nothing I disliked about the platform for this application.
Rating breakdown
Time used: 2+ years
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
After a couple of weeks of learning curve to become familiar with the terminology, we quickly configured 2 applications. The Online Live Training was the best of any product we have ever purchased.
Pros
Pricing is very attractive as unlimited database size or number of end users. API Set is good.
Cons
Caspio is lacking Scheduled Tasks, so we had to use their API Set to set up some tasks external to Caspio
Rating breakdown
Time used: Less than 6 months
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
Recommendations to others considering Caspio
There is a 2-week learning curve, and then it all slots into place. So budget 2 weeks of learning, and practice before you really start on your actual application. Take the online live training sessions - no cost - and use the Live Chat a lot - also no cost.
Quick "basic" web app and form creation.
Pros
Basic apps and workflows are pretty easy and intuitive.
Cons
Most workflows and apps I have built or needed required some functionality that had to be "custom coded" with javascript.
Rating breakdown
Time used: 2+ years
Frequency of use: Weekly
Likelihood to recommend
I'm sure there's other applications, but we've loved it for this.
Pros
We were using a small online database app for our scheduling team to have a searchable directory of 100+ clinicians by speciality. That website suddenly shut down and we had to scramble to rebuild. Caspio, found during a late night search, not only saved our team but added huge improvements over the previous software. Love it.
Cons
If you haven't built databases before, it might be hard the first time. Plenty of years of toying with stuff like this though and I had it up and running in a few hours.
Rating breakdown
Time used: 1-2 years
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
It's easy to update and I frequently pull data into excel to do more detailed analysis or use the pivot table capabilities.
Great database, you can make almost anything you want.
Pros
-It works great -Easy to learn, takes maybe 2 weeks to learn, it's not as easy as using email but you can build very great stuff with it.
Cons
-Support is difficult because you have to explain with chatting what the problem is, try that with a database, it's just really difficult, yes you can give them permission to access your database and help you out but they don't really do it.
Rating breakdown
Time used: Less than 6 months
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
I felt very empowered with Caspio, but kept running into walls. I don't know Javascript or HTML so anything code-related that wasn't laid out exactly within a tutorial was frustrating to tackle. I also struggled to build out a front-end that looked good and tied to the datapages I was building, and the templates Caspio provided me still required that I knew web development to get running, and I did not know how to customize them. I did appreciate that pages could be easily embedded within Wordpress or other website builders. If I knew how to code, I would definitely use Caspio though. It gets thing up and running sooo fast. Using as a base for the backend is a great idea as it is 100% customizable. In that case I would totally recommend.
Pros
It is 100% customizable, and there are tutorials for just about everything. The community forums are also active, with Caspio support actively participating. Professional Services seemed very capable and able to do just about anything for you if you needed it.
Cons
For just about everything I wanted to do there was some need for a "custom" solution, and I was heavily dependent on my account manager who was always ready to refer me to Professional Services for even simple integrations.
Rating breakdown
Time used: Less than 6 months
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
We have produced several excellent, complicated applications with Caspio, using a 2-person team.
Pros
Many easy to use features, simple "point and click" setup, excellent training, online explanation videos, and live technical chat
Cons
Very many features - so best to have a brief consult with Caspio to get started in the best direction
Rating breakdown
Time used: 2+ years
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
Pros
For me learning how to use caspio was very easy but what I loved the most was the way it integrated with my website
Cons
Not a lot, I don't like the fact that you have to access another software to build forms on the database.
Rating breakdown
Time used: Less than 6 months
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
Awesome experience. It's actually very rewarding to see your completed Apps and have them deployed.
Pros
The ease in which you can create apps with a cloud based DB behind them. Very flexible and powerful.
Cons
It has been a great tool so far.
Rating breakdown
Time used: 1-2 years
Frequency of use: Weekly
Likelihood to recommend
With the updates that Caspio continuously make it has become a tool that we trust 100%
As an entrepreneur, you want to control the speed at which your product is developed.
We were astounded at the possibilities and potential of what we could do with Caspio. We needed a lot of support at the beginning (being non-developers) and we got it every step of the way! Caspio has not only fabulous support, but tremendous patience :) We were able to create all the fillable forms and databases we needed to flesh out the intangible (idea) to the tangible (website).
Pros
Once we got familiar with HTML and some programming, it all became so much easier - instant in fact!
Cons
Early on, being non-developers, sometimes it was difficult to imagine what we could do, having little exposure. We relied heavily on the ready made apps to understand and imagine the potential. Then Caspio stepped in to help us customize.
Pros
Super Easy to Use and minimal code necessary Robust relational database Customer Support is extremely helpful
Cons
Professional Services is slow and incompetent Parameter passing is tricky and at times does not work
Rating breakdown
Time used: 6-12 months
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
