For an experienced database developer like myself, the platform has allowed the development of a robust data backend for my website. But for an inexperienced developer, the tutorials provide all the needed information to move from concept to completion.
I wish the payment integration were available at a lower cost threshold.
Access to a data platform for my educational website
Caspio provides a great environment that combines a user friendly relational database system, with web forms you can easily set up with pre-made templates, and gives you the ability to automate tasks by building scripts (tasks) and triggered actions with their low-code interface. I have very limited experience in coding and I was able to build a solution to my first problem in a few hours. Then, given the success of my first application, now we have built other applications that have simplified my team's day-by-day operations and even other teams have asked us to build solutions for them. I was able to build my own custom-made solution at a very small fraction the cost (yearly) that an external vendor quoted to my company for a similar custom-made solution.
While Caspio's built-in templates are great and we're normally ok to go with them, sometimes we'd like to customize views a bit and the interface for customizing/localizing information can get a bit overwhelming. Still, the solution is highly customizable.
Caspio allowed us to automate a few business processes by giving our client direct access to the information they need through a web form. Caspio's database, tasks and triggered actions allow us to have our data organized and updated. Our application have significantly reduced the workload in my team (and 2 others) and converted on of our most time-consuming tasks into something we don't even think about regularly.
The easy support for my needs, I like how I can connect with databases and how I can easy develop applications
There is no much I don't dislike for, but I wish if te price lower.
Solve the problems of creating forms and how we can connect it to tables in very easy way
I do IT support as my primary occupation and have jumped off into application development for a few projects. Caspio is hands down my top choice for low-code solutions. The platform works very well which is of course important, and the ability to do advanced customizations makes it so that Caspio can handle almost any project I can envision. What really sets Caspio apart, though, is the quality of the support experience, which is the very best of the various software companies I work with. Every single one of the technicians I've spoken with has been knowledgeable and helpful and friendly. It seems like several of the support staff aren't based in the US, which in other companies might be a challenge due to language barriers, but not so with Caspio - everyone I've spoken with speaks perfect English and they are all very bright and capable. Shoutout to Luis and Mary and Christian and Carlo and Volodymyr and the other techs I've worked with - top notch support!!! I'm super impressed with the speed of response, too - within moments of starting a chat session I am working with someone to resolve my issues.
The platform uses something called datapages, which is a uniquely Caspio way of doing things, and it took a little getting used to. Now that I'm more comfortable with it, I find that I actually prefer it in many ways to other tools I've used. Certain advanced database features aren't available, such as UNION queries, but that's probably a good thing from a speed perspective. It does make you reimagine how you're going to build things, and what I've found is that there's almost always a workaround that allows you to move forward, probably even better than what was originally intended.
I've used Caspio to build some full-fledged business management applications for customers. For example, I got a call on a Thursday evening from a men's homeless shelter with an emergency need. Their previous software had gone down and was unrecoverable, and they were now unable to keep track of their guest checkins. By Monday morning I had a new solution developed, and by Thursday morning. less than a week after getting the initial call, I was able to put the new system in place, tested and with all their previous data imported. They liked it so well that they had me expand it to accommodate their Women's Center, and then I added on a whole new Point of Sale functionality to manage their Thrift Store as well. The whole project cost less for them to have developed using Caspio than what their annual support cost them for their previous software.
Attentive Customer Success Manager and support staff. The additional available one on one training is great. The pricing structure has a good balance of included features. It is a solid platform.
The logic programming is not as intuitive as I would like. (It might be me, nah I'm awesome...) CASPIO seems to work best when deployed via a hosted sight. I got started in Quickbase years ago and liked their built-in dashboard options.
Caspio allowed me to ditch the multitude of Excel spreadsheets used when I joined the company I work for now. Excel is a great first step, but CASPIO allowed me to take our client services to a higher level. I can now enable our clients to see and interact with their data from where ever they are in real-time.
The clickable interface and flexible tools are easy to use. There are many online resources available to learn how to use the Caspio tool. Most questions can be answered through the online help.
The formatting, if you really pay attention to stylistics (fonts, sizes, positioning) still requires some degree of coding. I was able to develop a workable database but struggled on the final 20 percent of formatting the output as I needed coding assistance.
I am developing a database for subscription. Caspio is flexible and extremely cost-effective in helping to make the data available to a wider audience with ease and simplicity
The ability to build a functioning piece of software with very little to no coding knowledge
some capabilities are not yet available. but I trust they will be eventually
we were able to build our teacher registration platform in a few months. to facilitate licensing
The wizard architecture makes low-code achievable.
Monthly payments are a factor -- but are probably not that much different than the cost of a commercial programming language subscription.
Gathering brief weekly reports from our field workers. Caspio allowed us to write them, prompting them with "last week's numbers."