Caspio Reviews & Product Details

Compared to other systems that we used in the past, Caspio is highly flexible and can be rapidly modified in response to changing program needs. For example, our Federal funder frequently changes forms or questions that we are required to ask of our trainees. In the past we would need to submit changes to a developer and go through multiple rounds of revisions. I am a program evaluator, with no formal training in programming or website development, and with Caspio I can quickly make the changes myself.

Compared to some previous systems Caspio's user interface is more complex, so there was some up-front time required for me to learn the system. But the positive associated with that is a high degree of flexibility. Basic tasks can be set up quickly, but advanced users have more options for greater control over the system's functionality. Overall it seems like a good trade-off.

We use Caspio for three inter-connected functions: an online event registration system for trainees, an event management dashboard and reporting system for training coordinators, and an administrative reporting dashboard for program managers at our central office. Each set of end-users has their own interface, to interact in different ways with the same underlying data.

Ease of use for non-coder personnel. Can set up a basic functioning application with little training.

Mostly a positive experience so far. We don't use the more complex features, and so wish we knew more about the product to maybe take advantage of those aspects.

We mostly use Caspio to develop department-level applications, contracts database, track spend from vendors, on-line sign up sheets for vaccine clinics. It has reduced manual tracking and filing, making employees more efficient.

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."

The best part of Caspio is the fact that there is no need to code anything other than to learn how to click and select the features that you need!

One area that needs improvement though is the layout of the User Interface. It needs to be intuitive so that searching and fumbling can be avoided.

Being able to port an excel spreadsheet to a website where any user can search for their specific data is a tremendous time saving benefit!

Caspio is a very efficient method to develop an MVP. And can easily be integrated into a published website. I like the fact that there is a huge amount of training, and how-to videos. Caspio is pretty intuitive and any time I run into an issue I have been able to get customer support to help me through the issue in a reasonable time frame.

Lets say you need to add a question to a form. It automatically goes to the bottom of the form. Then you have to click the up arrow to move that question up one row at a time. On long forms this becomes really redundant and cumbersome. If I could easily add a question to the middle of a form by dragging and dropping that would be great. Or if I could select multiple questions at once and move them all at once that would also be great.

I needed to rapidly build a database that people could sign up to and enter various types of data. I needed to do this with no other team members and for very little overhead. I have been able to do that. There is so much more functionality on Caspio than I am currently using so that is great to know there is more for me to grow into.

Basic funtionalities for creating an application are very easy. Caspio is convenient to use and it's easy to create a new application from scratch very quickly.

Downsides are related to the fact that it's a low code platform - which means you should choose other options if you aren't looking for a low code solution. Price for the easy entry is limitations with more complicated systems.

Most valuable features were related to built-in features like registration and account management. These made it fast to create safe systems for users that are handling sensitive data.

Fees are fair, the system is clean and easy to use, support is fast and awesome. The relational database aspects was a challenge, but the Caspio team walked me through it so I could move all our data from QuickBase to Caspio. They provide a lot of videos and written documentation for nearly every step. They also have fast, live chat help, as well. What more do you need?

Like anything new, it takes a while to get up to speed, but the included expert sessions are really good. I wish their charts looked more professional, but they are as good as Google Charts

We used QuickBase for over 10 years, but their fees kept increasing and support became useless. Switching to Caspio took a lot of work for me as I'm not much of a programmer, but the low-code aspect works well and the support was awesome. Overall, Caspio has been paying off nicely. Everyone in our group likes how clean and easy it is to use. Giving them extra features has been easy.

Caspio has been unparalleled in its usefulness to my department -- helping me create applications that would have taken my IT department years to create -- and not as well.

I would love to be able to easily copy rows of data -- similar to an Excel environment. I have to do a lot of copying and pasting (if I am not doing an import). There is also a lot of scrolling across the screen -- I want to be able to hide columns in my tables when working on the backend tables.

We have been able to create searchable databases for internal company information using various dashboards. We have been able to easily do reporting on large amounts of data. Adding and removing users is very easy as well.

Reliability, ease of use for non-programer

there are some quirkes, which I have found work arounds.

I can develop and offer Saas products