Unclaimed: Are are working at Knack ?
Knack is a no-code development platform that lets businesses build simple web apps and online databases. The platform lets users import data from spreadsheets or define it from scratch. From there, users can build interfaces to display and manage that data using elements like forms, tables, and searches. Apps can be easily embedded into any website and then further styled or manipulated via jQuery.
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Deployment | Cloud / SaaS / Web-Based |
Support | 24/7 (Live rep), Chat, Email/Help Desk, FAQs/Forum, Knowledge Base, Phone Support |
Training | Documentation |
Languages | English |
The idea of designing a platform of attendance/note taking. It is straight-forward
I feel the apperance could be better. The flow is there but looks, not really.
Attendance. Tracking of data. Data collecting.
The pricing is very reasonable, setting up, using, and managing the software is reasonably easy. Extra points for the ability to set up a nice interface for users with different classes and permissions.
When using calendars, each appointment counts as a record, which can add up pretty fast. Customization could be pushed further, especially for alignment and text formatting.
Nice and solid file management for our clients, with easy-to-use forms for our counsellors, combined with calendars for appointments and related session notes.
Knack is a fantastic way to build your own custom database and front-end web interface. The price sure beats having a developer custom design a database and the features are robust (much better than Caspio and other alternatives!). It's easy to use and very intuitive to build both database tables and front-end pages populated from your tables.
There's not much to dislike about Knack. Still, if I were to mention something, it would be their limited formulas for populating a column dynamically based on existing data in other columns. I hope they add more functions in the future like IF and CONCATENATE.
We're a non-profit organization that plants thousands of trees each year. Knack is powering our forestry database that keeps tracks of all our plots, how old they are, when they are due for a check-up, if there are ongoing problems like disease or bugs that need to be dealt with, etc. It has helped us become more organized, save time, and maximize our tree survival rate!
I like the no-code/low-code environment that Knack provides the developer, giving the capability to create an online e-commerce "store" of data. Had we known about Knack one year ago, I could have saved $3,500 in custom code developer costs.
I think there should be more video tutorials that demonstrate to the prospective new buyer, whether Knack will be something that they try to learn and implement on their own, or whether the Expert Network will be the better solution. Also, I wish that Knack had some business-hours telephone support.
Knack is going to enable us to re-launch our Phrase Database (a compendium of over 3,000 corporate mottos, slogans, and taglines) with a much better user experience, and to do so in literally one-sixth the time that the original (failed) attempt had taken.
The builder and the applications are separate.
Lack of a report wizard, and database self documentation
I help community banks implement internal controls and performance improvement for their payments solutions
Knack is an incredibly fast, powerful, flexible, and reliable tool that has completely transformed the way we run our small business of approx 40 employees. We built one central system on knack to manage all our data and operational processes (company-wide) in one spot online. The transparency, efficiency, and ease of use has been a game changer for us, and I honestly don't know how we would operate without knack at this point. You don't need to be a coder or super techie to understand and use knack, it is very intuitive and well designed, and super adaptable to most scenarios.
Every now and then I will run into a small limitation or want to customizing something that I can't. Overall, the functionality covers the bases for what I need to do the majority of the time.
Knack has solved countless problems for our business, including: dramatic reduction in paper/shift to digital, automatic email reminders to people when they miss an important deadline, aggregating relevant data automatically so we can easily see company metrics and performance at the click of a button, shared access to company data/information but still being able to control levels of user access for each role, the system tells us when we need to invoice a client and emails us an alert, creating a central database for the company and eliminating countless spreadsheets, creating relationships between our data, saving us from data entry, getting our field crew to use tablets to report their information. The list goes on and on... too many solutions to list.
Knack offers a great variety of webnairs that demo which is super useful. It is nice to have access to all inclusive data.
I dislike being logged out from the site occasionally. For a multi tasker like myself, I am going back forth from multiple windows.
There are some bugs on the mobile app that can be easily fixed. Benefits include great customer service.
Speed of use, security, flexibility in building custom apps without code, pricing
My only complaint is that sometimes forms take a long time to submit and the performance can slow.
Building custom applications for various UK / US clients across multi vertical markets
The Simplicity of searching and adding information.
There isn't too much that I dislike about Knack.
We are solving record-keeping and updating issues that we have had in the past.
easy to use for background information on client background/ easy to keep digital forms
sometimes we cant locate client profiles
easy to store information on client skin background. Easy for staff to read prior to service