Chapter 1. Signing Up and Taking a Quick Tour
The hardest challenge you’ll ever face with QuickBase is quickly describing what it is. A highly customizable database? A workflow management system? A Web site that can make your working life a whole heckuva lot easier? Yes, yes, and yes.
Because it helps with so many different tasks, QuickBase doesn’t fit neatly into the program categories we’re used to talking about—database or spreadsheet programs, contact managers, or project management applications, for instance. But whatever you want to call it, at heart, QuickBase is an amazingly powerful and endlessly customizable database, whose greatest tools are offered up to you, lucky QuickBase user, even as you’re shielded from some of the highly technical underpinnings that power everything it can do.
Whatever information your business relies on, QuickBase lets you share it easily with those who need it. QuickBase provides a secure, centralized place to store, work with, and share data: reports, specifications, spreadsheets, price lists, client information, work orders, invoices, purchase orders—any kind of data your organization uses. So wherever your team members are, they can get on the Internet, sign in to QuickBase, and view, add, and edit data. They can submit billable hours, track leads, share documents, submit and prioritize change requests—whatever. QuickBase’s flexibility lets you create forms that work for your business and display your data in a variety of different ways, using ...