Caspio Reviews & Product Details - Page 8

The 'no code' environment is amazing. We can make changes to data pages with ease, preview them, and see if the change we did works, and then re-tweak it to make sure it's correct. It is reasonably fast and doesn't seem to bog down much at all. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It is hard to find developers who understand all of the ins and outs of Caspio. While the basic stuff has a very small learning curve, finding where to do things *, i.e., lookup tables*, calculated fields, and some other platform nuances, are unique and challenging. Even 'seasoned' and experienced Caspio developers have issues at times that are frustrating to resolve. The Caspio support is helpful in most cases, but sometimes they are not as thorough as they should be. In our particular case, we had a unique authentication issue. We had written support and got a very dismissive and vanilla answer to the problem. Our three developers could not resolve it for the life of them, and it was causing issues with registering our users. As our business is growing dynamically, this is problematic. Luckily for us, we got a new account rep, and she just happened to 'check-in on us' when taking over for a colleague. She was AMAZING. She tasked a senior developer who did a screen share with us not 24 hours later, and we resolved a HUGE issue in less than an hour.

Overall, it is a great platform, but even those familiar with it are not completely familiar with it, and at times you will need to find a good support liaison to solve some issues. Caspio is great in many ways. One more thing that is a bit disappointing is their front-end tools/widgets. IF Caspio could integrate something like JOT FORMS front end-user tools, it would be hands down the best solution ever. You can use javascript for some of these things, but that typically brings in yet another developer. Ugh.. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Caspio has enabled our team of financial analysts create and deploy data collection databases for running our financial benchmarking business. We don't need to be programmers with Caspio, just reasonably-good database users. We have created several client-facing applications and internal systems for management tasks. Features such as workflow and email automation gives us the ability to deploy high-quality, high-functionality sites and instantly make changes. If we were paying a developer for this work, we could not afford it, in terms of time and dollars.

Caspio has an amazing set of features and has just improved every year in the 8 years we have been using the system. It is our "go-to" application for any new ideas and we are constantly amazing ourselves with the flexibility and functionality of Caspio. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

A bit of a learning curve to get up to speed, but it is not too bad. If you have good Access skills, you can generally figure out Caspio. To build advanced functionality, it helps if you have some JavaScript experience. Caspio does not document ALL that you can do, however, the online community is very supportive and helpful. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

MOST HELPFUL IS THE CUSTOMER SUPPORT THAT IS ALWAYS A REAL HELP. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

AT TIMES THE HELP CENTER HAS OLD INSTRUCTIONS THAT ARE NO LONGER AVAILABLE AND IS NO INFORMATION ON HOW TO GET UPDATED INFO, SO I HAVE TO ASK THE HELPDESK FOR HELP. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I was impressed with the tool. I was able to get up and running within a couple of weeks of training. Online videos and how-tos were beneficial. I looked at several other options and am happy with my decision. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

My only issue is how it is integrated with the web front end. It does not work well with content management systems (WordPress, Drupal, etc.). They recommended that I use straight html rather than a CMS; however, this does add some overhead. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The wizard architecture makes low-code achievable. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Monthly payments are a factor -- but are probably not that much different than the cost of a commercial programming language subscription. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Creating tables with versatile data types. Possibility for quick datapages. I like everything abt caspio. Although I didn't get time to do much but it's amazing Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I want to know how to raise a ticket.

Also I will have to be highly xpert in using caspio to be able to judge it's down sides. My experience until now is amazing Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The flexibility this platform provides by not having to be a professional developer is key for keeping IT resource costs under control. I do not have experience with competitors, but after working with the platform for a year and a half, I have no interest in seeking other solutions at this time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There are a few drawbacks, such as triggered actions not functioning with bulk imports, however this is something that I believe is on the horizon. Import automation is a bit clunky but I imagine the Caspio team is working to improve this portion of the platform as well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The most helpful component to Caspio is its support system. When I get stuck on how to do something, I go to chat and very quickly they solve my challenge. When I have some complex scenarios to solve such as having 2 y-axis on a chart that use different scales, they came to the rescue. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The least favorite thing about Caspio (though not a dislike by any means) is creating multi variable charts with multiple axis because it does require knowledge of code that I've been able to get Caspio support to do. So while that isn't easy, they did it for me, so for me, that was easy. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.