TrustRadius Insights for Zoho Creator are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, third party data sources.
Pros
Efficient Workflow Management: Reviewers have praised the platform's ability to handle workflows effectively, especially in scenarios where a structured workflow is required. Users value how it simplifies complex tasks and makes operations streamlined for multiple users.
Data Integration Capabilities: Customers appreciate the platform's feature of reading data from various sources and its strong data integration capabilities, allowing for seamless data manipulation and extraction. They find this functionality beneficial for efficient data management.
Versatile Application Development: Users commend the platform for enabling fast and cost-effective creation of applications from scratch, showcasing its versatility in catering to diverse business needs efficiently. This capability saves time compared to traditional development processes while offering customization options.
I use Zoho Creator to create and manage various lite databases to store information. The software is very easy to use and manipulate into any form or spreadsheet style tool you want to use. I currently have 3 different creator tools setup and being used across different departments at our company.
Pros
easy
quick
intuitive
Likelihood to Recommend
For our use of Zoho Creator we only have 2 people that manage the information. It works well that only certain users can edit the information but all users can view the public data. Zoho Creator works well on web and mobile browsing. I have no complaints with the software it does as described and more.
Streamlining internal business processes such as data gathering through forms along with automated alerts, validations, and follow-ups.
Creating customer-facing apps with real-time built-in dashboards.
Leveraging pre-built templates for resource management and support request ticket management
Pros
Pre-built templates are easy to use, detailed and customisable
Mass data import through file or pre-defined email template
user-friendly interface and deluge language
Cons
More customization options or pre-defined functions in deluge
Providing selective app access to multiple users in one go
more API integrations such as MS office suite
Likelihood to Recommend
I was able to pick up app creation practically without any prior training or demo along with customised alerts, notifications and follow-up workflows and created a full-fledged app for an internal process
VU
Verified User
Manager in Professional Services (201-500 employees)
We publish books. About 200 per year. Each book has around 50 separate pieces of data associated with it. Publication date, warehouse due date, printers, print quantities, trim size, editorial team, etc. We use Zoho Creator as our "bible" for all books we own and publish. It is the one-stop source for all authoritative data regarding each title we publish. The entire company uses our custom-built Creator database to maintain ongoing updates of every title, of which we now have thousands.
Pros
Extremely customizable for any need
Excellent options for reports, both public and private
Powerful ability to link databases for deeper sets of data
Very very powerful programming language for custom applications
Cons
Zoho Creator's new version isn't as well documented as older versions. The changes were dramatic so it's hard to find help relevant to Version 5.
Zoho Creator is so powerful, it is sometimes TOO powerful. It can be intimidating if your needs are very basic.
The new version of Zoho Creator was meant to be more intuitive, but after using it compared to the previous version 4, we find it's often more difficult to accomplish the same tasks.
The search feature, while powerful, is also cumbersome. Ideally, it would be simplified if possible.
Likelihood to Recommend
I have a software web app development background, so we considered hand-rolling an in-house MYSQL application for our needs. But, programming a home-grown web app also requires a dedicated programmer and some deep thought regarding specifications. Within just a couple of hours, I developed a tool in Zoho Creator (easily expandable) that accomplished the same tasks. It saved us a considerable amount of frontend and backend programming. Nothing can truly fit EVERY need, so some extremely specialized applications might find Zoho Creator limiting, but for the bulk of normal, everyday database management, Zoho Creator is an excellent tool. The fringe cases where Zoho Creator's off-the-shelf abilities may not be enough could be addressed in a number of creative ways, be it linking to outside data or using their custom programming language to hand-code specific needs. It is very, very powerful. The only place where it may not be appropriate is if someone needed extensive front-end customization (although data can still be pulled using its API for display externally). It may be too powerful for extremely basic needs. Overall, however, it is hard to find fault with this system.
