Marg Caspio

We liked some of the basic features of Caspio, but most of its other promises left much to be desired.

We're not sure what Caspio offers to companies, but compatibility with Wordpress is not among them. We were told by their sales team that there were multiple ways, including plugins and API’s that would allow us to integrate our Wordpress site. In fact, there aren’t. For example, the limit on their API calls per month would not run our app for a day. Neither of these limitations were mentioned by their sales staff, even after repeated questioning about the costs from our CEO.

We had a fully working, functioning prototype in our old database we demo’d for the Caspio sales staff and they claimed they could match all the functionality. In fact, nearly every promise they made was specifically disproven, and, the solution seemed very limited. It’s UI features left a lot to be desired. In the end, we spent over $60k and 9 months before abandoning Caspio. We finally realized the “rathole” was simply not ever going to work. Every Caspio workaround caused another problem.

Their sole resolution was to have their technical staff work with our development team. Each time, they failed to create a reliable workaround. We finally had to walk away from tens of thousands in development costs because we figured out their routine— stonewall until their technology could catch up. It never could. And, tell us that we could upgrade (again to get “that” feature. In the end, this wasn’t true. We upgraded and still, it would not do something simple.

Caspio is good at marketing, and willing to sell you anything. But its a rudimentary, overpriced solution. We ended up with Filemaker again (our old database. It’s newer versions are substantially more compatible, and Web friendly than SAS-based Caspio. Go figure?

Look for other solutions with fewer limitations, and one that will sell you on the product according to its actual capabilities.

We were trying to use Caspio as a web-based -platform. All what we got from it, however, was buggy Eye Frames.

What do you like best?

What do you dislike?

I can quickly find prior audits and eval submitted by myself or others on the team.

Previously, on a different software, I would get emails when something was completed and would know that assigned audits were being completed. Now I have to log in to check.

Application went okay. Not the smoothest

Again, having the prior audits at my disposal helps track progress ans problems for different team members. Same with trainer eval. I can easily review how they are doing and see their strengths and weaknesses.

What I enjoyed with caspio is the great functionality and how easy it is to build tables.

When creating the drop down values in a table, I ran into issues with formatting when exporting the data.

Being able to efficiently collect mounds of data from a large number of people in real time.

Not needing progeamming knowledge is a big plus

Interfaces are still behind the big players

Easy and quick databases tbat dont need it support