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JeffPeterson1
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5 years ago
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Pipelines VS Zapier and other services

Can anyone give any reasons why Pipelines is better/different than Zapier or other similar IFTTT services?     I had set up a bunch of automations in pipelines but found the number of steps provide...
Pipelines
  • BlakeHarrison's avatar
    BlakeHarrison
    5 years ago
    Depending on what external systems you're connecting to, Pipelines is not a service I'm comfortable recommending to my clients - yet. For internal automation, sure, but unless it's super simple, my feeling on external is that Pipelines is just too new/limited at the moment. Also, with how limited the system is with regards to estimating cost/steps, identifying usage per pipeline/step, etc., I'm not comfortable pushing a client to use a paid service when all we have access to is a Total Cost, rather than an itemized bill.

    I'm hopeful that their pricing model and billing is made a little clearer in 2021, but we shall see.

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    Blake Harrison
    bharrison@datablender.io
    DataBlender - Quick Base Solution Provider
    Atlanta GA
    404.800.1702 / http://datablender.io/
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MarkShnier__You
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5 years ago
I'm curious if most of your Pipeline Steps are internal Quick Base to Quick Base or external?

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  • JeffPeterson1's avatar
    JeffPeterson1
    Qrew Captain
    5 years ago
    We have a combination of internal and external.   We connect to several outside services to pull info into QB and then update records in outside services from QB.   I think a lot of steps are consumed filtering records from outside systems, but it's difficult to avoid that with what we are doing.

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    Jeff Peterson
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    • BlakeHarrison's avatar
      BlakeHarrison
      Qrew Captain
      5 years ago
      Depending on what external systems you're connecting to, Pipelines is not a service I'm comfortable recommending to my clients - yet. For internal automation, sure, but unless it's super simple, my feeling on external is that Pipelines is just too new/limited at the moment. Also, with how limited the system is with regards to estimating cost/steps, identifying usage per pipeline/step, etc., I'm not comfortable pushing a client to use a paid service when all we have access to is a Total Cost, rather than an itemized bill.

      I'm hopeful that their pricing model and billing is made a little clearer in 2021, but we shall see.

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      Blake Harrison
      bharrison@datablender.io
      DataBlender - Quick Base Solution Provider
      Atlanta GA
      404.800.1702 / http://datablender.io/
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