Quickbase Customers
When Quickbase Starts Holding You Back
Companies running operationally significant apps on Quickbase share a set of pains that cut across healthcare, construction, occupational health, and field services.
License Costs Climbing
Per-user fees rising faster than headcount, with no path to predictable cost. Quickbase repricing has impacted budget and trust in the platform's long-term economics.
Platform Hitting Its Limits
App complexity has outgrown native capabilities, forcing custom code workarounds and integration brittleness. Performance degrades under higher user counts or larger data volumes.
Key-Person Risk
One Quickbase admin or builder maintains everything. If they leave, operations are at risk and the tribal knowledge walks out the door.
Strategic Lock-in
You don't own the platform. Quickbase controls pricing, feature roadmap, and data portability. Your operations depend on their decisions.
Two Paths Forward
The engagement starts with discovery and path selection. From there the path forks.
Extend Your Platform
Your Quickbase apps are working but you've hit gaps. We close them with custom apps, integrations, mobile companions, and workflow automation. No disruption to what's already running.
50+ QB users, capability gaps, integration needs. Budget: $50K-$300K.
Explore extendingMigrate to Custom Software
The licensing math has turned. We rebuild your operational workflows onto custom .NET/C# on Azure. Same processes, transparent to users, predictable cost, no per-user fees. You own the platform outright.
$150K+ annual QB spend, platform ownership concerns, growth outpacing platform. Budget: $200K-$1M+ phased.
Talk about migrationWho We Help
Mid-market operators in any vertical running operationally significant apps on Quickbase.
CIO / CTO / IT Director
Owns platform decisions and budget. Feeling cost pressure most acutely. Often inherited Quickbase from a prior administration or a citizen developer project that grew operationally critical. Wants predictable cost, owned platform, and a vendor with a track record on both QB and modern stacks.
VP Operations / COO
Cares about operational continuity. Knows the platform is critical and worries about key-person risk on the QB admin. Will sign off on cost if the case is made cleanly.
Quickbase Admin / Citizen Developer
Often the original builder. Mixed feelings: pride in what they built, awareness of its limits. We treat them as a technical champion and position the project as evolution, not replacement of their judgment.
How We Deliver
Built on Quickbase AND rebuilt off it
We built WorkSaver on Quickbase and rebuilt it onto custom .NET when the economics turned. Same vendor, both phases. The most credible posture a Quickbase customer can encounter.
Domain expertise across QB verticals
Healthcare risk (CareRise), construction PO automation (Townsend Homes), occupational health scheduling (WorkSaver). We know the verticals where Quickbase gets used hardest.
Flexible without lock-in
Scale up for a sprint, scale down after launch. No 12-month contracts, no bench fees. You get the capacity without the permanent commitment.
AI-enabled development
Our engineers use AI tools in daily workflows to increase velocity. Post-migration, AI modules layered onto your new .NET platform: document processing, conversational assistants, workflow automation.
Proven Experience: Extending Quickbase
We’ve built sophisticated extensions on Quickbase for healthcare risk, construction, and occupational health.
WorkSaver Quickbase Build (2021)
Occupational health company needed self-service scheduling, contract management, billing, and Oracle ERP integration.
Quickbase foundation with .NET extensions and iOS/Android mobile apps. Complex billing workflows automated.
Invoicing reduced from two weeks to one day. Full mobile capability for field teams.
CareRise Risk Management
Multi-site healthcare organization needed a sophisticated risk management platform with mobile capabilities.
Microsoft-based platform on Quickbase with custom code extensions, iOS apps, and ongoing enhancements.
Multi-site healthcare risk reporting. 4.9/5.0 Clutch rating.
Townsend Homes (HMS)
Residential home builder needed to eliminate manual PO creation across the full construction lifecycle.
Custom Quickbase app that auto-generates purchase orders the moment a house is created.
Eliminated manual PO entry across the full PO lifecycle. Zero data entry errors.
Proven Experience: Migrating Off Quickbase
When the licensing economics turn, we rebuild your platform onto something you own outright.
WorkSaver Custom .NET Rebuild (2023)
Quickbase per-user licensing costs became unsustainable as the platform scaled. The same company Susco built on Quickbase in 2021.
Complete rebuild onto custom .NET/C# on Microsoft Azure. Same workflows preserved, transparent to users. Data migration, cutover, stabilization.
Owns the platform outright. Predictable Azure costs replaced rising per-user fees. Same vendor delivered both the original QB build and the migration. THE proof point.
Why Susco vs. alternatives
Three options. One clear winner when you need a vendor who knows both paths.
vs. Quickbase Solution Providers
Focus on keeping you on Quickbase regardless of economics. No migration capability, no custom .NET, no path to platform ownership. If the math has turned, they can't help.
vs. Big SI / Consulting Firms
$300/hr rates, 6-month discovery phases, junior developers learning your platform on your dime. Enterprise process for a mid-market problem.
vs. Susco
Built on Quickbase AND rebuilt off it. Same vendor, both phases. Senior US-based engineers who know the platform, the verticals, and the migration math. We recommend the path that actually serves you.