Forest Admin
About Forest Admin
Forest Admin Pricing
The Pro Business Plan is priced per tranche of 10 users.
Starting price:
$48.00 per month
Free trial:
Available
Free version:
Not Available
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Most Helpful Reviews for Forest Admin
1 - 5 of 22 Reviews
Jessica
Verified reviewer
Leisure, Travel & Tourism, 11-50 employees
Used daily for less than 12 months
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed June 2019
Excellent software
The simplicity of setting up Forest to be tailored to your specific needs. It's straightforward for non-developers to use, works quickly and any issues are resolved speedily. One of the best systems I've used.
CONSThe font sizing is a tad small, but nothing that can't be solved with a zoom.
Vendor Response
Thank you so much for your review Jessica! Happy to see that Forest Admin is helping Day Out With The Kids provide aventures for kids and their family in the UK! Feedback regarding our font sizing has been logged and shared with our product team btw :)
Replied October 2019
Maddison
Marketing and Advertising, 201-500 employees
Used daily for less than 12 months
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed July 2019
Happy Engineer!
My experience with Forest Admin has been spectacular. While exploring Forest Admin as a potential option for my company roughly a year or so ago, I was given prompt answers to any questions that I had. I was even able to talk with an engineer from Forest over a phone call for direct technical answers.
PROSHow plug and play it is. We have a Postgres DB and had absolutely no issues with setting up our development and production environments. A CMS that would have taken us months to build was available to us in minutes!
CONSAnother team at my company was unable to use this software because their DB instances were spread out amongst different AWS regions. As far as we could tell, Forest Admin could not support that sort of DB architecture.
Reason for choosing Forest Admin
For us, the ease of plug & play plus the flexibility of Smart Actions and Smart Views sold us.
Vendor Response
Thank you so much for your review Maddison!! We're thrilled to be able to bring value to ThriveHive's team. We strive to getting each and every of our customers prime support to maximize your input over a short period of time and hope our community brings this level of proximity one step closer!
Replied October 2019
Yoran
Verified reviewer
Computer Software, 2-10 employees
Used daily for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
3
EASE OF USE
4
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
4
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed December 2018
Promising solution for an admin panel
Forest has become an important tool in the day-to-day workflow of our company. It's a shame there are some technical issues but I'm confident they can fix those.
PROSFor one, the zero-configuration is awesome. In our case, we installed the gem into our Rails app and the interface was immediately populated with all the records in our app. Secondly, the smart actions provide invaluable customization that has become crucial for the productivity of our support team. Those two are the biggest strengths of Forest.
CONSTechnically the platform is somewhat unstable. Small things break fairly often and also the user interface does not feel smooth. I expect them to iron out those things in the future.
Vendor Response
Thanks a lot Yoran for your review! That instant wow effect is indeed something we aim for. The past few months we managed to significantly improve the stability of the platform - hope you like it!
Replied June 2019
Laurent
Computer Software, 2-10 employees
Used daily for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed July 2019
I don't start a new software project without installing Forest Admin anymore
Forest Admin lets a tech team provide a fully functional back-office to their operations team in seconds.
PROSThis software has been part of my default stack for any new software project since I discovered it 3 years ago, while it was still in early development. Our operations team at Briq use it daily to answer questions and solve customer issues. The Forest support team is super responsive. The product improves daily and they listen a lot to customers for feature requests. Contrary to what happens with a custom coded admin interface, Forest Admin allows us to offer a splendid experience to our operations team without investing too much resources. Even better, thanks to Forest Admin, our admin interface becomes better over time while our developers can focus on customer facing improvements.
CONSForest is super customizable so you can achieve almost anything by coding a custom Smart Action/View/Collection/... but I would really like some bulk editing capabilities to be added out of the box.
Reason for choosing Forest Admin
The alternative would be to develop our own back-office functionalities. This would end up costing a lot of resources for a result that would be inferior and would require some maintenance over time. A no brainer to me.
Vendor Response
Thank you, Laurent, for helping us to improve our product! Being able to bulk edit records out of the box is indeed a great feature. Let me add this to our product roadmap .
Replied July 2019
Oren
Retail, 2-10 employees
Used daily for less than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
4
VALUE FOR MONEY
4
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed June 2019
Excellent dashboard for mongoose users
Great, some of the layout design is hard to learn, but once you get used to it this dashboard is a very powerful tool.
PROSVery easy to plug-in. Very useful by the non-programmers in our team that could not handle alternative solutions like robo3t.
CONSSmart views require knowledge in Ember - not a very common platform. My team would like to see something like "React" in the future. Pre-save mongoose hooks are ignored by forestadmin "save" operations. There should be an option to download and save layouts (maybe as json files?) and configure the dashboard to automatically load the layout on reboot, so for example when I release a staging version to production, the production layout will be updated automatically.
Vendor Response
Thanks a lot for your review! We indeed aim to also empower non-programmers in your team. Regarding the Smart Views, we are working to be able to support React as a platform soon! We will reach out to you for your feedback for your insights are very valuable.
Replied June 2019