Grow Reviews

Grow is easy to get started with and is quite powerful with an intuitive, easy to use interface. It has automatic connections for the data sources our department uses and allows me to visually provide useful and insightful data to multiple teams. It is so easy to customize the metrics and I like the fact I can specify which users have access to which dashboards, and what their permission levels can be.

The connection with Marketo isn't as stable as I would like and I can't pull in as much data as I was hoping to. This has more to do with Marketo than Grow. I get around it by uploading weekly Smartlists for metrics that's don't need to be viewed daily, or only really need to be viewed on a monthly basis. For daily metrics, I restrict the pulls to 7 or 14 days and things work well most of time. Marketo is the only data source I have ever had problems with - all the other connections work flawlessly

Grow is a user-friendly, advanced tool that has allowed our company to fully understand metrics from every department. It is incredibly powerful in its ability to pull in data from every platform we use and compare the data against each other in every imaginable style of metric. The customer support is very helpful, and they will not only help you solve your problem, but advise on best practices - helping you learn how to work better in the software.

The new feature releases they make are very powerful, however they require quite a bit of manual work to implement. We almost have to overhaul all our dashboards & datasets in order to utilize the new features.

Just design your metrics once and upload your rough data (no matter the source) with the desired frequency afterwards to get your charts updated in a few seconds

Now way to select European settings for decimal and thousands separators

This software allows for the majority of your data to be accessible within Grow's platform. The abilities to transform the data and present it in a professional, and aesthetically appealing way is critical. I've enjoyed the ability that Grow has to leverage a lot of the functions and abilities available in Excel and other database querying languages inherently in their builder.

Without a knowledge of SQL, many data sources are rendered useless or very cumbersome to retrieve meaningful data. Many of the lesser know data sources do not (understandably) have metrics pre built and ready to add to dashboards, therefore, inspection of the data sources and knowledge of SQL transformations and joins are required to achieve the right data for what's needed.

I have been using Grow for over a year now and I am in it every day. When initially researching realtime dashboard systems I was drawn to Grow because it offered all of the integrations I needed as a digital marketer. It was extremly easy to learn how to setup the metrics and to integrate multiple data sources such as advertising spend versus customer data from Salesforce. The recently added a variety of new capabilities to allow for the user to modify the data present using filters which has come in very handy when presenting to clients.

The only drawback I can think of is I would like to have more flexibility with customizing the visuals with the size of the fonts and having a few more options with the types of charts.

How easy it is to import information from so many sources; and that setup of metrics is easy but we have the option to be as complex as we want/need.

We use our metrics from laptops to TVs displayed around our offices. There is no way to know how large or small the metrics are on any given device. I wish that we had a grid or template so that the dashboard can be customized for a specific resolution or screen size without hours of trial and error.

- Cross connect data and from different sources and view them in one dashboard. Eg. CRM with Facebook ads
- SQL made easy- the software is so easy to use that you end up running SQL queries without even realizing it
- Easy, digestible dashboards to share with the rest of the team
- Amazing onboarding, training, and customer success team. They make sure you're all set up
- Easy set up of LTV graphs and modeling

- If you're not an analytical person or comfortable with numbers, it will be difficult for you to ramp up.
- Steep learning curve- but so worth it!

The ability for Grow to do data calculations was transformational for us. Our prior dashboard software could only display data exactly as it was fed in, it wasn't able to calculate & manipulate data . Grow's ability to take multiple data sources, do calculations/formulas and then display the result is phenomenal.

I put three stars for "ease of use" because although Grow is amazingly powerful when it comes to gathering data and manipulating it, building each metric can be challenging.

In my eyes though, ease of use is somewhat of an expected trade-off when you add features, in this case, to gain the amazing data manipulation power Grow offers.

Grow is great for creating dashboards to summarize information from various resources, other databases, spreadsheets etc. It's helpful to summarize and edit the data to help people visualize the information.

You need to have a good grasp of computer programming to fully take advantage of all the features Grow has to offer. Its not for the most novice users.

We have data living in all sorts of places around the web; from Salesforce to Google Docs, all of our data is at our fingertips. I've created multiple metrics that allows us to ask the right questions about how our firm is growing.

A lot of their metrics can be built using simple commands they call "transforms" but some of it still requires knowing SQL which can be a bit of a pain if you don't know any.

Ease of links to your data to include, excellent support for adding links they don’t show as supported (they contact our software companies and get the needed details to connect), the BEST value in dashboard systems we have seen!

We have had issues and they were quickly addressed and thus we have no cons at the moment!

The way we are now able to display and see our company-wide metrics from several data points has been immensely useful in our long-term business planning and in guiding our short-term strategic initiatives. We are now able to organize our data and display it in ways that are effective and easy to understand across the entire staff and we have seen increased motivation and productivity based on the availability of information as a basis for our business decisions.

There is a learning curve to creating the metrics but the company provides all the resources needed to become proficient in its use quickly.

The tool has many ways to break down the data for my team. Very simple to use and quick to stand up a metric/dashboard quickly.

There are some glitches that I've noticed (more recently since the update to Grow 6). One big one is that if I am in a metric and a co-worker jumps into the same one, they can inadvertently delete my work. It would be great to have some sort of feedback to notify me that another user is in the same metric.

It is very easy to integrate and there are plenty of integration opportunities. Once the data is in Grow you can manipulate it to reveal the key opportunities to grow your business.

It is on the pricy end of the options in its space but I haven't seen a better solution out there.

The company seems to use and care for the product they are building and it shows with each update.

I would like to be able to create a custom grid and have the metrics display in that grid at all screen sizes. Right now it is difficult to re-size metrics to fit properly on the big screen.

Ease of connecting other SaaS platforms to bring data into Grow and how you can then configure the data for the outputs you require.

Support from Grow has been fantastic.

Grow has a very intuitive interface that gives all employees instant knowledge where we are going and where we can improve.

We have a few KPIs that we don't trust 100%

After I rough start, we wanted to understand what we were doing wrong. So did an audit and find that sales and lead management was not in our industry standards. We took to resolve the problem so hired more people, improved pitch and implemented a new lead strategy. Nothing really worked as expected, the numbers were still very low.
Then we got to know what grow.com did and helped us see the whole puzzle and realised that the mistakes we made were in branding and marketing, attracting the wrong target public and confusing with another competitor. After this we are profitable at last.

From our experience grow.com was great, being able to analyze everything and have data on absolutely everything.

Grow is easy to use and has a very pretty UI. I think the product is sufficient for most business needs.

As a Hubspot shop we don't love the integration there. It's weird because Hubspot is an investor in Grow.

This software has helped our company reduce the amount of resource-hours it takes to build reports on a weekly or monthly basis. It allows us to pull data from multiple sources and generate reports that auto-update and are more accurate than relying on a person to interpret the data correctly. It has allowed us to be able to focus on other important items that will grow the business rather than spend time pulling data into numerous reports.

Some of the APIs for certain platforms don't provide the data you are looking for.

I like the ease with which direct integrations are made, and also the wide variety of third party providers with which Grow integrates directly. I also appreciate very much the frequency with which it allows us to refresh metrics.

I believe that the things that I like the most is the flexibility to modify graphs, fonts, font sizes, axes limits, and overall metric visualization. I think that Grow is a little plug-and-play in that sense but a bit more of freedom to modify metric visualization would be great.

We are a metrics driven company with several important data sources and Grow lets us put our key metrics in one dashboard.

It requires a developer to set it up and is not super flexible in terms of display options.

Helps our clients gain insight into their marketing and business to help us leverage their data to take their marketing to the next level.

wish I could do dynamic date ranges on metrics.

Easy to use. Tons of great ways to pull in data.

Have experienced moments of really slow performance.

The simplistic way it can be organized and viewed, while still being able to give us all the information we need without having to build anything beyond our Excel sheets or take the information from our existing internal platforms.

I wish some of the font could be changed as far as size and colors to have it be more of an aesthetically inviting display.