grist for SMALL BUSINESS
Database-spreadsheet software for small business
Say goodbye to spreadsheet woes with Grist’s flexible, no-code database that adapts to how you work, and scales with your business.
One platform, many business solutions
Flexible and powerful enough to meet cross-functional needs such as expense tracking, payroll, project management, sales & more.
Expense tracking for teams
No more wrangling employees’ expense spreadsheets into a master list every month.
Share one master spreadsheet with specific permissions so employees only see their own expenses.
Summarize expenses by month and employee in colorful charts.
Payroll
A simple payroll tracker that captures different pay and raises for employees and contractors.
Formulas calculate wages.
Summary tables (pivot tables) automatically update with new data.
Account-based sales
Help your sales team track accounts, contacts, and deals.
Specific permissions limit sales reps access to only their deals, contacts, and accounts, while giving their manager access to everything.
Visualize deals and sales rep performance through charts and reports.
Flexible and intuitive
Drag-and-drop layouts
An intuitive page builder for data workflows and visualization.
Granular access rules
Bye bye messy spreadsheets. Share one copy with granular permissions, limiting who can see what.
Pivot tables + charts
Summarize and visualize data with a few clicks.
“I love Grist. It’s crazy powerful. I still can’t believe what we’ve been able to achieve in it. It’s the dream that low-code was sold as for years – we can do incredible things in each column with Python and we can build our own widgets to run on those! Wild!”
Elliot Lee
User Researcher
“Grist has become our go-to for more complex, structured data. It sits somewhere between Excel and Access—powerful, relational, and flexible enough for prototyping real data-driven applications.”
Olivier Lambert
CEO at Vates
“The more I use Grist, the more I LOVE it. I have been surveying self-hosted database GUI tools, and I was consistently disappointed with their shortcomings or bugginess. Grist is the first to have tilted the balance the other way.”
Stephen S.
Publications, Personal City Guides
“Grist has given us incredible flexibility to solve data problems and find solutions, whether it is for a small team at the district, or at scale with the entire district staff. We’re really excited about the different ways we can use it going forward.”
Director of Product
EdTech Company
“What I like about Grist the most is its focus. It appears simple, but it’s very powerful in a focused way. Grist has really improved our workflow and communication.”
Chris Scott
Co-founder in Digital Marketing
“If people spend some time learning a new tool they’ll have more power to do their work and research. I said to one of my students, ‘You will be very very happy using Grist because you are miserable using Excel!'”
Eduardo Dalcin, Ph.D.
Biodiversity Informatics Expert
“Most CRMs don’t work the way Grist works. Grist’s layouts are simple and do exactly what we need.”
Jennifer Bledsoe
IT Tech at Law Firm
“I discovered Grist after becoming frustrated with the limitations of Excel and Google Sheets. Grist has been a breath of fresh air, especially with its ability to handle structured data in a way that feels familiar to anyone with experience in relational databases, but with the added flexibility of Python.”
Will Bailey
Small Business Manager
“Sharing an Access database is near impossible, but Grist makes sharing a relational database simple.”
Walt Rice
IT Consultant
“I needed an open-source master database that could connect to n8n and AI tools. After trying Notion, Airtable, Siyuan, Baserow, and NocoDB, I chose Grist for its Python-native AI support, flexible integrations, and simple n8n connections.”
Robin A.
Project Manager
“I’ve worked extensively with NocoDB, Notion, SeaTable, and Baserow, and Grist really stands out. The balance between spreadsheet-style flexibility and structured, low-code database design is excellent.”
Andriy Kostyuk
Automation Engineer, Founder at Enceladus