Hello and welcome to Yeeflow’s guide to getting started! If you’re wondering how or even if your team should use Yeeflow, what makes it different from a BPM software, or what a “low-code platform” means, then this guide is for you. We’ll walk you through everything you could possibly need to know about Yeeflow, including answering one big question…

In short, Yeeflow is a platform that makes it easy to build powerful, custom applications. These tools can streamline just about any process, workflow, or project—and best of all, you can build them without ever learning to write a single line of code. (Spoiler alert: that’s what low-code/no-code is all about.) Our customers use Yeeflow to do everything from tracking job interviews to managing large-scale production, and thousands of companies use Yeeflow to run their most important business processes every day.

So how does one platform help accomplish all that? At its core, Yeeflow allows you to easily create a application that holds the information that matters for your work, then use it to power the visualizations, processes, and integrations that make up a custom application that’s truly unique to you.

Moreover, most of the low-code/no-code platform can only be used for internal, or external only, while Yeeflow can be used for both internal collaboration across multiple departments, and connect with external users with service portals. You can also leverage the public form to collect data from individuals. And, all the data and workflows will be managed in just one platform.

We know that “building an application” can sound like a tall order, but we promise that with this guide, a little effort, and Yeeflow, you’ll be creating your own tool in no time.

We’ll get into more details below, but here’s a glimpse of what’s possible with Yeeflow:

Normally, if you wanted to create an application on your own, you’d need a slew of software engineers and a lot of time. But when you’re building in Yeeflow, you’re taking advantage of a flexible and powerful database that was built from the ground up to cater to your most complex and specific workflows. You’re the one who knows those workflows best, and that’s why with Yeeflow, you get total control over the application you’re building, software engineer or not.

Many processes break down when people are required to update the same information in multiple places. This not only leads to frustration and misalignment, but also keeps your team from doing impactful work.

With Yeeflow, you can centralize all relevant details with the robust components and by syncing information from different applications. And you can rest easy knowing that when your team has an update, it’s shared instantly with those who need it.

For example, if your product team is keeping track of progress in a “Roadmap” application, their partners can automatically access the most up-to-date version. This allows cross-functional teams like marketing or customer support to move related content and campaigns forward based on the latest update—without waiting for a weekly status meeting or an email. That way, your team is making decisions based on information as it changes in real time, not hours or even days later.

Your team can get stuck spending time creating, drafting, and editing dashboards and presentations. And, by the time they’re ready to present, the data has changed.

You can create tailored dashboards in Yeeflow that automatically pull in the latest information from all your data sources. For you and your team, you might use customized views like calendar, Kanban, or Gantt to surface relevant information for the team to take action on. And for your executives, you can use apps to create a dashboard with real-time charts and summaries, and beautiful reports that show the most relevant information.

Continuing with the roadmap example, your team can work from a Gantt view to ensure that all your product milestones are aligned. Then, you can create a status updates dashboard to share with leadership that will show any milestones at risk and days remaining in the project.

A data table view for new tasks that are being managed and produced.

A Kanban view that shows the stage and status for each task.

A summary dashboard that shows the number of tasks as well as status.

The built-in workflow engine, can slow you—and your team—down. Time spent communicating that a brief is ready for the next stage of approval or that a social post is ready to schedule keeps your team from focusing on critical decisions that drive work forward.

Yeeflow has built-in automations that can help your team focus on your end goal and get there faster. Automations allow you to create rules that automatically trigger specific actions, so that you can take repetitive tasks and hand them off to Yeeflow with just a few clicks.

Building off the product roadmap example above, you can create an automation to notify cross-functional team members if a launch date changes so they can adjust their plans accordingly. This helps your team move faster by ensuring everyone is on the same page and can execute on their work, without the extra overhead.

Working in Yeeflow can improve how your team works for processes and projects of all sizes. Above, we’ve dropped in some pretty complex examples to show what is possible with Yeeflow , but by no means do you need to start there. With a few simple steps, you can build the foundation for your own custom application—and Yeeflow is highly flexible, so you can level up whenever you’re ready. We’ll be here to guide you.

Now you know what’s possible, let’s get started by defining the first thing you’ll build the first thing you’ll build in Yeeflow.