SmartSuite is a Work Management system built to help teams deliver projects and run smarter business processes. It's part spreadsheet, database, next-gen document solution, project management system, and productivity tool - all wrapped in a friendly visual interface that takes minutes to learn.

The result is a common work space for all your projects, processes and everyday tasks that makes it easier for teams to work together.

You can always choose to create brand new Solutions from scratch, but we offer a full Solution Library of pre-built industry class templates that make it easy to jump start your processes and see your use case with real demo data.

Selecting “Start from a Template” will allow you to browse SmartSuite’s library of solution templates, which include more than 200 pre-built solutions that support a variety of project types and business processes.

These Solutions are grouped into three categories:

We recommend starting with a template. Simply click + on the home page and choose Start with a Template to open the Solution Library. Search or browse solutions by Category, and click into any template to see a live, interactive preview of the solution.

Just click "Use Template" when you hover over a template card and the solution will instantly be added to your workspace.

SmartSuite is built on a first principle belief: No two businesses are exactly alike. That's why we make it easy to quickly tailor templates to fit your needs.

As a Workspace Administrator or Solution Manager, you can easily Add or Modify Fields in a Table.

Consider the Hiring template, which has a number of unique values in the Status field. Perhaps you want to flag a job Applicant as someone to consider for a future position. From the Edit Record view, click the Status field "..." menu and select Modify Field Settings. From there, you can add a new status value for "Consider for Future Positions" and track candidates for future roles.

Take a quick tour on the Structure of SmartSuite if you'd like, but generally you'll want to understand some basics:

One of the most powerful features of SmartSuite is the ability to link Solutions together, combining the information they store to tackle virtually any type of task, project or workflow.

Many things that organizations do as part of their everyday work involve several functions, departments or types of data. A sales department might interact primarily with Customer and Order records, while the operations group needs Inventory information - along with information about customers and orders - to be able to send out shipments.

Let's sketch out how this might look in SmartSuite. Suppose that you have a Sales solution and an Operations solution, as in the diagram below:

If you already have sales and order information in the Sales solution, it wouldn't make a lot of sense to duplicate that data in the Operations solution. Instead, we can connect the solutions and share that information to build a complete picture of the entire lifecycle - with no redundancy!

All that it takes is a special SmartSuite field Type called Linked Record.

Linked Record fields allow you to connect SmartSuite records together, and those records can be in any Solution.

For example, in the scenario we described above, a Linked Record field connects the Customer and Orders Tables, letting you add an existing customer record to an Order - and see all of the customer's orders from their account record.

Then we show the real power and flexibility of SmartSuite - the Operations Solution uses Linked Records to connect existing Customers and Orders with shipment tracking. Two Linked Records do the trick, linking all three Tables together across two Solutions to give you a clear picture of the entire process.