RavenApps Grids

What it is

RavenApps Grids is a managed package from RavenApps Limited, a London company incorporated in June 2020, with five employees on its listing profile. It has been on the AppExchange since 24 August 2021. One component drops onto record, app and Experience Cloud pages and serves as a list view, a related list or a live report, and a standalone Explorer tab opens any grid full screen. It ships with more than 40 sample grids to clone. RavenApps also sells DocGen, a separate document-generation product.

How it is built

The grid is a Lightning Web Component calling packaged Apex in your org, and the listing carries Salesforce’s Native App badge. RavenApps’ user guide says it builds on Salesforce’s “LWC Datatable component”, so the table core is Salesforce’s lightning-datatable, with RavenApps’ own cell types on top. Rows arrive 200 at a time as you scroll. No connected app or vendor service appears in its documentation, and its terms state that the service runs entirely within your org.

Each grid is a record on a RavenApps custom object holding a SOQL query and JSON column definitions. A wizard covers the basics; the user guide says the more advanced features need JSON entered directly, and two reviewers say the same. Since 21 September 2026 a new grid can build its columns, query and filters from the object’s compact layout. Conditional formatting works through a Salesforce formula field that returns SLDS class names, added to the grid’s query. Saved views are further Grid records, and a unique-ID field lets grid records be data-loaded between sandboxes and production with page references intact.

What it publishes about its limits

No row ceiling. RavenApps warns that large datasets, many fields or long text may need a smaller batch size to stay inside Salesforce governor limits such as heap size. Salesforce’s own guidance for lightning-datatable is written around 1,000 rows by five columns; that is guidance for the base component, not a measurement of Grids.

There is no row grouping, so summaries are whole-grid totals. There is no undo; Cancel discards every pending edit at once. Pasting a block of spreadsheet cells works only in the Data Import dialog, up to 500 rows at a time. Time fields and classic encrypted text fields are not supported. Keyboard support covers editing keys inside a cell, and no accessibility statement was found. The live user guide describes package 5.26; the current release notes are a separate online document.

Price

$12 per user per month, list price. RavenApps’ pricing page adds yearly billing, 15% for support and maintenance and a ten-user minimum purchase — $1,656 a year at the minimum — though an FAQ on the same page says you can start with one licensed user. An Enterprise tier, priced on request, covers large volumes, Experience Cloud grids and ChatGPT-based AI agents. Nonprofit discounts are advertised without a percentage. The terms bill annually in advance, do not let seats be reduced mid-term, and renew automatically unless canceled 30 days before.

The free production edition withholds Download, freeze columns, editable parent fields, saved views and custom actions. An org that moves from Free to Pro cannot move back.