We need more automations

The easiest way to solve this is to review your current automations to analyze which can be merged together. I would suggest to merge automations based on their trigger: if two automations use the same trigger then they probably can be merged together.

I have had to optimize automation space and usage many times for my clients, if you’d like we can do a quick meet and I can take a quick look and suggest optimizations. Feel free to schedule a meet here: https://calendar.app.google/BDT6pyk35Xk1F9jB8

You can also try asking for additional automations to Airtable support.

​@Good_Ink

I totally agree. 50 automations isn’t enough. Be sure to email support@airtable.com to ask them to please increase the number of automations that they give to Airtable customers.

In the meantime, you can workaround this limitation by creating additional automations with Make’s advanced automations for Airtable.

But here’s the big question — how do you trigger your automations in Make if you’ve already run out of automations in Airtable?

You can do it by creating buttons (or URL fields) in Airtable that trigger an external URL, because each one of your Make automations would start with a custom webhook that gives you a URL for that particular automation.

I show how to use Make’s custom webhooks in this Airtable podcast episode.

And if you’ve never used Make before, I’ve assembled a bunch of Make training resources in this thread.

Hope this helps! If you’d like to hire the best Airtable consultant to help you with anything Airtable-related, please feel free to contact me through my website: Airtable consultant — ScottWorld

Hey ​@Good_Ink,

I fully agree, and I submitted a feature request on that matter some time ago. Now feature requests have changed, and should be submitted via this form. -you might want to fill out the form!

I also wrote a post sharing some tips on how to optimize automations, that you might want to take a look at.

Also, you might want to look into Make, Zapier, or n8n if you are not currently using any of them.

Feel free to reach out if needed.

Mike, Consultant @ Automatic Nation

Thanks for linking to the form, that’s helpful.

I’ve taken a lot of time optimizing our automations and consolidating and we’ve truly run out. There are maybe a handful that could be further optimized but at the cost of functionality. It would be great if 100 automations were the limit.

I’m not as concerned about number of automation runs, more the ability to add more automations and the current Airtable plan structure doesn’t account for that. We would even pay for more automations if we could but that’s not feasible last time I checked with AT Support.

Yeah, just use my workaround above in the meantime.

- ScottWorld, Expert Airtable Consultant