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Real-time Shopify translations sync with Airtable

  • January 26, 2026
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Théau12
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Hi Airtable builders!

In previous topics, I shared how you can sync your Shopify metaobjects, metafields, and even Products & Variants with Airtable in real time.

The good news: you can now sync your Shopify translations with Airtable too (thanks to SyncBase).


How does it work?

  1. During onboarding, you can choose which languages you want to sync.

  2. The app creates dedicated fields per language (e.g. Title (EN), Description (FR) …) inside a new Airtable base — or an existing one if you prefer.

  3. Each record represents a Shopify object (Product, Variant, Metaobject entry…), and each locale is editable directly from Airtable.

  4. Any update you make in Airtable is instantly synced back to Shopify — and vice-versa ⚡

It works for all supported Shopify translatable content (Products, Variants, Metafields, Metaobjects…) and everything stays fully in real time.

 

Here is a 45 sec demo 👇


 

A few use-cases from our first beta-testers:

  • Centralize all Shopify translations in one Airtable base

  • Use Airtable automations or AI to pre-fill or review translated content

  • Bulk edit or QA translations across multiple locales

  • Monitor missing or outdated translations per language


You can try the integration for free here: https://apps.shopify.com/instant-import-export

And as always, I’d love to get your feedback here (having some insights from the Airtable community and confirmed builders is truly helpful) 😄

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Flow Digital
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  • January 28, 2026

Hi ​@Théau12 

Quick question, How does this handle conflicts if someone edits translations in both Shopify admin and Airtable simultaneously?


Théau12
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  • January 28, 2026

Hi buddy! 

We have a system that proceed the oldest update first, a bit like a queue (first in first proceed). 

On hundreds of users and millions of updates we never had the exact same time for 2 updates on the same object. 

Already that updating the same object on both tool is pretty rare, doing these updates at the exact same time is almost impossible.