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Hey all! We are just getting into using Airtable more across the company and are wanting to connect it with several of our existing systems (Sage Intacct, Workday Adaptive Planning, Asana, DocuSign, Google Suite). We are looking into Zapier, Workado, Make, and Power Automate. Do you all have any experience with any of these? Are there any others worth checking out? Thank you!

Hey ​@MGary,

GREAT question. I would highly suggest you look into n8n before paying for any other subscription of the mentioned platforms. N8n can be self-hosted (e.g. in Render) which means that you would pay around $7/mo for pretty much unlimited automations. Other than that, I would look into Make, and I would avoid Zapier.

I wrote a brief article on this here. Feel free to check it out.

Mike, Consultant @ Automatic Nation

My favorite platform is Make.

Regarding Zapier: I would definitely avoid Zapier. Make is INFINITELY more powerful & customizable than Zapier, yet it is SIGNIFICANTLY CHEAPER Zapier.

I wrote an entire post here comparing Make vs. Zapier.

If you’ve never used Make before, I’ve assembled a bunch of Make training resources in this thread. For example, here is one of the ways that you could instantly trigger a Make automation from Airtable.

I also give live demonstrations of how to use Make in many of my Airtable podcast appearances. For example, in this video, I show how to work with Airtable arrays in Make.

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

Hi ​@MGary,

I agree that I would recommend to take care of these integrations with some or more of these resources:

  • Airtable native automations
  • Make.com
  • n8n
  • Custom Python scripts

The choice of these depends entirely on your integrations specific needs.

Be sure to be precise on your data governance to determine:

  1. Where is data being generated
  2. Where does that data get modified
  3. Where do we need that data to be displayed, and with how much time delay?

By setting clear guidelines on how your tech-stack will be used, you can establish the most efficient integrations plan.

For example: when you have a particular data being used in 2 systems, it is easy to simply say that we need to have a 2-way sync. But these can generate problems as for example high costs or un-synced data. In these cases you can generally define that the data will only be modified in one of the 2 systems, and thus a 1-way sync will be fine, and you have just saved on development time and future headaches.

Best regards,

Matt Nixon

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