Zapier vs. Make: Pros and Cons

[ScottWorld]

Make is the vastly superior platform to Zapier.

I have written up a post on Make vs. Zapier here:

https://air.tableforums.com/t/make-vs-zapier/737

[ScottWorld]

Great news! In regards to Zapier not being able to trigger multiple times for the same record, I have discovered 2 workarounds to this issue.

They’re not complete “solutions”, but they’re relatively acceptable workarounds.

I describe more in this thread:

Workarounds for overcoming Zapier's "New Record in View" limitation Development and integrations

One of the big limitations for Airtable users who are trying to use Zapier is that we only have 2 triggers: “New Record” and “New Record In View”. The problem with “New Record in View” is that it will only trigger once for the entire lifetime of the record (in that view). But I have discovered some pretty cool workarounds! In regards to Zapier not being able to trigger multiple times for the same record, I have discovered 2 relatively acceptable workarounds to this issue. (Meaning that these …

[Mariusz_S]

Fantastic overview for anyone starting with either :pray:

ScottWorld:

But here are some of the advantages of Zapier:

1. If you accidentally rename a field in Airtable that is used by your automations, Zapier always recognizes the renamed field and continues running perfectly fine. Integromat does not recognize any renamed fields, so your Integromat scenario will break & stop running from that point forward. So Zapier is way more reliable in these regards.

In that sense zapier has a huge advantage over Integromat.

[ScottWorld]

Mariusz_S:

In that sense zapier has a huge advantage over Integromat.

Integromat has told me that they are going to be fixing this problem very soon! :slightly_smiling_face:

[ScottWorld]

As of October 9, 2020, this field-renaming issue is now fixed in Integromat! :slightly_smiling_face: Along with a whole bunch of new additions to Integromat’s Airtable support! Full list of functionality & new changes are listed here:

Integromat Support

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