Increasing number of automations per base

[MC2021]

Hi Airtable product team!

Is there any way to get more automations per Airtable base? We’re a small but growing company that runs our entire Customer Success and Project Management teams on Airtable. We use the automations to ping the right folks (different Customer Success folks) on Slack as a project moves through different stages, and we just hit our max of 25 automations per Airtable base.

We would love to stick to Airtable (we love it so much), but if we can’t have more automations tied to it, we’ll have to figure out other tools as we scale. Help!

[Michael_Andrew]

Linking to Automations limit too low

[Bruce_Halliburt]

Does anyone know if the 25 automations limit applies to all automations or just the “active” ones? I can see us hitting the limit soon, but we could manage by switching them on and off at certain times…

[Bill_French]

Bruce_Halliburton:

we could manage by switching them on and off at certain times…

I’m LOL’ing because, by definition, this is no longer “automated”.

[Bruce_Halliburt]

Haha! Yes I guess - or you could think of it as Switching on a machine to get ready to do work…? Depends on the use-case of course.

[ScottWorld]

Until Airtable addresses this 25-automation limit, along with the other gigantic (and possibly catastrophic) limit of never being able to increase the number of automation runs in a month if you exceed the limit:

I would recommend turning to Integromat, which is a professional low-code automation platform that has full 100% Airtable support, and doesn’t have ANY of the automation limitations that you will find in Airtable or Zapier.

p.s. Note that I am a professional Airtable consultant and a Registered Integromat Partner, and the Integromat link contains my personal referral code. If anyone needs help implementing Integromat and has a budget to pay for a consultant, please feel free to reach out to me through my website at scottworld.com.

[Bill_French]

Bruce_Halliburton:

you could think of it as Switching on a machine to get ready to do work…?

Also known as manual processing; the opposite of automated processing. Feel free to build all sorts of “automations” and leave them off until you want to manually run them.

Generally, automated solutions create hyper-advantages in profitability, precision outcomes, data timeliness, and competition. If Airtable truly cares about helping users achieve these business attributes, they will dispense with this silliness and find a way for the platform to deliver consistently on this promise.

[Olpy_Acaflo]

ScottWorld:

I would recommend turning to Integromat, which is a professional low-code automation platform that has full 100% Airtable support, and doesn’t have ANY of the automation limitations that you will find in Airtable or Zapier.

I admit that I finally tried INTEGROMAT after feeling that I lacked the time to write a lot of GAS myself, although I was clearly inspired to (learn to) write it and I think it will still make sense once I have tested a first workflow with the help of NoCode by collecting feedback and reading my logs in my sheets.
After a brief familiarisation with this INTEGROMAT environment (through an infinite number of online tutorials), after one hour and then two terrible hours of trying to connect my personal Google account (paid-tiers 100 GB storage) without success using procedures as cumbersome as setting up an EC-two before finally hoisting it to the level of Google Workspace, a river of pleasure was waiting for me!
Indeed Airtable Support by Integromat seems very rich, and extensive, without having made use of everything either before writing these lines.
INTEGROMAT is a Nocode and Automation experience that already leaves me very enthusiastic: the UX is fighting in the lead with Airtable outstanding on this point as well.
INTEGROMAT complete Airtable with the NoCode as I dreamed it would be!
I will tell you more about it soon, with examples, if I have time, because it is obviously easier to copy and paste Code than Scenarios full of parameters.

oLπ

[ScottWorld]

That’s great to hear! :slightly_smiling_face:

[Michael_Andrew]

My experience is that it is 25 total, turned on or off. That makes the 25 limit even more ridiculous. Why does the number of automations even matter? It’s the number of runs that use significant resources.

[Bruce_Halliburt]

Ah, that’s a shame. Automations are relatively new so hopefully the lovely people at AirTable will increase the limits before too long.

Meanwhile, most of my automations trigger scrips when records enter views, so in theory I just need to make the view filters cover a wider range of conditions and code the extra logic at the top of the scripts. So far none of the automations have used more than 10% of the max run-time or memory so shouldn’t be a problem…