Add records via Gravity Forms?

[Susan_Gertz1]

I need to use Gravity Forms on my website because it allows me to take Paypal payments as part of completing the form. Can submissions via Gravity forms add records to an Airtable table configured with the same fields?

[Tim_Dietrich]

Hi Susan.

It is possible to integrate Gravity Forms with Airtable, and I’ve done it for one of my clients.

They use Gravity Forms as part of a WordPress / WooCommerce site. I developed a custom integration for them that pulls the data coming in from the Gravity form and stores it in Airtable. It also saves the data to another (non-Airtable) system.

This client’s needs were a little complex, thus the need for the custom integration. If you only need to save the form submissions to Airtable, you might be able to do this more easily (using something like Zapier).

I hope this helps. If you have any questions, please feel free to reach out to me.

~ Tim

[Susan_Gertz1]

Thanks, Tim! Yes, I need to just save the submissions to Airtable. The submissions do involve attachments. I don’t know if that’s a big complication. I’ll look at Zapier.

[Helmi]

You can do that easily via Zapier. https://zapier.com/zapbook/airtable/gravity-forms/

[Susan_Gertz1]

If I have fields that need to have multiple choices selected, will that translate to Airtable? In the spreadsheet generated by responses in Gravity Forms, it creates multiple columns for questions that are permitted to have multiple answers.

[Helmi]

@Susan_Gertz1 using Zapier you can map Gravity Forms results to Airtable fields. I’m sure you can get it done the way you want that way.

[ScottWorld]

Instead of using Gravity Forms, you would be much better served by using Fillout's advanced forms for Airtable.

Fillout is 100% free, and it is way more powerful than Gravity Forms, because it communicates directly with Airtable. Fillout also offers integrated payments for Airtable directly on the form by using Stripe, and it offers TONS of other advanced functionality that people have been dreaming of in their Airtable forms.

Once again, just to underscore how amazing this is: 

- Fillout is 100% free.
- Fillout communicates directly with Airtable.
- Fillout lets you accept payments on your forms, without you having to pay for Fillout at all.

However, if you'd like to stick with Gravity Forms, you can get your Gravity Forms form submissions into Airtable by using Make's Gravity Forms integrations & automations, along with Make's Airtable integrations & automations.

If you stick with Gravity Forms, I noticed that somebody mentioned Zapier above, but I would STRONGLY CAUTION against using Zapier. Make is INFINITELY more powerful & customizable than Zapier, yet it is SIGNIFICANTLY CHEAPER than Zapier. I even 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.

However, as I mentioned above, your best bet for creating forms for Airtable is to work with Fillout’s advanced forms for Airtable.

Fillout is 100% free offers hundreds of features that Airtable’s native forms don’t offer, including the ability to accept payments on forms, update Airtable records from a form, display Airtable lookup fields & Airtable rollup fields & Airtable attachments & formulas on forms, dynamically & conditionally filter linked record fields by any values that you would like, perform math or other live calculations on your forms, accept payments on forms, create multi-page forms with conditional paths, create new linked records on a form, display as many fields as you want to see in a linked record selection list (including attachments), connect a single form to dozens of external apps simultaneously, and much more. 

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

[Stephane-DK]

Hi, you can use our Airtable Add-On for Gravity Forms. Simple to use, integrated to WordPress and very efficient.

https://wpconnect.co/gravity-forms-airtable-add-on/