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A deep, practitioner-written guide for when native Airtable automations are not enough and you need to decide between built-in triggers, Make, and Zapier. It is honest about where each approach breaks and how to keep a status field as the single source of truth for where a record is. Bookmark it for the moment your simple setup starts needing branching logic.
The complete guide to Airtable automation
From Business Automated by Business Automated 25 min read
- Use a status field as the source of truth for record state
- Native automations first, external tools only when you outgrow them
- Clear triggers prevent duplicate or looping automations
