Send form responses to Airtable

1. Connect Airtable and choose which bases Nextforms may use.
2. Add an Airtable step to the form’s workflow. Create a table with a field per question in one click, or pick one you already use.
3. Share the form. Each response arrives as a record, with the response number and a link back to it.

A table in one click, or the one you have

Create a new table from the step and it gets a field for every question, each with the right type, already mapped. Or pick a table you already use: questions are matched to its fields by name, and anything missing is one click away.

Your table stays yours: Nextforms only adds a field when you ask it to, and renaming or rearranging fields in Airtable doesn’t break anything.

Every answer in the right type

Numbers go into Number fields, so Airtable can sum and sort them. Ratings up to 10 show as stars. Dates go into Date fields, with the time in your team’s time zone. Choices become single and multiple select options, a yes/no becomes a checkbox, and email addresses, phone numbers and links land in their own field types. Each record starts with the response number and a link back to it in Nextforms.

Uploaded files, attached

Files from an upload question, and signatures, are attached to the record, so they open from Airtable itself. Airtable keeps its own copy.

Edits update the same record

When a respondent corrects their answers after you send the response back for changes, the workflow runs again, and the record written the first time gets the new answers. Only the fields the form writes change, so notes and statuses your team added in Airtable stay. Prefer a new record per version? That’s one switch.

Your table as the options

Airtable can also feed the form: a question can offer the records of a table as its options, kept up to date without publishing again. See forms with database choices.

Part of a workflow

The Airtable step sits in the same workflow as everything else, so it can:

• write only the responses that pass a condition, such as budget over 5,000
• write to a different table per branch of a route
• run after an approval (Pro), so only approved requests reach the base
• send the confirmation email and post to Slack in the same run

Each run shows the record it wrote, and a failed one says why, with a retry once it’s fixed.

Good for

• Lead and client intake: every enquiry as a record the sales team can work.
• Hiring: applications with their CV attached, straight into the tracker.
• Orders and requests: submissions your team can assign, filter and report on.
• Event sign-ups: a guest list with every detail in its own field.

See the Airtable guide for the setup, step by step.