Era or Airtable?
Short answerBuilding every process yourself: Airtable. Bookings, invoices and orders ready, with your own tables linked to them: Era.
Airtable lets you build databases and business apps with spreadsheet ease; it is extremely flexible. Era’s Tables give similar flexibility, while bookings, shop, invoices and customer cards arrive as ready modules.
Side by side
The things a small business uses every day. Every row about Airtable was read on Airtable’s own site on 18 October 2026; rows we could not check are left out.
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What it looks like in Era
This job has its own screen in Era, in the same workspace as customer cards, the calendar, the inbox and the AI. The screen below is Era itself, with sample data.
Tables/OrdersSwitching from Airtable to Era
An afternoon’s work. If you like, spend the first week using both; nothing switches off at once.
- 1Export your Airtable table as CSV.
- 2Bring it into Era’s Tables and pick the field types.
- 3Keep what are really customers, bookings or orders in Era’s ready modules, the rest in tables.
- 4Re-link linked fields in Era.
When Airtable is the better pick
If you want to design your own processes from scratch and your team can build and maintain them, Airtable is very powerful.
When Era is the better pick
In Era bookings, invoices and orders are ready modules; your own tables link to them. Customers book and pay on your own site.
Era and Airtable — questions
If you want to design your own processes from scratch and your team can build and maintain them, Airtable is very powerful. In Era bookings, invoices and orders are ready modules; your own tables link to them. Customers book and pay on your own site.
Yes; import by CSV or sync through Google Sheets. Linked fields need re-linking in Era.
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