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Era or Make?

Short answerMulti-step, branching scenarios: Make. Business flows that arrive ready and show next to the record: Era.

Make (formerly Integromat) builds complex automations as visual scenarios; it is flexible and powerful. Era’s workflows run on events inside the business and arrive ready for your trade.

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Side by side

The things a small business uses every day. Every row about Make was read on Make’s own site on 18 October 2026; rows we could not check are left out.

Era and Make side by side
Era
Make
Customer records and sales pipeline
Yes
No
Online booking and staff calendars
Yes
No
Online store, stock and orders
Yes
No
Quotes and invoices
Yes
No
WhatsApp, Instagram and email in one inbox
Yes
No
Website on your own domain
Yes
No
Your own tables (database)Make: data stores
Yes
Partly
Workflows on business events
On business events
Visual scenarios across many apps
Pricing
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Make is a trademark of its owner and is not affiliated with Era. Products change quickly — if a row is out of date, tell us and we will fix it.

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.

Sample screen · illustrative data

Switching from Make to Era

An afternoon’s work. If you like, spend the first week using both; nothing switches off at once.

  1. 1Look at the ready flows for your trade in Era.
  2. 2Describe your remaining scenarios to Era in plain words; it builds the flow on the canvas and you approve.
  3. 3Keep Make alongside through a webhook for apps Era does not cover.
Example run · sample data

When Make is the better pick

If you build multi-step, branching scenarios that touch many apps, Make’s visual editor is very capable.

When Era is the better pick

In Era flows like “booking cancelled → a task to fill the slot” come with setup; nothing extra to connect.

Era and Make — questions

If you build multi-step, branching scenarios that touch many apps, Make’s visual editor is very capable. In Era flows like “booking cancelled → a task to fill the slot” come with setup; nothing extra to connect.

Scenarios do not move by themselves. Era’s ready flows cover most business cases and the rest you rebuild in plain words.

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One workspace for your business.

Open Era with your own AI subscription or API key. Turn on what you need and add the rest later — the same workspace on Windows and the web.

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