Era or Notion?
Short answerWriting your team’s docs, notes and projects: Notion. Running customers, bookings, orders and invoices: Era — and they work side by side.
Notion is a much-loved workspace that brings notes, docs and databases together. Era is a business system: customers, bookings, orders and invoices are ready modules and your own tables link to them.
Side by side
The things a small business uses every day. Every row about Notion was read on Notion’s own site on 18 October 2026; rows we could not check are left out.
Notion 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 Products change quickly — if a row is out of date, tell us and we will fix it.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.
Tables/OrdersSwitching from Notion to Era
An afternoon’s work. If you like, spend the first week using both; nothing switches off at once.
- 1Export your Notion database as CSV.
- 2Import the customer list into Era as leads and the rest into Tables.
- 3You can keep your docs in Notion.
When Notion is the better pick
If internal docs, a wiki, meeting notes and project plans come first, Notion’s writing experience is very strong.
When Era is the better pick
In Era customers book and pay on your site and write on WhatsApp, and it all lands on one customer card. In Notion that takes templates and connections.
Era and Notion — questions
If internal docs, a wiki, meeting notes and project plans come first, Notion’s writing experience is very strong. In Era customers book and pay on your site and write on WhatsApp, and it all lands on one customer card. In Notion that takes templates and connections.
No. Docs and notes can stay in Notion while customers, bookings, orders and invoices run in Era.
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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.