Airtable is a favorite among ecommerce teams for good reason. It’s flexible, visual, and powerful — perfect for tracking products, managing launches, or building internal dashboards. But getting your Shopify data into Airtable can be frustrating. There’s no native integration, and most third-party tools are either too rigid or too expensive.
That’s where Arigato comes in. It connects Shopify and Airtable directly, so you can automate product and order syncs without exporting CSVs or relying on manual work.
Why connect Shopify to Airtable?
If you’re managing a fast-moving catalog or coordinating with vendors, Airtable gives you a clean, customizable workspace. You can:
- Create product launch timelines
- Monitor inventory and price changes
- Tag items for internal review
- Track order fulfillment status
- Collaborate across marketing and ops
With powerful filters, views, and formulas, Airtable helps make Shopify data useful — especially for teams that don’t live in the admin every day.
But syncing Shopify data is tricky
Shopify doesn’t offer a native Airtable integration, and the platform’s export tools only go so far. You can pull a product list or sales report, but:
- The data goes stale quickly
- It takes time to clean and format
- Manual updates introduce errors
Most app connectors for Airtable are limited in what they can track, don’t support Shopify-specific conditions, or are priced for enterprise use. You need a solution that works in real time and puts you in control.
What you can send from Shopify to Airtable
Product data
Arigato can monitor product-level changes and push fresh data into Airtable — including:
- Product title and ID
- Vendor and product type
- Tags, SKUs, and variants
- Price, inventory, and status
This makes it easy to maintain a live catalog view or coordinate price updates across teams.
Order data
You can also capture details like:
- Order number and date
- Customer name and email
- Line items and payment status
- Fulfillment and shipping info
Use this to build fulfillment queues, customer issue logs, or sales dashboards without switching between platforms.
Custom events
Because Arigato has full access to Shopify triggers and data, you can track nearly anything:
- Refunds and returns
- Customer tag changes
- Draft order updates
- Metafield edits
- Inventory threshold alerts
If Shopify can detect it, Arigato can send it to Airtable.
How Arigato makes the Airtable connection work
Flexible Airtable integration via API
The Arigato → Airtable integration uses Airtable’s official API — no middleware or file exports. You choose the table and columns. Arigato fills in the data based on any fields you want from Shopify.
Whether you're tracking orders, products, or something custom, you’re not locked into a fixed schema. It works with your existing Airtable base.
See the help doc: Airtable integration setup
Trigger from any Shopify event
Want to track only products from a specific vendor? Or log orders over $500? Arigato lets you trigger workflows based on:
- Product updates
- Price or inventory changes
- New or updated orders
- Tag or metafield conditions
- Specific SKUs or variants
You define the rules. Arigato listens for them and sends the exact data you need.
Send structured records in real time
Instead of waiting for a bulk export or syncing on a schedule, Arigato sends records to Airtable as soon as an event happens. It’s near-instant and supports:
- Conditional logic
- Delays
- Branching paths
- Multi-step workflows
That means you can update Airtable while also sending a Slack message, tagging a customer, or emailing your team — all in the same flow.
Workflow example: Track product price changes in Airtable
Price changes can be hard to monitor — especially across large catalogs. One small mistake can erode your margins or confuse customers. Arigato makes it easy to log every price change automatically.
Use this workflow template: Track price changes → Airtable
It watches for product price changes in Shopify, then creates a new row in Airtable with:
- Product title and handle
- Previous and current price
- Date of change
You can use this for auditing, approvals, or historical tracking — no spreadsheets or exports required.
Build your ecommerce backend with Shopify and Airtable
Airtable is a powerful backend tool for ecommerce, but only if the data flows in the right way. With Arigato, you don’t need to hack together exports or pay for rigid third-party tools. You get full control over what data moves from Shopify to Airtable — and when.
Whether you’re tracking pricing changes, managing product data, or organizing orders, Arigato gives you the automation power to make Airtable part of your real-time operations.
To start building your first workflow, check out the Arigato integration for Airtable.