Airtable Import — Bring Your Base Into a Governed Platform
Connect your Airtable account, choose a base, and SmartSuite creates a new Solution from it—structure and records migrated into relational Tables ready for views, permissions, and reporting.
What Is Airtable Import?
Airtable Import is a SmartSuite capability for migrating an Airtable base into a new Solution: start a new Solution, select Import from Airtable, authorize your Airtable account, and choose the base to bring across. It helps teams moving from Airtable land their existing structure and records in SmartSuite's governed, relational data architecture without rebuilding from scratch. For file-based migrations and ongoing refreshes, the same path is served by Data Import.
Guided Connection
Import From Airtable as a Solution Creation Path
Airtable Import lives where new systems start: create a new Solution, select Import from Airtable, log in to authorize SmartSuite, and pick the base to import. The base's structure and records migrate into a new Solution.
Your migration begins from the same screen as every other build path—template, blank, AI, or import.
File-Based Alternative
Migrate via CSV When You Want Full Mapping Control
Prefer to move table by table? Export your Airtable data to CSV and bring it in through SmartSuite's guided Data Import—mapping columns to Fields, creating new field types during mapping, validating rows before anything lands, and updating existing Records on re-import.
It is the same governed import path used for any external system, with error-checking built in.
Phased Migrations
Keep Systems in Sync While You Transition
Moving a team mid-project? Zapier and Make integrations connect SmartSuite to Airtable for ongoing data flows, so both systems stay current during a phased cutover instead of a single risky switchover weekend.
Migrate at the pace your operations allow, then retire the old base when the work has fully moved.
Airtable Import
Teams outgrow flat bases when work needs governance—permissions, audit trails, and enterprise controls. Airtable Import moves the data so the upgrade doesn't restart the work.
Move a compliance tracker that started life as an Airtable base into a governed SmartSuite Solution—same data, now with role-based permissions and searchable activity history.
Import a departmental risk register and restructure it relationally—risks linked to controls and owners—so scoring and reporting mature with the program.
Bring a vendor-tracking base into a governed third-party register—one Solution where assessments, contracts, and due-diligence tasks connect to the vendors they concern.
Sync the legacy base with SmartSuite through Make or Zapier while the compliance team transitions mid-cycle, then retire the base once new work starts natively in SmartSuite.
Pair Airtable Import with Data Import for table-by-table CSV moves of controls and evidence—validation and field mapping catch formatting drift before it lands.
Teams outgrow flat bases when work needs governance—permissions, audit trails, and enterprise controls. Airtable Import moves the data so the upgrade doesn't restart the work.
It is a Solution creation path that migrates an Airtable base into SmartSuite: start a new Solution, select Import from Airtable, authorize your Airtable account, and choose the base to import. The base's structure and records land in a new Solution.
From the new Solution flow, select Import from Airtable, log in to authorize SmartSuite's access, and pick the base. Alternatively, export Airtable tables to CSV and use Data Import for column-by-column mapping control.
Yes. Export your Airtable data to CSV and use SmartSuite's Data Import—guided column-to-Field mapping, new field creation during mapping, row validation, and update-by-matching for re-imports.
Yes. Zapier and Make integrations connect the two systems for ongoing data flows, supporting a phased cutover where both stay current until the move completes.
Your data lands in a governed platform: role-based permissions down to fields and records, searchable activity history, relational links across Solutions, and enterprise controls like SSO and audit logs on Enterprise plans.
Solution creation methods, including imports, are available across SmartSuite plan types, and the underlying CSV/Excel Data Import is available on all plans. Creating a Solution requires the Solution Creator or Administrator role.
Move Your Base in an Afternoon, Not a Quarter
Authorize, pick a base, and start working in a governed Solution—your structure and records come with you.