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This walks the full path: sign up, connect Webflow, connect Airtable, map your fields, and let Synclify run its first sync. Budget about 10 minutes. Nothing is written to Webflow until you approve a preview.

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Before you start

You need:
  • A Webflow site with at least one CMS collection that has fields to fill.
  • An Airtable base with a table whose columns roughly match those Webflow fields.
  • Permission to authorize apps on both accounts.
Your Airtable table should have one column that uniquely identifies each row — a Name, Title, or Slug. Synclify needs it to match rows to Webflow items. See Identity field.

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1. Create your account

Go to the sign-up page and register with an email and password (minimum 8 characters), or continue with Google.

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2. Connect Webflow

Right after sign-up, Synclify walks you through connecting Webflow.
1

Authorize Synclify

Click Connect Webflow. You are sent to Webflow to authorize read and write access to your CMS.
2

Choose your sites

Back in Synclify, tick the Webflow sites you want to sync. You need at least one. Click Continue.
You land on the Connections page. It is empty — that is expected. Once you’ve built a few, it looks like this:
Connections page showing active and paused connections with status badges

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3. Connect Airtable

1

Open Data Sources

In the left sidebar, click Data Sources.
2

Add the source

Click Add data source, choose Airtable, and authorize. Synclify then discovers your bases and tables.

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4. Create a connection

Click Connections → New connection. Four steps:
1

Destination

Pick the Webflow site and CMS collection to sync into.Each Webflow collection can back only one live connection. If it is already taken, Synclify blocks you and tells you to delete the existing connection first.
2

Source

Pick Airtable, then the specific base and table.
3

Map fields

Synclify auto-maps source columns to Webflow fields by name. Review them.Set one pair as the ID field — this is how rows and CMS items find each other. Slug, Name, and Title are detected automatically where possible.Mismatched types (mapping text into a number field, for example) block you from continuing. Fix the mapping or change the field type.Full detail: Field mapping.
4

Settings

Name the connection. Then choose:
  • Sync direction — One-way (source updates Webflow) or Two-way (shared fields update both sides).
  • Sync cadence — Manual only, or add a polling fallback scan. Minimum interval is 5 minutes.
  • Auto-publish after sync — on by default. Synced items go live rather than staying as staged changes.
  • Delete orphaned records — off by default. Leave it off unless you want removing a source row to delete the Webflow item.
Realtime sync is included on every plan and needs no configuration.

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5. Let guided setup run

Synclify does not blindly write into a collection that already has items. It walks you through reconciling what exists on both sides:
  1. Auto pairing — matches existing Airtable rows to existing Webflow items on your ID field.
  2. Record decisions — decide what to do with rows that have no Webflow item, and Webflow items that have no row.
  3. Conflicts — for records that exist on both sides with different values, pick the winner.
  4. First sync — Synclify shows you a full preview of every create, update, and delete. Approve it and the connection activates.
The first sync starts automatically. You are redirected to the connection after a 10-second countdown. Full detail: Guided setup.

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6. Watch it run

On the connection page you see live progress through five phases: Fetch source → Diff records → Write to Webflow → Publish → Done, with running counts of records created, updated, deleted, skipped, and failed. From here on, editing a row in Airtable triggers a sync on its own.

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Next steps

How Synclify works

Sync direction, identity fields, and per-field ownership.

Editing a live connection

Change a mapping safely using drafts.

Running syncs

Realtime, polling, and manual runs.

Troubleshooting

What the errors mean and how to clear them.