MAKE GUIDES

From your first automation to a workflow you can maintain.

Choose what to build and where to begin with Make. Find the next step across 24 guides on setup, pricing, practical workflows and ongoing operations.

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01

Start here

Understand the basics and build one practice workflow.

What is Make?

Capabilities, suitable workflows and checks before adopting it.

Your first setup

Create your first scenario and prepare for a safe rollout.

02

Choose a plan and platform

Compare your requirements, usage and alternatives.

Pricing and plans

Check allowances and limits when choosing a plan.

Estimate credits

Estimate usage from volume, steps and retries.

Zapier vs Make

Compare workflow setup and billing units for the same job.

Make vs n8n

Compare operations, flexibility and maintenance work.

03

Build around a task

Choose the input, destination and notification, then test a small case.

Form responses to Slack

Read recorded responses and notify your team with the relevant fields.

Send confirmation emails

Check recipients and sent status to avoid duplicate messages.

Log email in a spreadsheet

Filter incoming mail and store each message once.

Send deadline reminders

Select due records by checking dates and reminder status.

Form responses to Notion

Map form response fields to Notion properties.

Notify on Drive uploads

Choose the watched folder and check sharing before notifying.

Build a weekly report

Collect rows for a defined reporting period into one report.

Classify enquiries with AI

Separate uncertain results and route them for human review.

Send AI summaries for review

Keep source text alongside draft summaries for human review.

Connect a site with a webhook

Define the incoming fields and verify the sender.

04

Understand scenario building blocks

Understand triggers, branching and processing multiple items.

Polling vs webhooks

Choose a trigger around delivery behavior and checking intervals.

Branch with filters and routers

Define conditions and check when multiple routes can run.

Use iterators and aggregators

Understand splitting arrays and collecting processed results.

05

Recover, maintain and hand over

Plan how to handle duplicates, failures, connections and usage.

Prevent duplicate writes

Define idempotency keys and the scope of a retry.

Recover failed work

Recover after checking failed and already completed steps.

Diagnose connection and permission errors

Distinguish expired authorization from destination permissions.

Investigate credit spikes

Compare execution history and item counts with your estimate.

Stop, hand over or cancel

Check scenarios, connections, unfinished work and subscriptions.

BEFORE GOING LIVE

Define success with practice data first.

These guides explain setup and acceptance checks using official documentation. They do not report live account tests, timing benchmarks or measured credit use. Interfaces, permissions and usage depend on your connections and plan; work through these checks before launch.

Create practice destinations and connect only the permissions you need.
Check one valid item, empty input, duplicate delivery and a failure partway through.
Compare stored records and notifications with execution history, and record usage.
Define how to stop, what to retry and who checks the results before enabling it.