Prevent duplicate submissions in Airtable
Prevent duplicate form submissions from being saved to Airtable using Fillout.
Enable duplicate prevention
Navigate to the Integrations tab and select
Airtable
. Then, connect to your Airtable account.![notion image](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.notion.so%2Fimage%2Fhttps%253A%252F%252Fprod-files-secure.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com%252F2a7ed980-5add-4b51-82ab-889415f57134%252F6aa49d06-4181-4ed9-968d-080b5baac2d3%252FScreen_Shot_2023-09-13_at_4.06.34_PM.png%3Ftable%3Dblock%26id%3D266aff48-802a-4d82-9eaa-a76336b11e41%26cache%3Dv2&w=3840&q=75)
Note: This feature is available to Business and Enterprise users. For more details on pricing, click here.
Under Advanced, enable the
Prevent duplicates?
toggle.![notion image](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.notion.so%2Fimage%2Fhttps%253A%252F%252Fprod-files-secure.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com%252F2a7ed980-5add-4b51-82ab-889415f57134%252Fb68261f7-2fa9-4a1d-93d4-80e59341345f%252FScreen_Shot_2023-09-13_at_4.10.28_PM.png%3Ftable%3Dblock%26id%3Da58a71bd-a21a-4877-bc3e-271de430c2f3%26cache%3Dv2&w=1920&q=75)
Choose a field in the dropdown. In this example, we will prevent submissions from getting saved to Airtable if they match another entry in the Product name field.
![notion image](https://www.notion.so/image/https%3A%2F%2Fs3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com%2Fsecure.notion-static.com%2F8906815c-e6fd-432b-9201-2f03adb70833%2FUntitled.png?table=block&id=8f43a49f-eea7-4929-8210-1c3d11a4ac6a&cache=v2)
That’s it! Your form will no longer create duplicate entries.