How I Manage Ads For My Newsletter With Airtable And Gumroad

My newsletter Design Insight now features a Classifieds section. For a fee, people can buy an ad spot in my newsletter to promote their product or service.

To make this process easier to manage I set up a Gumroad listing and combined it with an Airtable base. With this setup, I’ve automated most of the process to the point where I only need to check in on things once a week.

This article describes how I set up this process including how I created the Airtable base, published a form for user submissions, added automations, and set up the Gumroad listing.

Airtable Setup Overview

User Flow

Here’s the user flow for buying an ad spot:

• A user navigates to the Gumroad listing.
• They read about the ad spot and see the available ad spots from the embedded Airtable view.
• They purchase an ad spot through Gumroad and are redirected to a form where they fill in detail related to the ad spot.
• They fill in the form and press submit.
• Airtable and I will handle the rest including adding it to the relevant…