Connect your Airtable database.

When this is done, your site can save what visitors submit — contact forms, bookings, sign-ups — into a database you can open and read like a spreadsheet.

1. Create a free Airtable account. Go to airtable.com and sign up (the free plan is plenty to start). Airtable is a friendly database that looks like a spreadsheet — your site will store things like form submissions in it.
2. Create a base. From your Airtable home screen, click "Create" and start from scratch. Name it after your website (e.g. "Rivera Lawn Care"). A "base" is just Airtable's word for one database.
3. Find your Base ID. Open your base, then look at the web address: it looks like airtable.com/appXXXXXXXXXXXXXX/…. The part that starts with "app" is your Base ID. Copy it somewhere handy.
4. Create a personal access token. Click your profile picture (top right) → Builder hub → Personal access tokens → "Create token". Name it "My website". Under Scopes add: data.records:read, data.records:write, and schema.bases:read. Under Access, add the base you just created. Click Create — the token starts with "pat". Copy it NOW (Airtable shows it once).
5. Paste both into Mission Control. Open your portal → Settings → Connectors → "Connect a service yourself" → Airtable database. Paste the token and the Base ID and press "Check & connect". We verify the token actually works against your base before saving anything, then set it on your hosting and redeploy — done.