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# 🔒 Airtable Personal Access Token

To sync your Shopify store with Airtable using SyncBase, we need access to your Airtable account. This requires two key elements: your Workspace ID and a Personal Access Token.

# How does the Airtable Personal Access Token work?

A **Personal Access Token is a secure key that allows third-party apps like SyncBase to interact with your Airtable account**. This includes tasks like creating bases, pushing data, updating records, and more.

__The token is defined by two components__:
* **Scopes** – what actions the app is allowed to perform (e.g., read, write, delete).
* **Access** – which environments (workspaces and bases) the scopes apply to.

# Why do we need full Access & Scopes

When you connect SyncBase to Airtable, we need full access to:
* **Generate the base**: create a new Airtable base or use an existing one to receive your store data.
* **Manage records**: continuously create, update, and delete records during synchronization.
Without these permissions, SyncBase can’t perform the sync operations properly.

||| You can [restrict access once the base generation is finished.](#1-how-to-restrict-access-after-base-generation) But you can't restrict scopes. If you do it, the synchronization won't work.

# Your Airtable Token is tied to an account, not a base

It's important to understand that a Personal Access Token is linked to the **Airtable account that created it**, not to a specific base.
This means that if the user who generated the token is later removed from the base or workspace, **SyncBase will no longer be able to access or sync data**, and synchronization will stop working.
That’s why we recommend using a token from an account that will remain active and maintain access to the synced base.

# How to restrict access after base generation

**After your base has been successfully generated** and the sync is up and running, you can limit access to only the specific base used by SyncBase.

| Once access is restricted to a single base, SyncBase will no longer have visibility into any other workspaces or bases in your Airtable account.

### Step by step

1. Go to your [Airtable Personal Access Tokens](https://airtable.com/create/tokens) and find the one you’re using with SyncBase.
2. Edit the token permissions:
    * Remove access to `ALL RESSOURCES` (also named `All current and future bases in all current and future workspaces, and HyperDB tables`)
    * **Grant access only to the synced base:**
    * If SyncBase created a new base: look for `Shopify Shop`
    * If you used your own base: select the base you connected (e.g., `YourBaseName`)
3. Click on the `Save changes` button.

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