Getting started with Make.
Make is the screen where you build the flow. This guide is for someone who has never opened an account.
Create the account
Sign up with your email. The button on this page is an affiliate link. The account is yours, and Make does not charge you extra because of it.
Make’s pricing page, checked in November 2026, says the free plan includes 1,000 credits a month. A credit is one module action. When they run out, scenarios pause until you add credits.
Scenario, module, and trigger
A scenario is the whole flow. A module is one block: one reads the sheet, another sends the message. The trigger is the first block. It starts the scenario when new data arrives or when the clock says so.
Make’s docs put it this way: a trigger watches for a change and brings that data in. You add it once, at the start.
Connect Google
In the left sidebar, open Scenarios. At the top right, click + Create a new scenario. The giant plus in the center of the canvas lists apps. Search for Google Sheets and choose a module, such as Watch New Rows.
Click Create a connection, name it, and click Sign in with Google. Pick the business account and allow access. Make saves that connection for the next scenario.
Run it once
In the Scenario Builder toolbar, Run once runs the scenario by hand. A bubble above each module shows how many actions it completed. Click the bubble to see the data.
To let it run on its own, click Every 15 minutes on the toolbar. In Schedule settings you can pick Daily or Weekly, then Save. A new scenario stays inactive until you click Activate scenario.
When it fails
Open the History tab, find the run, and click Details. The module with a warning sign is the one that broke.
If Make kept the unfinished run, it is under Incomplete executions. Click Details to read the error. A dropped connection can be retried. A bad field mapping has to be fixed on the module.
Recipes for this
- Draft a Google review request when a job is marked done
- Keep a daily sales log from Square in Google Sheets
- Log Shopify orders in Google Sheets and flag big ones in Slack
Where to build it
Official pages
- Create your first scenario
- Add your first app
- Create a connection
- Types of modules
- Schedule a scenario
- Test the scenario
- Incomplete executions
- Make pricing
- Make credits
Questions
- Do I need to code?
- Not for this guide. Create the account, connect Google with Sign in with Google, and run the scenario with Run once.
- Is the free plan enough to try?
- Make’s pricing page says the free plan includes 1,000 credits a month. Most actions use one. When they run out, scenarios pause.
- Is the Make button an affiliate link?
- Yes. The account is yours. The n8n links in the other guide are not affiliate links.