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folk Make integrationAutomate folk with Make.

Can Make keep your folk contacts up to date for you? The folk Make integration gives you 10 modules: 2 instant triggers and 8 actions on people and companies. This guide shows how to link your account, build a first scenario and pick the right module each time.

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What you can automate

What does the folk Make integration let you automate?

The folk Make integration links your folk workspace to Make, a no-code tool where you chain apps together. Make can react when a person or a company changes inside a folk group, and it can create, find, read or update those records for you, with no code and no manual copy and paste.

New leads land in folk on their own. A form, a spreadsheet or another app sends a contact, and Create a Person adds it to the right folk group. Before that, Find a Person can check whether the same email is already there, so the group stays free of duplicates.

Company records stay in sync with the rest of your stack. Watch Companies fires the moment a company changes in a group, and Make can pass that change to a billing tool, a shared table or a team channel. If you also work in Airtable, the Airtable Make integration covers the other side.

Account details get enriched without retyping. When another tool stores a contact's folk ID, Get a Person reads the full record, and Update a Person writes the new details back onto it.

Know the limits before you start. The folk app in Make has no module to delete a record and no Make an API Call module, so anything beyond these 10 modules needs another route. The same app often exists in n8n too; the n8n vs Make comparison helps you weigh the two, and the Make training walks you through your first builds.

Connect

How do you connect your folk account to Make?

  1. 01

    Create an API key in folk

    Open your account settings in the folk web app, go to the API keys section (it may read Developer Portal), create a new key and copy it from the window that appears. You need an active folk account for this.

  2. 02

    Add a folk module to your scenario

    In Make, add any folk module and click Create a connection. A connection is your folk account linked to Make once, then reused by every folk module. You can type a label in Connection name, which helps when you manage several workspaces.

  3. 03

    Paste the key and save

    Paste the API key you copied from folk, or follow the instructions Make shows on screen, then confirm. Make now reads your folk groups and lists them in the module fields, so you pick a group instead of typing its name.

First scenario

Your first scenario: send new leads into a folk group

GoalWhen a new lead arrives in another app, Make adds it to your folk group as a person.

  1. 01

    Create the scenario

    From the Scenarios page, create a new scenario and click the big +. A scenario is the automation you build: a chain of modules that runs on a schedule or when an app calls Make.

  2. 02

    Pick the source of your leads

    Search for the app that collects your leads (a form tool, a sheet, your website builder) and choose its trigger module. Connect that account the same way, then fill the fields Make offers.

  3. 03

    Add Create a Person

    Click the + to the right of the first module, search for folk and choose Create a Person. Select your connection and the target group, then map the lead data from the first module into the fields Make lists.

  4. 04

    Test with Run once

    Send one test lead through your source app, then click Run once. Each module shows the bundles it received, a bundle being one item passed along, here one contact. Check that the person appeared in the folk group.

  5. 05

    Set the schedule and switch on

    Open the clock on the first module. A new scenario checks every 15 minutes by default, and the Free plan cannot go below that. Adjust if you need to, then switch the scenario on.

Triggers

What can start a folk scenario?

2 modules start a scenario when something happens in folk. A scheduled trigger is checked by Make on the scenario's schedule; an instant one is called by folk as soon as it happens.

folk1Watch Companies

Watch Companies

Instant trigger

In Make“React to changes in companies within a group.”

Watch Companies starts your scenario as soon as a company changes inside a folk group you pick, so the rest of your tools learn about it without anyone copying data by hand. Each change reaches Make as one bundle holding that company.

How it fires
instant, folk calls Make through a webhook the moment the change happens, so there is no polling interval to wait for.
When to use it
your sales team edits target accounts in folk and your invoicing or reporting tool should reflect the same company details.
Watch out
click Create a webhook before the connection, and pick the group that matters: the trigger watches the group you choose, not your whole workspace.
folk2Watch People

Watch People

Instant trigger

In Make“React to changes in people within a group.”

Watch People gives your scenario a live signal on contacts: every time a person changes inside the folk group you chose, Make receives that person and runs the next modules. It is the natural entry point for anything contact-driven.

How it fires
instant, folk alerts Make through a webhook right after the change, with no clock involved.
When to use it
a recruiter or account manager updates a contact in folk, and a spreadsheet, a newsletter tool or a team channel should hear about it straight away.
Watch out
if a later module of the same scenario updates people in that same group, you may fire the trigger again and create a loop, so write to a different group or another app.
Modules

What can Make do in folk?

folk gives you 8 modules. For each one: what it does for you, when to reach for it, and what to watch out for.

folk1

Create a Company

Action

In Make“Create a new contact Company in your folk group.”

Create a Company adds a new company record to the folk group you select, filled with data from earlier modules. Your account list grows without anyone opening folk to type it in.

When to use it
a deal is signed in another tool and the client organization should exist in folk right away.
Watch out
this module always creates, so run Find a Company first if the company might already be there.
folk2

Create a Person

Action

In Make“Create a new contact Person in your folk group.”

With Create a Person, a contact coming from a form, a sheet or an event tool becomes a person in your folk group, ready for follow-up. It is the module most lead-capture scenarios end on.

When to use it
someone books a demo or fills a signup form and sales needs the contact inside folk.
Watch out
it never checks for an existing record, so pair it with Find a Person to avoid twins.
folk3

Find a Company

Action

In Make“Find a company within a group by matching exactly their name or one of their emails.”

Find a Company tells you whether a company already exists in a group, matching the name or one of its emails exactly. You get the record back and can reuse its ID in the next modules.

When to use it
before creating or updating a company, when all you hold is a name or an email address.
Watch out
the match is exact, so a spelling variant or an extra suffix in the name returns nothing.
folk4

Find a Person

Action

In Make“Find a person within a group by matching exactly their full name or one of their emails.”

This module looks up a person in a folk group from their full name or one of their emails, which is usually all an incoming lead carries. The result gives you the folk record to update or enrich.

When to use it
a new form entry arrives and you want to know whether that contact is already in folk.
Watch out
only exact matches count; a nickname or a typo in the name means no result, so prefer the email when you have it.
folk5

Get a Company

Action

In Make“Get a company within a group by their ID.”

Get a Company pulls one full company record when you already know its folk ID. No guessing on names: the ID points to a single record, so you get exactly that company back.

When to use it
a previous module, such as Watch Companies or Find a Company, handed you an ID and you need the rest of the details.
Watch out
without an ID this module has nothing to work with, so it rarely sits first in a flow.
folk6

Get a Person

Action

In Make“Get a person within a group by their ID.”

Reading a contact in full is the job of Get a Person: give it the folk ID of a person in the group and Make returns the whole record for the following modules to map.

When to use it
another tool stores the folk ID of a contact and you need fresh details before sending an email or updating a sheet.
Watch out
the module expects an ID, not a name; use Find a Person when you only have a name or email.
folk7

Update a Company

Action

In Make“Update an existing Company in your folk group.”

Update a Company rewrites an existing company in your folk group with newer data, so the record your team sees matches what your other tools know.

When to use it
a billing or enrichment tool learns something new about a client and folk should show it too.
Watch out
you need the right company first, usually from Find a Company; pointing at the wrong record replaces its values with the new ones.
folk8

Update a Person

Action

In Make“Update an existing Person in your folk group.”

When a contact detail changes in another tool, Update a Person carries that change onto the existing folk record instead of creating a second one.

When to use it
after Find a Person confirmed the contact exists, to keep folk aligned with your form, support or event tools.
Watch out
using it right after Watch People on the same group can trigger the scenario again, so keep that pairing out of one flow.
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FAQ

folk and Make: common questions

01Is the folk Make integration free?
Yes, on the Make side. folk is a standard app, so its modules work on the Make Free plan, which counts every run of a module as one operation. The Free plan allows 2 active scenarios, a minimum of 15 minutes between scheduled runs, up to 5 minutes per execution and files up to 5 MB. Paid plans lift the interval to 1 minute and remove the cap on active scenarios. You still need your own folk account and an API key, and folk sets its own pricing, which this page does not cover.
02What do you need to connect folk to Make?
You need an active folk account and an API key. Create the key in the folk web app under your account settings, in the API keys or Developer Portal section, then copy it from the window that opens. In Make, add a folk module, click Create a connection, optionally name it, and paste the key. For Watch Companies or Watch People, click Create a webhook before creating the connection, because those two triggers receive alerts from folk.
03Do the folk triggers in Make react in real time?
Yes. Both folk triggers, Watch Companies and Watch People, are instant triggers: folk calls Make through a webhook as soon as a company or a person changes in the group you selected. Make does not have to check on a schedule, so the scenario starts right after the change. Scheduled triggers work differently, with Make polling at an interval that defaults to 15 minutes, but folk has none of those. Instant triggers show a lightning badge in the editor.
04What if a folk module you need is missing in Make?
It depends on the gap. The folk app in Make offers 10 modules: 2 triggers and 8 actions to create, find, read and update people and companies. It has no Make an API Call module and no delete module, so you cannot reach the rest of the folk API from this app. Options are to handle that step in another app your scenario already uses, or to ask the team behind this guide to look at your case through the contact form below.
05Should you use Make or n8n for folk?
It depends on how you like to build. Make gives folk 10 ready modules, instant triggers on people and companies, and a visual editor where you test with Run once before switching the scenario on. The same app often has an n8n node as well, so you can compare what each tool exposes for folk and pick the one whose modules cover your case. The n8n vs Make comparison linked above sets out the criteria side by side, without declaring a winner.
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