Send Images from Airtable to Slack Without Manual Uploads

You’ve got an order coming into Airtable. The customer’s name, the quantities, and an image of what they ordered.

You set up an automation in Airtable so that as soon as the order comes in, a Slack message is sent. The Slack message contains the order details and the image.

The customer name and quantity show up in Slack just fine.

But Slack doesn’t display the actual image. It only shows the link.

So now, someone on your team has to click that link, download the image, and manually upload it into Slack.

That’s an extra step. And when you’re dealing with order after order, those extra steps pile up.

You want a way for the automation itself to send the actual image as an attachment in Slack.

How do you actually do this in Airtable?

Unfortunately, it is not possible to use Airtable’s automations to upload images to Slack, because Airtable’s automations don’t support that particular Slack feature.

If you want the image to show up inside Slack, you need to use third party automation tool such as Make, Zapier, or n8n.

The setup would work like this.

The tool watches Airtable for new or updated records. When an order comes in, the automation fetches the details along with the image file.

It then uses the Slack upload feature to post the image directly into your channel.