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Configuring SSO with Google

  • Updated on Jul 21, 2026
  • Published on Jul 7, 2022
  • 2 minute(s) read
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Plan availability

Business and Enterprise Scale only

Platform(s)

Web/Browser, Mac app, and Windows app 

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Setting up SSO for Google prerequisites

Adding custom SAML apps is only available to super admins or users with admin accounts that include:

  • Apps > Web and mobile apps  > Manage SAML apps - Allows admins to create, configure, and delete custom SAML apps.

  • (Optional, but recommended) User access management - Required to to assign apps to users or groups.

To confirm or create a custom role with the required permissions in your Google Admin console:

  1. Open your Google Admin console.

  2. Click Account.

  3. Click Admin roles.

Setting up SSO for Google

  1. Open your Google Admin console.

  2. Click Apps, then Web and mobile apps.

  3. Click Add app, then Add custom SAML app.

  4. Name your app.

    1. (Optional) upload the Airtable logo and add a description.

  5. Download the IdP metadata and note and copy the SSO URL/Sign-in page URL.

    1. This info is required for the admin panel at a later point.

    2. If you can't download the metadata, copy the following:

      1. SSO URL/Sign-in page URL

      2. Entity ID

      3. Certificate (x509 cert)

  6. Enter the following information in the corresponding fields:

    • ACS URL: the ACS URL shown in your Airtable SSO configuration dialog. For legacy configurations, use https://airtable.com/auth/ssoCallback.

    • Entity ID: the Entity ID shown in your Airtable SSO configuration dialog. For legacy configurations, use https://airtable.com/sso/metadata0418.xml.

    • Start URL: Leave blank

    • Signed Response: Leave unchecked

    • Name ID Format: Email

    • Name ID: Basic Information > Primary Email

      Note

      If your organization uses a non-email identifier as the Name ID, configure the email attribute in Airtable’s SSO settings so Airtable reads each user’s email address from the SAML attribute you specify — see SSO dependencies for more information.

  7. Click Add mapping and map these fields:

    1. App Attribute (SAML Attribute) > Google Directory Attribute

    2. urn:oid:2.5.4.4 > Basic Information > Last Name

    3. urn:oid:2.5.4.42 > Basic Information > First Name

  8. Submit your sign-in URL and x509 certificate, following the steps in Configuring SSO in the admin panel article.

FAQs

If another team in my company already uses SSO with Airtable, how does this impact my Business or Enterprise Scale account?

In Airtable, our system expects Enterprise Scale accounts using shared domains—domains federated to multiple Enterprise accounts—to use the same SAML metadata for SSO. What this means is that if your company has existing Enterprise Scale accounts with SSO configured, you will need to coordinate with the admins (or IT department) of the other accounts to obtain the current sign-in URLs, x.509 certificates, and ensure that your users have the necessary access to the Airtable tenant present in your company’s identity provider.

You can configure separate tenants or identity providers for domains unique to Enterprise Scale accounts, as each domain can be configured with its own SAML metadata.