The Scenario
You are a fulfillment coordinator. End of day is in two hours. The warehouse team has finished packing 150 orders and has marked them in their system. You have an Excel workbook with those 150 order IDs in column A. Every one of them needs to move from "Processing" to "Shipped" in BaseLinker before the end of the day, so the marketplace integrations pick up the status change and send the shipping confirmation emails.
The bad version:
- Open BaseLinker, navigate to the order
- Click edit, find the status dropdown
- Change the status to Shipped
- Save, navigate back to the order list
- Find the next order ID from the workbook
- You update 30 orders in the first hour. By hour two you are on order 87. You leave the office with 63 orders still on "Processing." Customers get no shipping confirmation. The marketplace flags your account.
The fast version is one prompt and the statuses are updated before you close your laptop.
The Easy Way: One Prompt in SheetXAI
SheetXAI reads the order ID column and updates every status in one batch operation, so you do not have to touch BaseLinker's order UI at all.
Open the SheetXAI sidebar and type:
Update BaseLinker order statuses from this workbook: column A = order ID, column B = new status ID. Batch-update all orders in one operation and write "updated" or the error into column C for each row.
SheetXAI reads column A, calls BaseLinker's order status API for each order, and writes the result back to column C. All 150 orders updated in the time it would take you to do the first fifteen manually.
What You Get
A batch status update with a result trail:
- Updated orders — "updated" in column C
- Failed orders — the specific error in column C
- Zero manual navigation in BaseLinker — every update went through the API
Column C is your end-of-day record. If a manager asks which orders were confirmed shipped before the cutoff, you have the log. If three orders failed, you see them immediately.
What If the Data Is Not Quite Ready
Batch status updates rarely go perfectly the first time. SheetXAI handles the edge cases inline.
When different orders need different target statuses
Some orders go to status 5678 (Shipped - Standard), others to 5679 (Shipped - Express) based on the shipping method in column B.
Update BaseLinker order statuses from this workbook: column A = order ID, column B = new status ID. Process all rows and write "updated" or the error into column C.
When you want to confirm the current status before changing it
You only want to update orders that are currently in "Processing" status.
For each order ID in column A of this workbook, check the current BaseLinker status. If the status is 1234 (Processing), update it to 5678 (Shipped) and write "updated" in column B. If the current status is anything else, write the current status name in column B and skip.
When some order IDs in the workbook are blank or malformed
The warehouse team's system sometimes generates rows with empty order ID fields.
Clean column A of this workbook: remove any rows where the order ID is blank, and trim whitespace from all order IDs. Then set the BaseLinker status for every remaining order ID to status ID 5678 and write the result into column B.
When you need to pull the warehouse list, verify it against BaseLinker, update statuses, and log the outcome in one operation
You do not have a clean list yet. You want SheetXAI to build it from both sources.
Fetch all BaseLinker orders currently in status 1234 (Processing) and write their order IDs into column A of this workbook. Then compare that list with the order IDs in the Packed tab (column A). For orders that appear in both lists, update the BaseLinker status to 5678 (Shipped) and write "updated" in column B. For orders in BaseLinker but not in the Packed tab, write "not yet packed" in column B.
The pattern: build the list, reconcile it, and take the action in one prompt.
Try It
Get the 7-day free trial of SheetXAI and open a workbook with your order IDs, then ask it to push the status updates to BaseLinker. The BaseLinker integration is included in every SheetXAI plan. For related workflows, see how to register tracking numbers in bulk or the BaseLinker in Excel overview.