The Scenario
The rollout announcement went out this morning. Forty stores are going live on Beaconstac for the first time, and each one needs a registered Place in the platform before the store-level QR campaigns can be deployed. You have an Excel workbook with store names in column A and addresses in columns B through D. The regional field team is waiting on you to confirm the places are created — they can't deploy the in-store codes until you do.
The bad version:
- Open Beaconstac, navigate to Places, click "Add place," type the store name for row 1, type the address, save. Switch back to the workbook. Read the next row. Switch back to Beaconstac. Repeat.
- By store 12, you've made a typo in an address and don't realize it because the dashboard doesn't validate street addresses on save.
- By store 30, you're not sure if the store name is supposed to match the column A value exactly or use the formatted version from the brand guide.
Forty stores waiting on place registration is forty stores that can't start their QR campaigns. The field team has travel booked around this schedule.
The Easy Way: One Prompt in SheetXAI
SheetXAI is an AI agent that lives inside your Excel workbook. It reads column A and the address columns, creates all 40 Places in Beaconstac, and writes the resulting place IDs back to column E.
For every row in my Excel table, create a Beaconstac Place using the name in column A and address details in columns B through D, writing the new place ID to column E
What You Get
- 40 Places created in Beaconstac, each named after column A and located at the address from columns B–D
- The Beaconstac place ID written into column E for each row
- Any rows that failed flagged in column E with an error note instead of a place ID
- A clean reference workbook of store names, addresses, and their Beaconstac place IDs — ready to hand off
What If the Data Is Not Quite Ready
Address is in a single column — combine name and address format
Create a Beaconstac Place for each row using the name in column A and the full address in column B — write the resulting place ID to column C for all 40 rows
Some rows have missing addresses — only create places where column B is populated
For each row where column B is not empty, create a Beaconstac Place using column A as the name and columns B through D as the address — write the place ID to column E and leave rows with blank addresses blank
Only create places for stores flagged "Ready" in column F
For each row where column F = "Ready", create a Beaconstac Place using column A as the name and columns B through D as the address — write the place ID to column E and write "skipped" for all other rows
Clean addresses, filter to ready stores, create places, and write back IDs and a confirmation timestamp
Trim whitespace from columns A through D, then for each row where column F = "Ready" and column B is not empty, create a Beaconstac Place using column A and columns B–D — write the place ID to column E and the current timestamp to column G
Handling the cleanup and the creation in a single prompt means you don't need to prep the workbook separately before running the operation.
Try It
Get the 7-day free trial of SheetXAI and open the Excel workbook with your store locations, then ask it to create Beaconstac Places for every row and write the place IDs back. The field team can start their QR deployments the same day. See also: Bulk create QR codes from an Excel workbook and the full Beaconstac integration overview.