The Scenario
You are a campaign manager three hours before an SMS launch. You collected 2,000 phone numbers from a web form last week and loaded them into an Excel workbook. The campaign is scheduled. The template is approved. But somewhere in the back of your head is the question you have been ignoring: how many of these numbers are actually eligible to receive an SMS?
The bad version:
- Open Dripcel's compliance tools manually, copy phone numbers from the workbook in batches of 20 or 30, and check each batch one at a time — because there is no bulk-check button in the UI.
- Record the result of each check in a separate column by hand, matching it back to the right row in the workbook each time.
- Realize halfway through that you copied the wrong range and some numbers have been checked twice and some not at all.
Sending to opted-out or ineligible numbers does not just waste credits. Depending on your jurisdiction, it can trigger compliance exposure that your legal team will not be happy about on a Thursday afternoon.
The Easy Way: One Prompt in SheetXAI
SheetXAI is an AI agent that lives inside your Excel workbook. It reads your data and talks to Dripcel through its built-in integration — including the compliance check endpoint — so you can screen an entire column in one pass.
Take the 500 phone numbers in column A of the 'Pre-Launch Check' Excel tab, check each one's SMS eligibility via Dripcel, and mark column B as 'Send' or 'Skip' based on the result.
What You Get
- Every phone number in column A checked against Dripcel's compliance endpoint.
- 'Send' or 'Skip' written into column B for each corresponding row — no manual matching required.
- The check runs in sequence; if any individual number returns an error from Dripcel, that row gets a 'Check Failed' flag in column B so you can review it separately.
- When the run is complete, you can filter column B to 'Skip' and see exactly which numbers you need to remove before launch.
What If the Data Is Not Quite Ready
The phone numbers are not in MSISDN format — they have mixed formatting across 2,000 rows
Read all phone numbers from column A of the 'Pre-Launch Check' tab. Normalize each number to MSISDN format (strip spaces and dashes, prepend +1 for numbers without a country code) before running each one through Dripcel's compliance check. Write 'Send' or 'Skip' into column B.
You want to see the reason a number is blocked, not just the flag
Read all phone numbers from column A of the 'Pre-Launch Check' tab, run them through Dripcel's compliance check, and write 'Send' or 'Skip' into column B. For any row marked 'Skip', write the reason returned by Dripcel's compliance API into column C.
The numbers are spread across multiple worksheets from different form sources
Read all phone numbers from column A of the 'Form Source A' sheet and column A of the 'Form Source B' sheet. Combine them into a single deduplicated list, run each unique number through Dripcel's compliance check, and write the results into a new 'Compliance Results' sheet with columns: Phone, Status.
You want to normalize, screen, and auto-delete blocked rows in one pass
Read all phone numbers from column A of the 'Pre-Launch Check' tab. Normalize to MSISDN format, run Dripcel's compliance check on each number, write the result into column B, and then delete any rows where the result is 'Skip'. Leave only the sendable numbers in the workbook with a count of how many were removed written into cell D1.
One prompt that cleans and screens together gets you to a compliant send list without a separate cleanup step.
Try It
Get the 7-day free trial of SheetXAI and open the Excel workbook holding your next SMS send list, then ask it to run a compliance screen on every number before you spend any credits. You can also explore how SheetXAI handles bulk contact imports or the full Dripcel integration overview.