The Scenario
It's Sunday evening and you're prepping for a product launch Tuesday morning. The campaign brief asks for social proof notifications running from day one — real purchase activity, not dummy data. You've got an Excel workbook with 200 orders from the past two weeks: customer first name in column A, city in column B, product in column C. All you need is for those 200 rows to exist in Fomo as published events before the site goes live.
The bad version:
- Open Fomo's event creation form, enter row 1 manually — first name, city, product, event type. Submit. Repeat.
- Realize on row 15 that you've been entering the product column value in the city field. Go back and delete fourteen events.
- Work through to row 60 before accepting that this is a Tuesday-morning job, not a Sunday-evening one — and now the launch is missing social proof on day one.
The launch timeline is fixed. The workbook is ready. What this actually needs is the data moved, not your hands moving it.
The Easy Way: One Prompt in SheetXAI
SheetXAI is an AI agent that lives inside your Excel workbook. It reads the data, understands the column structure, and through its Fomo integration it creates the events for you — all 200 of them — in one shot.
Bulk-create 200 Fomo social proof notifications from this Excel sheet: column A is the customer first name, column B is the product name, column C is the city — write back the event ID for each row
What You Get
- One Fomo event created per row, with customer name, city, and product mapped to the correct fields
- The Fomo event type set to 'purchase' for all rows
- The returned Fomo event ID written back into column D for each row, so you can audit which events were created
- Any rows where the API returns an error are flagged in column E with the error message rather than silently skipped
What If the Data Is Not Quite Ready
The city column has mixed formats — some rows say "New York," others say "NY"
Create a Fomo event for every row in this workbook — customer first name in column A, city in column B, product in column C — but normalize any state abbreviations in column B to full state names before creating the events
Some rows are missing the city entirely
Create Fomo purchase events for every row where column B is not empty — customer name from column A, city from column B, product from column C — skip blank city rows and flag them in column D with the text "skipped - no city"
The workbook has orders from multiple product lines in different worksheets and I need events from all of them
Create Fomo purchase events from both the "Electronics" worksheet and the "Apparel" worksheet in this workbook — customer name is column A in both, city is column B, product is column C — write the event IDs back to column D in each worksheet
The product names have trailing spaces and inconsistent capitalization — clean them first, then push
For every row in this workbook: trim and title-case the product name in column C, then create a Fomo purchase event using the first name from column A, city from column B, and the cleaned product name — write the event ID to column D and note any API errors in column E
The core pattern: ask for the data cleanup and the event creation in the same prompt. One pass handles both.
Try It
Get the 7-day free trial of SheetXAI and open any Excel workbook with recent order data — even a rough export from your store — then ask it to bulk-create Fomo notifications from those rows. When you're done, check out how to export Fomo event logs for analysis or see the full Fomo integration overview.