The Scenario
You are the program director at a regional nonprofit with eight chapter offices. Every chapter runs its own annual fundraising event and this year all eight campaign details are already finalized in an Excel workbook on the Campaigns tab: title, description, fundraising goal, and campaign type.
The campaigns need to be live in Givebutter by Monday. It is Friday afternoon.
The slow version:
- Open Givebutter, click New Campaign
- Copy the chapter name from the workbook, paste into Givebutter
- Copy the description, paste it, type the goal, set the type
- Save, go back to the workbook, note "done"
- Repeat seven more times
- Mix up two chapters' fundraising goals because the rows look identical by row 6
- Monday morning, a chapter coordinator calls to say their goal shows $5,000 instead of $15,000.
The fast version is one prompt.
The Easy Way: One Prompt in SheetXAI
SheetXAI is an AI agent inside your Excel workbook that reads each row and creates the Givebutter campaign directly, without you opening the platform interface once.
Open the SheetXAI sidebar and type:
Create a Givebutter campaign for each row in the Campaigns tab of this workbook. Column A is the title, column B is the description, column C is the fundraising goal, column D is the campaign type. Write the returned campaign ID into column E and the campaign URL into column F.
SheetXAI reads all eight rows, creates each campaign via Givebutter's API, and writes the IDs and URLs back to the workbook. Eight campaigns, one prompt, before you leave Friday.
What You Get
Eight live Givebutter campaigns with:
- Correct titles, descriptions, and goals — values read directly from the workbook, no retyping
- Campaign IDs in column E — for downstream operations like ticket tier creation
- Campaign URLs in column F — paste directly into chapter coordinator emails
- No transposition errors — each row maps cleanly to one campaign
You send the column F links to all eight chapter coordinators in one email on Friday evening.
What If the Data Is Not Quite Ready
Planning workbooks have the kind of inconsistencies that only show up at launch time.
When some rows are missing descriptions
Two chapters did not finalize their descriptions before the workbook was shared.
For any row in the Campaigns tab where column B is blank, generate a one-sentence campaign description based on the title in column A. Then create all eight Givebutter campaigns using the populated descriptions and write campaign IDs into column E and URLs into column F.
When goal amounts are formatted inconsistently
Some chapters entered "$10,000," others "10000," others "10k."
Normalize the goal column (column C) in the Campaigns tab to plain integers without currency symbols, commas, or abbreviations. Then create a Givebutter campaign for each row using title in column A, description in column B, and normalized goal. Write the campaign ID into column E and URL into column F.
When some chapters are not ready to launch yet
Column E has a status field: 'ready' or 'pending.' Only 'ready' chapters should have campaigns created now.
Create a Givebutter campaign only for rows in the Campaigns tab where column E says 'ready'. Use title in column A, description in column B, and goal in column C. Write the campaign ID into column F and URL into column G. For 'pending' rows, write 'not created — pending' into column F.
When you need campaigns created and ticket tiers attached in one operation
Your Tickets tab has rows keyed to chapter name, one row per ticket tier.
Create a Givebutter campaign for each row in the Campaigns tab using title in column A, description in column B, and goal in column C. Write the returned campaign ID into column D. Then look up matching rows in the Tickets tab by chapter name and create ticket tiers under each campaign. Write the ticket IDs back into the Tickets tab column E.
The pattern: the workbook is both the planning document and the execution record. One prompt covers both.
Try It
Get the 7-day free trial of SheetXAI and open your campaign planning workbook, then ask it to create the Givebutter campaigns. The Givebutter integration is included in every plan. For the next step, see how to bulk-create ticket tiers for a Givebutter campaign in Excel or the Givebutter in Excel overview.