The Scenario
You are an events coordinator at a nonprofit. The spring gala Givebutter ticketing page needs to go live this afternoon. You have five ticket tiers to configure — VIP Table, Individual VIP, General Admission, Young Professional, and Virtual — and all five are laid out in an Excel workbook on the Ticket Tiers tab: tier name, price, quantity, and a short description.
It is 10:30 AM.
The slow version:
- Open Givebutter, navigate to the gala campaign, click Add Tickets
- Type tier name, set price, set quantity, paste description, save
- Click Add Tickets for the next tier, repeat
- Set VIP Table quantity to 10 when it should be 1 (table, not seats)
- Catch the error after 12 virtual tables are sold at $2,500 each
- Spend the afternoon processing refunds instead of finalizing the venue layout.
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 tier row and creates the Givebutter ticket in one go.
Open the SheetXAI sidebar and type:
Create a Givebutter ticket tier for each row in the Ticket Tiers tab of this workbook. Column A is the tier name, column B is price, column C is quantity available, column D is description. All tiers go under the campaign ID in cell B1 of the Config tab. Write the returned ticket ID into column E.
SheetXAI reads the campaign ID from the Config tab, creates each of the five ticket tiers via Givebutter's API, and writes the IDs back to column E. The ticketing page is live before noon.
What You Get
Five Givebutter ticket tiers configured correctly:
- Tier names, prices, and quantities — read directly from the workbook, no manual entry
- Descriptions included — buyers see them during checkout
- Ticket IDs in column E — for any downstream operations (discount codes, inventory adjustments)
- No manual entry errors — values come straight from the cells the events team already reviewed
The ticketing page is live while you are still drinking your morning coffee.
What If the Data Is Not Quite Ready
Ticket pricing sheets always have a few formatting issues.
When prices include currency formatting
Some rows have "$250," others "250." Givebutter's API expects a plain number.
Normalize the price column (column B) in the Ticket Tiers tab to remove dollar signs and commas. Then create a Givebutter ticket tier for each row using tier name in column A, normalized price, quantity in column C, and description in column D. Write the ticket ID into column E.
When the Virtual tier should have unlimited availability
The Virtual ticket row has no quantity cap. Column C is blank for that row.
For rows in the Ticket Tiers tab where column C is blank, create the Givebutter ticket tier with unlimited availability. For rows with a value in column C, use that quantity. Create all tiers under the campaign ID in the Config tab and write the ticket ID into column E.
When you want to add an early-bird discount code tied to General Admission
GA is $150 but you want an early-bird code for $120 that expires in two weeks.
Create all five ticket tiers from the Ticket Tiers tab using the standard columns. For the row where tier name is 'General Admission', also create a discount code called 'EARLY2026' that sets the price to $120 and expires on May 27 2026. Write the ticket ID into column E and the discount code ID into column F.
When you need tiers set up across multiple chapter campaigns at once
Each chapter has its own tab in the workbook (NYC, BOS, CHI, etc.) with its own tier list and a campaign ID in cell A1.
For each chapter tab in this workbook named by chapter code, read the ticket tier rows and create the corresponding Givebutter ticket tiers under the campaign ID in cell A1 of that tab. Write the returned ticket IDs back into column E of each chapter tab.
The pattern: the workbook controls the setup. One prompt, all tiers, no Givebutter UI required.
Try It
Get the 7-day free trial of SheetXAI and open your ticket planning workbook, then ask it to set up the tiers in Givebutter. The Givebutter integration is included in every plan. For related workflows, see how to bulk-create Givebutter campaigns from an Excel workbook or the Givebutter in Excel overview.