The Scenario
You manage client accounts for a B2B services firm. It's the 28th of the month and you have 50 clients who each need a Paystack invoice — what Paystack calls a payment request — before the 31st. The amounts, descriptions, and emails are all in an Excel workbook your billing coordinator built earlier this week. All you have to do is create the invoices.
That has taken you longer to do in the past than it should.
The bad version:
- You open Paystack, navigate to Payment Requests, and click Create. You paste the client email, convert the naira amount to kobo in your head (or calculator), paste the description, and hit send.
- You work through 12 invoices before realizing that for three rows you copied the description one row off — client 5's description is on invoice 4. You go back to Paystack and edit each one.
- On invoice 22 you discover the email address doesn't have a Paystack customer record associated with it. The payment request creation fails. You create the customer first, then come back and create the request.
50 invoices, 3+ minutes each, with description mismatches and missing customer records slowing you down. It's already the 28th.
The Easy Way: One Prompt in SheetXAI
SheetXAI is an AI agent that lives inside your Excel workbook. It reads your invoice table and creates each Paystack payment request through the API, writing the returned request code back to the adjacent column — so you have a record of every invoice without touching the dashboard.
For every row in my Excel 'Invoices' table, create a Paystack payment request using the Customer Email, Amount, and Description columns, then write the returned request code to column D.
What You Get
- Column D: Paystack payment request code per row for tracking
- Each payment request created and sent to the customer's email
- Rows where creation fails get an error note in column D
- All 50 requests issued in one run
What If the Data Is Not Quite Ready
Amounts are in naira and need to be converted to kobo
For every row in my Excel 'Invoices' table, create a Paystack payment request using Customer Email, Amount multiplied by 100 to convert to kobo, and Description — write the returned request code to column D.
Some client emails don't have Paystack customer records yet
For each row in the 'Invoices' table, first check if a Paystack customer exists for the Customer Email — create one if not — then create a payment request using the email, Amount in kobo, and Description, writing the returned request code to column D.
Descriptions need a month prefix added before sending
Create a Paystack payment request for each row using Customer Email, Amount converted to kobo, and Description prefixed with 'May 2025 Invoice: ' — write the returned request code to column D.
Ensure customers exist, convert amounts, add prefix, and create in one shot
For each row in the Invoices table, ensure a Paystack customer exists for the Customer Email (create one if not), convert Amount to kobo, prefix the Description with 'May 2025 Invoice: ', then create a Paystack payment request and write the returned code to column D.
Running the whole prep and creation in one prompt means all 50 invoices go out before end of business on the 28th — not on the 31st.
Try It
Open the Excel workbook where your billing data lives, then Get the 7-day free trial of SheetXAI and ask it to create your Paystack payment requests in bulk. For related workflows, see how to export your transaction history once payments come in, or how to bulk-create customers before running invoices.