The Scenario
Your Web3 startup's ops lead pinged you this morning: forty ETH and Polygon payouts need to go out today and the finance team wants to know which fee tier to approve before anyone hits send. You have the payout queue in an Excel workbook — network in column A, recipient in column B, amount in column C, and columns D through F empty waiting for slow, standard, and fast gas estimates.
The bad version:
- Open a gas tracker site for Ethereum, note the three fee tiers, flip to the workbook, type the values into D2, E2, F2.
- Open a different gas tracker for Polygon — it uses a completely different unit and display format — note the values, convert them, flip back to the workbook, type into the Polygon rows.
- Realize the Ethereum gas tracker you used ten minutes ago has updated and the numbers you first entered are stale by the time you finish the Polygon rows.
The finance team is waiting on a go/no-go. You're manually transcribing gas estimates across three browser tabs.
The Easy Way: One Prompt in SheetXAI
SheetXAI is an AI agent inside your Excel workbook. It reads your 'Payout Queue' worksheet, identifies the networks in column A, and through the Poof integration it pulls current gas price estimates and writes them into the right columns — in a single pass, so all networks are sampled at approximately the same time.
Read the blockchain networks in my Excel payout sheet and pull live gas price estimates from Poof for each one, then highlight rows where the fast tier exceeds the threshold I'll set in cell B1.
What You Get
- Columns D, E, and F populated with slow, standard, and fast gas estimates for each network row.
- Rows where the fast-tier estimate exceeds the threshold in cell B1 highlighted for finance review.
- All estimates pulled in a single pass, minimizing timestamp drift between networks.
- Any network that Poof doesn't return estimates for gets a note in column D so you can flag it before approving the batch.
What If the Data Is Not Quite Ready
Gas estimates come back in different units per network
Ethereum returns gwei, Polygon returns gwei at a different scale, and you need all values in a consistent unit for the finance approval table.
For each network in column A of my 'Payout Queue' worksheet, fetch gas estimates from Poof and normalize all values to gwei before writing slow, standard, and fast tiers into columns D, E, and F.
Finance wants a threshold flag — highlight any fast-tier estimate above a set value
Cell B1 contains the maximum acceptable fast-tier gas price. Any network row where the fast tier exceeds it should be highlighted.
Read the blockchain networks in my 'Payout Queue' worksheet and pull live gas price estimates from Poof for each one. Write slow, standard, and fast estimates into columns D, E, and F, then highlight the fast-tier cell in column F for any row where the value exceeds the threshold in cell B1.
The payout queue has duplicate network entries with different amounts
Ethereum appears three times in column A for different recipient batches, and you want a single gas estimate row per network, not per recipient.
In my 'Payout Queue' worksheet, identify the unique networks in column A, fetch current gas estimates from Poof for each unique network, and write a gas summary block below the payout data showing slow, standard, and fast estimates per network.
The full estimate-plus-decision kill chain
You want the gas estimates, the total payout cost for each network at the standard tier, and a recommendation on whether to send now or wait.
For each unique network in column A of my 'Payout Queue' worksheet, fetch current gas prices from Poof and write slow, standard, and fast estimates into a summary block below the data. For each network, calculate the estimated total gas cost for the standard tier by multiplying the per-transaction estimate by the number of payouts for that network (count the rows). Write the total estimated gas cost into a 'Batch Cost' column in the summary. Flag any network where the standard-tier batch cost exceeds 5% of the total payout value for that network with 'High gas' in the summary.
Combining the gas lookup, the cost calculation, and the threshold check in one prompt gives finance a decision-ready summary, not a raw data dump.
Try It
Get the 7-day free trial of SheetXAI and open any Excel workbook with a blockchain payout queue — even if it spans multiple networks or you need threshold flagging — and ask it to pull the Poof gas estimates and cost projections in one shot. You can also see how SheetXAI handles sending the actual batch payouts from an Excel workbook or return to the full Poof integration overview for Excel.