The Scenario
It's the last week of the month and you're doing the budget reconciliation for your data engineering team. Three team members have been using a shared RedCircle API account. You need to pull account usage stats — credit balance, credits consumed this month, plan limits — and get them into an Excel workbook for the monthly review meeting tomorrow morning.
You've never actually looked at the RedCircle account API before. The account credentials are in the team password manager and the meeting is at 9 AM.
The bad version:
- Log into RedCircle, navigate to account settings, find the usage section — but it shows aggregate numbers, not per-user breakdowns
- Look for an API endpoint that returns account usage, find it in the docs, write a test call
- Get the response, realize the field names are different from what you expected ("credits_remaining" vs. "credit_balance"), write the correct values into the workbook manually
The numbers are going into a budget presentation. Getting them wrong — or worse, presenting last month's numbers because you grabbed the wrong field — is the kind of thing that follows you.
The Easy Way: One Prompt in SheetXAI
SheetXAI connects to the RedCircle API and can pull your account usage stats directly into the workbook — without you touching the API response schema.
Fetch my RedCircle API account details and write current credit balance, credits used this month, and plan limits into cells A1 through C2 of this sheet
What You Get
- Cell A1: label "Credit Balance", A2: current credit balance value
- Cell B1: label "Credits Used This Month", B2: credits consumed in the current billing period
- Cell C1: label "Plan Limit", C2: the credit ceiling for the current plan
A clean two-row summary — labels in row 1, values in row 2 — ready to reference in a presentation or formula.
What If the Data Is Not Quite Ready
You want the summary formatted as a single horizontal row, not label-over-value
Your budget template already has headers in row 1 and expects data in row 2.
Pull the RedCircle account usage stats and populate row 2 of this sheet with current credit balance in column A, credits used this month in column B, and plan name in column C — leave row 1 headers intact
You want a timestamped log entry instead of overwriting the same cells
Each month's usage should be appended as a new row so you have a historical record.
Fetch RedCircle API account usage stats for this month and append a new row at the bottom of this sheet with today's date in column A, credit balance in column B, credits used in column C, and plan name in column D
You want to compute the credits remaining as a percentage of the plan limit
The budget review wants to know what fraction of the monthly budget has been consumed.
Fetch RedCircle account usage stats and write credit balance in cell A2, credits used in cell B2, plan limit in cell C2, and the percentage consumed (credits used divided by plan limit, formatted as a percentage) in cell D2
You want the full account snapshot plus a flag if consumption is above 80 percent
The team has a policy of reviewing allocation when usage passes 80 percent of the plan limit.
Pull RedCircle account usage stats and write a summary row in row 2 with credit balance, credits used, plan limit, percentage consumed, and in column E write "Review Needed" if percentage consumed is above 80 percent, otherwise "On Track"
One prompt, the reconciliation row and the status flag together.
Try It
Get the 7-day free trial of SheetXAI and open your monthly budget tracking Excel workbook, then ask it to pull your RedCircle API account stats and populate the reconciliation row. See also the spoke on pulling error logs for failed requests or the hub overview on connecting RedCircle API to Excel.