The Scenario
You are an order manager at an e-commerce company. It is 2 PM on a Thursday and the end-of-day label run is at 5 PM. A data import error earlier in the week put incorrect recipient addresses into 35 ShipEngine shipments. The corrected addresses are in an Excel workbook — the Address Fix tab, columns A through F: ShipEngine shipment ID, and then street, city, state, ZIP, and country.
If those shipments go to labels at 5 PM with the wrong addresses, 35 packages ship to the wrong places. Three of them are going to enterprise accounts with service-level agreements.
The bad version of the next three hours:
- Log into ShipEngine's dashboard
- Find shipment one by ID
- Open the edit screen
- Fix the address fields
- Save
- Repeat 34 more times
- Make a typo on row 28 because you are tired
- The label run fires with row 28 still wrong.
The fast version is one prompt.
The Easy Way: One Prompt in SheetXAI
SheetXAI is an AI agent inside your Excel workbook that reads the correction rows and pushes each update to ShipEngine before the label run.
Open the SheetXAI sidebar and type:
Read my Address Fix Google Sheet and update each ShipEngine shipment ID in column A with the corrected recipient address in columns B through F. Write 'updated' into column G for each success and the error message for any failure.
SheetXAI reads the Address Fix tab, calls ShipEngine's shipment update API per row, and writes the outcome into column G. Thirty-five corrections done before the 5 PM label run.
What You Get
Column G updated for all 35 rows:
- 'updated' — the shipment address was corrected in ShipEngine
- Error message — if ShipEngine rejected the update, the reason is written here so you know which rows need manual attention
All corrections are live in ShipEngine before the label run. The three enterprise shipments are going to the right addresses.
What If the Data Is Not Quite Ready
Correction sheets from data import errors have specific formatting problems. SheetXAI handles them in the same prompt.
When the corrected state values are full names instead of two-letter codes
The correction workbook has "Illinois" in column D because it came from a CRM export.
Convert the state values in column D of the Address Fix tab from full state names to two-letter abbreviations. Then update each ShipEngine shipment in column A with the corrected address from columns B through F. Write 'updated' or the error into column G.
When some rows have blank address fields because only part of the address changed
A few corrections only update the city and ZIP; the street address did not change and was left blank in the correction sheet.
For each row in the Address Fix tab, update the ShipEngine shipment in column A. For any address field that is blank in columns B through F, keep the existing value in ShipEngine — only overwrite fields that have a new value. Write 'updated' into column G for each success.
When you want to validate the corrected addresses before pushing them
You want to confirm the corrected addresses pass ShipEngine validation before they go into the shipments.
First validate each address in columns B through F of the Address Fix tab with ShipEngine. For rows that pass, update the ShipEngine shipment in column A. Write 'validated + updated' into column G for success. Write 'VALIDATION FAILED — not updated' for any address that did not validate.
When you need to update addresses, refetch rates with the new addresses, and flag any cost changes
Some corrected addresses are in different shipping zones and will have different carrier costs.
For each row in the Address Fix tab, update the ShipEngine shipment in column A with the corrected address from columns B through F. Then fetch the new rate quote for each updated shipment and write the cheapest carrier and rate into columns H and I. Flag any row where the rate changed by more than $2 in column J.
The pattern: update and re-price in one prompt so you know before the label run whether the corrections changed your costs.
Try It
Get the 7-day free trial of SheetXAI and open any workbook with a list of shipment IDs and corrected addresses, then ask it to push the updates to ShipEngine. The ShipEngine integration is included in every SheetXAI plan. For related workflows, see how to validate addresses before a label run or the ShipEngine in Excel overview.