The Scenario
You are the operations coordinator at a fulfillment house. Your largest client just handed you a new customer roster: 500 pre-validated addresses in an Excel workbook on the Address Import tab, one per row, columns A through F covering name, street address, city, state, ZIP, and country.
Before you can run a single shipment, every one of these addresses needs to exist as a Shippo address object. The client wants to reuse them across hundreds of shipments over the next six months, so they need to be in Shippo, not just in the workbook.
The slow version:
- You open Shippo's address creation UI
- You fill in the fields for address one
- You save it, note the address ID, type it back into column G of the workbook
- You do this 499 more times
- You finish sometime next week with no idea how many you got right.
The fast version is one prompt.
The Easy Way: One Prompt in SheetXAI
SheetXAI reads the address workbook and calls Shippo's address creation endpoint for every row, so you never touch the Shippo UI.
Open the SheetXAI sidebar and type:
Read all rows in my Address Import tab and create a validated Shippo address for each one, then write "valid" or "invalid" plus the Shippo address ID into columns H and I.
SheetXAI reads the 500 rows, submits each one to Shippo, writes the validation result and address ID into H and I row by row. When it finishes, you have a complete import log with every ID and every validation flag in the workbook.
What You Get
A fully populated address import with validation results:
- Column H — "valid" or "invalid" based on Shippo's validation response
- Column I — the Shippo address ID for each successfully created row
- Error rows surfaced — rows where Shippo returns an error get the error message in column I so you can fix and re-run just those rows
- No UI clicks — 500 addresses processed without opening the Shippo dashboard once
The IDs in column I are immediately usable for building shipments in subsequent prompts.
What If the Data Is Not Quite Ready
Address imports are rarely clean on the first export. SheetXAI fixes and submits in the same prompt.
When country values are inconsistent
Some rows say "United States," some say "US," some say "USA." Shippo's API wants a two-letter ISO country code.
Normalize the country values in column F of the Address Import tab to two-letter ISO codes before creating the Shippo addresses. Write "valid" or "invalid" into column H and the Shippo address ID into column I for each row.
When street addresses include apartment numbers in the same field
The export has "123 Main St Apt 4B" in column B. Shippo has separate fields for street1 and street2.
For each row in the Address Import tab, check column B for an apartment or suite number. If found, split it into street1 and street2 before creating the Shippo address. Write the validation result into column H and the address ID into column I.
When you only want to create addresses for rows missing an ID
You have already run this import once and columns H and I have data for the first 300 rows. You only want to process the remaining 200.
Skip any row in the Address Import tab that already has a value in column I. For all rows where column I is empty, create a Shippo address using columns A through F and write the validation result and address ID into columns H and I.
When you want to validate, create, flag undeliverable addresses, and summarize results in one shot
You want a summary count of how many addresses came back valid versus invalid before you hand the workbook back to the client.
For each row in my Address Import tab, create a Shippo address object using columns A through F. Write "valid" or "invalid" into column H and the address ID or error message into column I. When all rows are done, add a summary section below the data showing total rows processed, total valid, total invalid, and a list of the row numbers that came back invalid.
The pattern: submit, validate, and report in one go. No second pass.
Try It
Get the 7-day free trial of SheetXAI and open any address list in Excel, then ask it to create Shippo address objects for every row. The Shippo integration is included in every SheetXAI plan. For what comes next, see how to create Shippo orders from a sales orders workbook or the Shippo in Excel overview.