The Scenario
You're an operations coordinator for a retail chain and your store managers are expecting a QR code for each of the 80 in-store promotion short links by 10 AM so the print vendor can start the signage run. The Short.io link IDs are all in column A of an Excel workbook. It's 7:45 AM.
The bad version:
- Open Short.io, find each link by its ID, navigate to the QR code generation section for that specific link, copy the image URL, switch to Excel, paste it into column C
- Do that 80 times, manually tracking your position in both the workbook and the browser
- Deliver the QR URLs to the print vendor at 11 AM — too late for the morning print slot — because you didn't account for how slow 80 individual lookups actually are
The store managers scheduled their print installation for this afternoon. If the QR codes don't arrive at the vendor by 10 AM, the whole installation gets pushed to next week.
The Easy Way: One Prompt in SheetXAI
SheetXAI is an AI agent that lives inside your Excel workbook. It reads the link IDs from column A, calls Short.io's QR code endpoint for each one, and writes the image URLs back into column C.
Call Short.io's bulk QR code endpoint for the 80 link IDs in my Excel sheet and paste the resulting QR image URLs into column C
What You Get
- Column C fills with the QR code image URL for each Short.io link ID in column A
- All 80 URLs are ready to send to the print vendor before 9 AM
- Any link ID that fails surfaces an error note in column C so you know exactly which promotions need follow-up
What If the Data Is Not Quite Ready
Some store locations were removed from the promotion and their rows should be skipped
Seven stores opted out of the in-store promotion last week, but their rows are still in the workbook.
For rows in column A where column B is marked "opted out", skip the QR code generation — for all other rows, generate a Short.io QR code and write the image URL into column C
The print vendor needs the short URL alongside the QR image URL
The signage file template requires both the QR code URL and the text of the short link to display below each QR image.
For each link ID in column A, retrieve the Short.io short URL and write it into column B — then generate the QR code image URL and write it into column C
The print vendor requires QR codes at a specific high-resolution format
Standard output is too small for the 24-inch store signs.
Generate Short.io QR codes at the highest available resolution for each link ID in column A and write the resulting image URL into column C
Full enrichment plus QR generation in one shot
For each Short.io link ID in column A, retrieve the short URL into column B, the promotion title from Short.io into column D, and generate the QR code image URL into column C — skip rows where column E is marked "opted out"
The vendor gets everything they need to match QR codes to store locations in a single file.
Try It
Get the 7-day free trial of SheetXAI and open any Excel workbook with Short.io link IDs you need QR codes for — then ask it to generate the whole batch at once. Also see how to pull click stats for the same links after the promotion ends, or bulk-archive the in-store links once the campaign wraps up.