The Scenario
You're three weeks into running a WhatsApp re-engagement campaign, and the customer success lead just forwarded a spreadsheet request: she needs every 2Chat contact in a Google Sheet by end of day, sorted by country code, with creation dates included. The contacts are already in 2Chat — 3,000 of them — but getting them out isn't a button you've found yet.
The bad version:
- Open 2Chat, look for an export option, find it only exports the last 500 contacts per CSV, download six CSVs.
- Open each one in Sheets, paste them together, discover the phone number formatting is different across files (some have +1, some don't), and spend an hour normalizing the column.
- Build the country code grouping by hand using a COUNTIF formula that breaks every time a new prefix shows up.
That's three hours of work to answer a ten-minute question. And the customer success lead has a standing weekly ask for this list — so you'll be doing it again next Thursday.
The Easy Way: One Prompt in SheetXAI
SheetXAI is an AI agent that lives inside your Google Sheet. It reads the sheet and talks to 2Chat on your behalf — no CSV downloads, no column normalization, no separate export tool to manage. You describe what you need.
Export all my 2Chat contacts to this sheet with columns for Name (column A), Phone (column B), and Creation Date (column C). Then add a summary table starting in column E that shows total contact counts grouped by country code.
What You Get
- Every 2Chat contact written to rows 2 onward, with name, phone, and creation date in columns A, B, and C.
- A summary table in column E showing each distinct country code and how many contacts belong to it.
- Any contacts where the phone number couldn't be parsed flagged with a note in column D so nothing disappears silently.
What If the Data Is Not Quite Ready
The phone numbers have inconsistent country code formatting
Export all my 2Chat contacts to this sheet with name, phone, and creation date. Normalize the phone numbers to E.164 format (e.g. +12025551234) — strip spaces, dashes, and parentheses before writing them to column B.
Some contacts are missing creation dates
Export all my 2Chat contacts to this sheet. For rows where the creation date is missing, write "unknown" in column C and flag those rows in column D with the label "missing date" so I can review them separately.
I need to split the list across multiple tabs by region
Export all my 2Chat contacts to this sheet. Group them by continent based on their country code — North America contacts to the "NA" tab, European contacts to the "EU" tab, all others to the "Other" tab. Create the tabs if they don't exist.
Full cleanup and segmentation in one shot
Export all my 2Chat contacts to this sheet. Normalize all phone numbers to E.164, fill in "unknown" where creation dates are missing, flag duplicate phone numbers in column D, then write a summary table to the "Summary" tab showing contact counts by country code and a row for how many have unknown dates.
One prompt handles the pull, the normalization, the dedup check, and the summary — rather than splitting those into four separate tasks.
Try It
Get the 7-day free trial of SheetXAI and open any Google Sheet you use for customer tracking, then ask it to pull your full 2Chat contact directory. For related workflows, see Bulk Create 2Chat Contacts From a Google Sheet and the 2Chat integration overview.