The Scenario
Your international sales report is due at 9 AM Tuesday and your finance director wants everything in USD. What you have is 200 rows — column B is the source currency code (EUR, GBP, JPY, a few AED and CHF scattered throughout), column C is the original amount. What you need is column D filled in with the converted USD equivalent, using rates current enough for the report to hold up if anyone asks.
The bad version:
- Open the APIVerve currency conversion endpoint docs, authenticate, and run a test call to verify the response format.
- Write a script (or find one) that loops over each row, builds the query with the right currency pair, parses the response, and writes the USD value back into column D — then debug the three rows that returned a null because of a trailing space in the currency code.
- Repeat this entire exercise next month when the exchange rates have moved and the report cycle starts again.
Your job title is finance analyst. Your job is to interpret the numbers, not to maintain the pipeline that produces them.
The Easy Way: One Prompt in SheetXAI
SheetXAI is an AI agent that lives inside your Google Sheet. It reads your column structure and, through its built-in APIVerve integration, it can call the currency conversion endpoint for every row and write the results back — without a script, without a separate tool, without leaving the sheet.
Convert every amount in column C to USD using the currency code in column B and write the USD equivalent into column D
What You Get
- Column D filled with USD-equivalent values for all 200 rows.
- Currency conversion applied row by row using current APIVerve exchange rates.
- Rows with malformed or missing currency codes flagged in column D with a note rather than silently left blank.
- The sheet is ready for your finance director's 9 AM review without a script having been written.
What If the Data Is Not Quite Ready
The currency codes have trailing spaces or mixed case
Clean the currency codes in column B — trim whitespace and uppercase them — then convert each amount in column C to USD and write the result to column D
Some rows are missing a currency code entirely
For rows in column B that have no currency code, check if the country name in column E maps to a standard ISO currency code and use that; for rows where no code can be determined, write "MISSING CURRENCY" in column D and skip the conversion
The amounts are formatted as strings with commas and currency symbols
Strip currency symbols and commas from the amounts in column C, then convert each cleaned value to USD using the currency code in column B and write the result to column D as a plain number
Full cleanup and conversion in one shot
Trim and uppercase all currency codes in column B, strip symbols and commas from amounts in column C, convert each to USD using current exchange rates from APIVerve, write the USD value to column D, and flag any rows where the conversion couldn't be completed with a reason in column E
The pattern: whenever the input data needs cleaning before the API call, ask for both in one prompt.
Try It
Get the 7-day free trial of SheetXAI and open your international sales sheet with mixed currencies in one column and amounts in another — then ask SheetXAI to convert everything to USD. You can also ask it to enrich flight routes with distances or explore the full APIVerve integration overview.