The Scenario
It's Wednesday afternoon and the conference is Saturday. You're staring at 300 rows in a Google Sheet — attendee names, emails, company affiliations — collected through the registration form over the past three weeks. The follow-up campaign in Campayn is ready to go. The list is not.
The bad version:
- Export the sheet to CSV, open it in a text editor to check for rogue commas or line breaks, fix the ones that broke the format.
- Log into Campayn, navigate to the list, click Import Contacts, upload the CSV, map the columns — then realize Campayn calls the field "First Name" but your CSV column is "Name (First)" and you have to rename the header and try again.
- Wait for the import to finish, check the results screen, find 14 contacts failed without a clear reason, manually investigate each one.
That's not what you were supposed to spend Wednesday doing. The campaign still needs a subject line test and you have a sponsor call in an hour.
The Easy Way: One Prompt in SheetXAI
SheetXAI is an AI agent that lives inside your Google Sheet. It reads the sheet data and talks to Campayn on your behalf — no exports, no column mapping screens, no import queue to babysit. Open the SheetXAI sidebar and tell it what you need.
For every row in the Attendees sheet, create a Campayn contact in list ID 44512 using the name in column A, email in column B, and company in column C
What You Get
- Every row from the Attendees sheet is added as a contact in Campayn list 44512.
- A status column is written back to column D: "added" for successes, "error: duplicate email" or "error: invalid format" for anything that didn't land.
- You end up with a complete picture of what went in and what didn't, inside the same sheet — no cross-referencing a separate import log.
What If the Data Is Not Quite Ready
The sheet has full names in one column instead of separate first/last
For every row in the Attendees sheet, split column A on the first space to get first and last name, then create a Campayn contact in list ID 44512 using those names plus the email in column B and company in column C
Some rows are missing an email address
For every row in the Attendees sheet where column B is not blank, create a Campayn contact in list ID 44512 using the name in column A, email in column B, and company in column C — write "skipped: no email" in column D for any row that was skipped
The same person registered twice and you need to deduplicate first
Remove duplicate emails from the Attendees sheet, keeping the first occurrence of each, then create a Campayn contact in list ID 44512 for every remaining row using column A for name, column B for email, and column C for company
Clean, deduplicate, and import in one pass
In the Attendees sheet: deduplicate on column B (email), skip rows where column B is blank, split column A into first and last name on the first space, then create a Campayn contact in list ID 44512 for each valid row and write the result — "added", "duplicate skipped", or the error message — to column D
One prompt handles the cleanup and the import together. You're not doing it in stages across three different tools.
Try It
Get the 7-day free trial of SheetXAI and open any sheet with a contact list waiting to go into Campayn — conference registrations, webinar signups, CRM exports — then ask it to push the whole list in. Also worth reading: Export Campayn engagement stats into a sheet and the Campayn + Google Sheets hub.