The Scenario
You're the ops manager at a fintech startup that just onboarded 100 new wallet customers. Each one needs a unique virtual account number so they can fund their wallet via bank transfer. The customer data is already in a Google Sheet — name in column A, email in column B, BVN in column C. What's missing is the virtual account number in column D.
Your developer is on call this week and told you to just ask him when you're ready. You've been asking him every week for the past three weeks. The accounts still aren't generated.
The bad version:
- You submit a task to the dev. He generates them in batches via a script, but the script fails at row 67 because one BVN is formatted differently. He fixes it and reruns. Some accounts get created twice.
- You spend an afternoon cross-referencing the returned account numbers against the original sheet to make sure each customer only has one, then flag 11 duplicates for manual cleanup.
- By the time everything is sorted out, six customers have already contacted support asking why they can't fund their wallet.
Your job is onboarding operations. Debugging someone else's script output is not in that description, even if it ends up there every month.
The Easy Way: One Prompt in SheetXAI
SheetXAI is an AI agent that lives inside your Google Sheet. It reads each customer row directly and calls the Flutterwave virtual account API for each one, writing the returned account number and bank name back into the sheet — no script dependencies, no batch reruns.
For each row in this sheet with customer name in column A, email in column B, and BVN in column C, create a Flutterwave virtual account and write the returned account number into column D
What You Get
- Column D fills with the unique virtual account number for each customer row.
- Rows where the API returns an error (invalid BVN, duplicate customer) get the error message in column D instead of an account number, so nothing is silently skipped.
- Successfully created accounts don't get duplicated — the write only happens once per row.
- The bank name associated with the virtual account can be written into column E on request.
What If the Data Is Not Quite Ready
Some BVN values in column C are formatted with hyphens instead of plain digits
For each row in this sheet with a name in column A, email in column B, and BVN in column C, strip any hyphens or spaces from the BVN value, then create a Flutterwave virtual account and write the account number into column D
You need the bank name written alongside the account number
For each row in this sheet with customer name in column A, email in column B, and BVN in column C, create a Flutterwave virtual account and write the returned account number into column D and the bank name into column E
Some rows already have account numbers in column D from a previous run — skip those
For each row in this sheet where column D is empty, use the customer name in column A, email in column B, and BVN in column C to create a Flutterwave virtual account, and write the returned account number into column D
Validate BVN format, skip duplicates already in column D, create accounts for the rest, and log any errors
Check each row in this sheet: if column D already has an account number, skip it. If the BVN in column C is not exactly 11 digits, write "invalid BVN" into column D. Otherwise, create a Flutterwave virtual account using the name in column A, email in column B, and BVN in column C, write the account number into column D, and the bank name into column E. Log any API errors into column F.
The whole validation-and-creation pass in one prompt. You get clean output without a second debugging round.
Try It
Get the 7-day free trial of SheetXAI and open any Google Sheet with a customer list that needs virtual account numbers, then ask it to generate and write back the Flutterwave account details for each row. You can also see how to generate bulk payment links from a sheet or the full Flutterwave integration overview.