The Scenario
You are the program director at a regional nonprofit with eight chapter offices. Each chapter runs its own annual fundraising event. You have been managing the campaign setup manually — logging into Givebutter, clicking New Campaign, filling in the title, description, and goal, one at a time, one chapter at a time.
This year, all eight campaign details are already in a Google Sheet from the planning session last week: title, description, fundraising goal, and campaign type.
The slow version:
- Open Givebutter, click Campaigns, click New Campaign
- Copy the title from the sheet, paste into Givebutter
- Copy the description, paste it, copy the goal, type it in
- Save, go back to the sheet, mark that chapter done
- Repeat seven more times
- Transpose one chapter's goal with another's because you are on row 6 and they all look the same
- Launch week and one chapter's campaign has the wrong fundraising goal.
The fast version is one prompt.
The Easy Way: One Prompt in SheetXAI
SheetXAI is an AI agent inside your spreadsheet that reads each row and creates the Givebutter campaign without you touching the platform UI.
Open the SheetXAI sidebar and type:
Create a Givebutter campaign for each row in this sheet. Column A is the title, column B is the description, column C is the fundraising goal, column D is the campaign type. Write the returned campaign ID into column E and the campaign URL into column F.
SheetXAI reads all eight rows, creates each campaign via Givebutter's API, and writes the campaign ID and URL back to the sheet. Eight campaigns. One prompt.
What You Get
Eight live Givebutter campaigns with:
- Correct titles, descriptions, and goals — read directly from the sheet, no retyping
- Campaign IDs in column E — useful for any downstream API work (adding ticket tiers, logging transactions)
- Campaign URLs in column F — paste directly into your chapter communications
- No transpose errors — each row maps cleanly to its own campaign
Every chapter has their campaign URL before you finish your coffee. You send the column F links to the chapter coordinators in one email.
What If the Data Is Not Quite Ready
Planning sheets evolve. SheetXAI handles inconsistencies before the campaigns get created.
When some rows are missing descriptions
The planning session ended before two chapters finalized their descriptions. The description column is blank for those rows.
For any row where the description in column B is blank, generate a one-sentence campaign description based on the title in column A. Then create all eight Givebutter campaigns using the populated descriptions, write campaign IDs into column E and URLs into column F.
When goal amounts are formatted inconsistently
Some chapters entered their goal as "$5,000," others as "5000," others as "5k." Givebutter's API expects a plain number.
Normalize the goal column (column C) so all values are plain integers without currency symbols or abbreviations. Then create a Givebutter campaign for each row using title in column A, description in column B, and normalized goal. Write the campaign ID into column E and URL into column F.
When you want campaigns created only for chapters that have returned their paperwork
Column E has a status field: "ready" or "pending." Only "ready" chapters should have campaigns created now.
Create a Givebutter campaign only for rows where column E says 'ready'. Use the title in column A, description in column B, and goal in column C. Write the returned campaign ID into column F and URL into column G. For rows marked 'pending', write 'waiting — not created' in column F.
When you need to create campaigns and immediately attach ticket tiers from a second tab
Your planning sheet has a Tickets tab with one row per ticket tier keyed to the chapter name.
Create a Givebutter campaign for each row in the Campaigns tab using title in column A, description in column B, and goal in column C. Write the returned campaign ID into column D. Then, for each campaign, look up matching rows in the Tickets tab by chapter name and create the corresponding ticket tiers under that campaign. Write the ticket IDs back into the Tickets tab in column E.
The pattern: the sheet is the planning document and the execution engine at the same time. One prompt covers both.
Try It
Get the 7-day free trial of SheetXAI and open your campaign planning sheet, then ask it to create the Givebutter campaigns. The Givebutter integration is included in every plan. For the next step, see how to bulk-create ticket tiers for a Givebutter campaign or the Givebutter in Google Sheets overview.