The Scenario
Payroll is in four days and your ops lead just handed you a sheet with 200 driver payout recipients for the Ghana platform. Bank account numbers in column A, bank codes in column B, account names in column C. All 200 need to be created as Paystack transfer recipients before the payout run can go out.
The bad version:
- You open the Paystack dashboard, navigate to Transfers, click "Add Recipient," fill in the account number, select the bank from a dropdown, type the account name, and save.
- You work through 15 rows before your laptop screen locks. When you come back you've lost your place and spend five minutes figuring out which row you're on.
- Around row 60, you notice you've been selecting the wrong bank for three rows because two bank names look nearly identical in the dropdown. You fix them and keep going.
You need all 200 recipients created before the payout batch runs Friday morning. At the current pace, you'll need most of Thursday to finish — and that's before any validation errors.
The Easy Way: One Prompt in SheetXAI
SheetXAI is an AI agent that lives inside your Google Sheet. It reads your recipient data and creates each Paystack transfer recipient through the API in sequence, then writes the returned recipient code back into column D — so you have a complete, auditable record without touching the dashboard once.
Create Paystack transfer recipients in bulk from this sheet: use column A for account number, column B for bank code, and column C for account name, writing the returned recipient code into column D.
What You Get
- Column D: Paystack recipient code (e.g., RCP_xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) written per row as each creation completes
- Rows where creation fails get an error description written to column D instead of a code
- All 200 recipients created in one run — no dashboard navigation, no dropdown hunting
What If the Data Is Not Quite Ready
Bank codes are written as bank names and need to be resolved first
Look up the Paystack bank code for each bank name in column B, write the resolved code to column E, then create a transfer recipient for each row using account number from A, code from E, and name from C — write the recipient code to column D.
Some rows are duplicates of recipients you've already created
Before creating recipients, check column A for duplicate account numbers within the sheet and mark any duplicates in column E as 'DUPLICATE — SKIP', then create Paystack recipients for all non-duplicate rows and write the recipient codes to column D.
The account names need cleaning before submission
Trim leading and trailing whitespace from the account names in column C, then create Paystack transfer recipients for each row using account number from A, bank code from B, and cleaned name — write the returned recipient code to column D.
Validate accounts, clean names, deduplicate, and create in one shot
Trim the account names in column C, remove duplicate account numbers from column A (mark them in column E as SKIP), validate each unique account via Paystack using the bank code in column B, write the confirmed account name to column F, then create a transfer recipient for each validated row and write the recipient code to column D.
Running the full chain in one prompt means you enter Friday with a clean, validated recipient list — not a half-finished one you'll be debugging during the payout window.
Try It
Open the sheet where you manage your payout roster, then Get the 7-day free trial of SheetXAI and ask it to create your Paystack recipients in bulk. For the next step in the workflow, see how to validate bank accounts before creating recipients, or how to initiate a bulk charge once recipients are set up.