How to Connect Raisely to Google Sheets (4 Methods Compared)

The Problem with Getting Raisely Data Into Your Sheet

You run fundraising campaigns on Raisely. The donors are in Raisely, the fundraiser profiles are in Raisely, the subscriptions are in Raisely — and your board, your ops team, and your finance lead are all asking for a spreadsheet.

Raisely does not push data into Google Sheets. Every time someone wants a donation report, a leaderboard, a subscription audit, or an offline donation log, someone on your team has to go get it. That is the real cost: not the complexity of the task, but the number of times the task gets repeated.

Below are the four ways nonprofit and fundraising teams typically move Raisely data into a Google Sheet. Only the last one handles the full range of what actually comes up.

Method 1: Export a CSV From Raisely and Open It in Sheets

The default. Raisely lets you download CSV exports from its admin dashboard. You open the export, it lands in a downloaded file, you drag it into Google Drive, open it in Sheets, and clean up the column headers.

When this works:

• You need a one-off snapshot
• The report is simple: a flat list of donations or donors
• The data does not need cross-referencing with anything else in the sheet

When it breaks:

• You need to pull from multiple endpoints — donations, profiles, subscriptions — and join them
• You need to run the same report every week and the export format changes
• You need to write data back to Raisely (offline donations, profile updates) — a CSV cannot do that
• You need confirmation IDs or API response data logged next to the source rows

The export is fine for one-time reads. For anything that runs on a cadence, or for any write operation, it falls apart immediately.

Method 2: Use Zapier or Make to Sync Raisely Events to a Sheet

Zapier and Make both integrate with Raisely. You can set up a Zap that fires when a new donation comes in and appends a row to a Google Sheet.

This works for event-driven moments:

• New donation received → append a row
• New fundraiser registered → add to a leaderboard tab
• Subscription status changes → update a status column

This fails for analytical or batch work:

• Anything that needs to pull historical data in bulk (Raisely does not push history through webhooks)
• Promo code analysis, subscription audits, interaction history exports — none of these are event-triggered
• Writing back to Raisely (creating offline donations, updating profiles) requires custom Zap steps that quickly become brittle
• The 1,200-donation post-campaign export the board wants on Monday cannot come from a Zap that fires one row at a time

You also pay per task, and a 1,200-donation sync costs 1,200 task credits. The math does not work for high-volume campaigns.

Method 3: The Previous Generation — Raisely API Connector Scripts

Until recently, the best option for teams that needed recurring Raisely data in a sheet was a category of custom scripts and API connector tools. A developer or a technically confident ops person would write a Google Apps Script that called the Raisely API, parsed the JSON, and wrote the results into a named tab.

That was a real step up from manual CSV exports. The script ran on a schedule, the sheet refreshed itself, and the ops team did not have to touch it between runs.

But you were still responsible for everything the script did not handle: the column mapping, the pagination logic for campaigns with thousands of donors, the error handling when the API returned a 429, the decision about which fields to include and what to do with nested objects. When Raisely updated their API schema, the script broke. When the campaign changed structure, the script needed a rewrite.

This is the category we think of as the previous generation. It worked, but it required someone technical to maintain it, and it only handled the reads. Writes — creating offline donations in bulk, updating fundraiser profiles from a sheet — were usually a separate, more painful script.

The Easy Way: Using SheetXAI in Google Sheets

There is a different way entirely. SheetXAI is an AI agent that lives inside your Google Sheet. It reads the sheet, understands what you need, and through its built-in Raisely integration it can pull donation data, fundraiser profiles, subscriptions, promo codes, orders, and interaction history — or write offline donations and profile updates back to Raisely — from a plain-English prompt. No script, no Zap, no CSV.

Example 1: Your Campaign Just Closed and the Board Wants the Data

A spring fundraising campaign closed yesterday. 1,200 donations. The board meeting is Friday.

List all donations from my Raisely campaign 'spring-gala-2025' and import donor name, email, amount, currency, and date into this sheet starting at A2. Sort by amount descending.

SheetXAI calls the Raisely API, handles pagination across all 1,200 records, and writes the full dataset into the sheet. The board gets a clean tab with every donation in it, not a CSV attachment.

Example 2: Your Data Lives Somewhere Else Too

Your donor data is split between Raisely and a legacy CRM. You want to enrich the Raisely export with giving history from the CRM before you share it:

Fetch all donors from my Raisely campaign 'annual-fund-2025' into this sheet. Then look up each email in the CRM tab and add a 'Total Historical Giving' column from column D of that tab. Flag anyone over $1,000 total as 'Major Donor' in a new Segment column.

SheetXAI reads the Raisely data, joins it to the CRM tab, and builds the enriched report. One prompt, end to end, with the sheet as the working layer between both data sources.

Which Method Should You Use

For a true one-off snapshot where you just need a flat donor list and you have time to clean the columns yourself, the CSV export is fine. For event-driven row-by-row tracking — new donation comes in, a row appears in the sheet — Zapier or Make do the job.

For everything else, the cases where you need to pull bulk historical data, run analysis across multiple endpoints, write back to Raisely, or do any of this on a repeating cadence, SheetXAI is the only option that handles it in one prompt without a script.

If your team runs the same report before every board meeting, the time saved on the second run pays back the setup of the first.

Try It

Get the 7-day free trial of SheetXAI and connect it to your Raisely account, then ask it to pull your latest campaign's donations into a sheet. The Raisely integration is included in every plan.

For specific workflows, see how to import donations for board reporting, how to build a fundraiser leaderboard, or browse the full integrations directory.