The Scenario
It's 7 AM Saturday. You're the operations manager for a restaurant chain and your weekend catering runs start at 10. There are 120 delivery orders sitting in a Google Sheet — customer names, phone numbers, addresses, items, delivery windows — and none of them are in Shipday yet.
The drivers need their assignments in the app before they clock in. You have two hours.
The bad version:
- Open Shipday in one tab, the sheet in another, and start typing: customer name, phone number, delivery address, item list, delivery window. Save. Next row.
- Somewhere around row 40, you realize you pasted the wrong address into the order above it. You go back to fix it, lose your place, and start second-guessing every row you've done.
- At row 85 your laptop restarts for an update. You pick back up from where you think you left off. Three orders get entered twice. Saturday dispatch is a mess.
Nobody does operations management to spend their Saturday morning as a data-entry clerk. You have 35 minutes to get this done before the pre-dispatch call.
The Easy Way: One Prompt in SheetXAI
SheetXAI is an AI agent that lives inside your Google Sheet. It reads your data, understands your column layout, and uses its built-in Shipday integration to create all 120 orders in one shot — not one trigger at a time, not one click at a time.
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Create a Shipday delivery order for each row in my Weekend Orders sheet using column A for customer name, B for phone, C for delivery address, D for order items, and E for delivery time — write the Shipday order ID back into column F
What You Get
- One Shipday order created per row, in order, processing the full batch.
- The Shipday order ID written into column F for every row that succeeded.
- Any row missing a required field (address or phone) flagged in column G with a short error note instead of silently skipping.
- No partial-batch ambiguity — you can see at a glance which rows landed and which need attention before dispatch.
What If the Data Is Not Quite Ready
Phone numbers have formatting inconsistencies
Some rows have (555) 867-5309, others have 5558675309, others have 555.867.5309. Shipday expects a consistent format.
Normalize all phone numbers in column B of my Weekend Orders sheet to digits-only format, then create a Shipday order for each row using column A for customer name, the cleaned phone for the phone field, column C for address, D for items, and E for delivery time — write order IDs into column F
Delivery windows are in a different tab
The main sheet has customer and address data but delivery times live in a separate Scheduling tab, matched by order number in column A.
Join my Weekend Orders sheet with the Scheduling tab on the order number in column A, then create a Shipday order for each matched row using the customer name, phone, and address from Weekend Orders and the delivery time from Scheduling — write the Shipday order ID back into Weekend Orders column F
Some orders are flagged as hold
Column F contains either "confirmed" or "hold" — only confirmed rows should become Shipday orders.
Create a Shipday delivery order for each row in my Weekend Orders sheet where column F says "confirmed" — use column A for customer name, B for phone, C for address, D for items, E for delivery time — write the Shipday order ID into column G and leave column G blank for held rows
Clean the list, flag duplicates, and create orders in one pass
The sheet was compiled from two sources. There may be duplicate addresses. You want deduplication, a count of how many orders went to each address, and then order creation — all before 8 AM.
In my Weekend Orders sheet, identify any rows where column C (delivery address) is duplicated, mark column H as "duplicate" for any repeat after the first, then create a Shipday order for every non-duplicate row using columns A through E, write the order ID into column F, and write a summary of how many unique addresses were processed into cell A1 of a new Summary tab
Cleanup and creation belong in the same ask — there is no reason to make them two separate steps.
Try It
Get the 7-day free trial of SheetXAI and open your weekend order sheet, then tell it how many rows need to land in Shipday and which columns hold what. Also worth reading: how to pull active Shipday orders back into a live dispatch view, and the hub overview on connecting Shipday to Google Sheets.