The Scenario
You are a 3PL operator. You are onboarding a new client who has 12 warehouse locations across the US. Their names and full addresses are in a Google Sheet — one row per location, columns A through F: warehouse name, street, city, state, ZIP, and country. You need all 12 created as origin warehouses in ShipEngine before Monday's label run.
Creating them manually means 12 separate trips through ShipEngine's warehouse setup UI: log in, click "Add Warehouse," fill in the form, save, copy the warehouse ID, paste it back into the sheet. Twelve times. It is Friday at 3 PM.
The bad version of the next two hours:
- Log into ShipEngine
- Navigate to the warehouse settings
- Fill in warehouse one
- Copy the returned warehouse ID
- Paste it into the sheet
- Repeat eleven more times
- Make a typo in warehouse seven's ZIP code that causes label failures on Monday
- Find out on Monday.
The fast version is one prompt.
The Easy Way: One Prompt in SheetXAI
SheetXAI is an AI agent inside your spreadsheet that reads the rows and calls ShipEngine's warehouse creation API for each one, so all 12 warehouses are live and the IDs are back in the sheet before you leave for the weekend.
Open the SheetXAI sidebar and type:
Create a ShipEngine warehouse for each row in my Warehouse Locations sheet using column A for name, and columns B through F for the full origin address — street, city, state, ZIP, and country. Write the returned warehouse ID into column G for each row.
SheetXAI reads the rows, calls the ShipEngine warehouse creation API per row, and writes each returned warehouse ID into column G. Twelve warehouses, twelve IDs, all before 4 PM.
What You Get
Column G populated with the ShipEngine warehouse ID for every row:
- Warehouse ID — the ShipEngine identifier you use when creating shipments and labels from that origin
- Error flag — if any warehouse creation fails, SheetXAI writes the error reason into column G instead of an ID so you know immediately which one needs a fix
The IDs in column G are ready to reference in your next prompt. If you want to immediately create a test label from warehouse one, tell SheetXAI to do that — it reads the ID straight from the sheet.
What If the Data Is Not Quite Ready
Location data from clients is rarely format-ready for an API. SheetXAI handles the cleanup and the creation in the same prompt.
When state values are full names instead of two-letter codes
The client sent the sheet with "Texas" instead of "TX" in column D.
Convert the state values in column D of the Warehouse Locations sheet from full names to two-letter abbreviations. Then create a ShipEngine warehouse for each row and write the returned warehouse ID into column G.
When some ZIP codes are missing leading zeros
A few Northeast warehouses have four-digit ZIPs because Excel silently dropped the leading zero.
Pad any ZIP codes in column E of the Warehouse Locations sheet that are fewer than five characters with a leading zero. Then create a ShipEngine warehouse for each row and write the returned warehouse ID into column G.
When the client wants a second "return address" warehouse for each location
Each physical location needs both a ship-from warehouse and a separate return-to warehouse in ShipEngine.
Create two ShipEngine warehouses per row in the Warehouse Locations sheet — one labeled
[Name] - Outboundand one labeled[Name] - Returns, both using the same address from columns B through F. Write the outbound warehouse ID into column G and the returns warehouse ID into column H.
When you need to create the warehouses, immediately test each one with a rate quote, and log the result
You want to confirm each warehouse is correctly configured before Monday.
Create a ShipEngine warehouse for each row in the Warehouse Locations sheet using columns A through F and write the returned warehouse ID into column G. Then for each warehouse, fetch a test rate quote from that warehouse ZIP to ZIP code 90210 for a 2 lb package and write the cheapest available rate into column H. If any warehouse returns a rate error, write the error into column H instead.
The pattern: create the warehouses and validate them in one prompt, so you do not discover a misconfiguration on a live label run.
Try It
Get the 7-day free trial of SheetXAI and open any sheet with a list of warehouse locations, then ask it to create them in ShipEngine and write the IDs back. The ShipEngine integration is included in every SheetXAI plan. For related workflows, see how to get bulk rate quotes from your warehouses or the ShipEngine in Google Sheets overview.