The Scenario
You are the operations coordinator at a fulfillment house. Your largest client just handed you a new customer roster: 500 pre-validated addresses in a Google Sheet, one per row, columns A through F covering name, street address, city, state, ZIP, and country.
Before you can run a single shipment, every one of these addresses needs to exist as a Shippo address object. The client wants to reuse them across hundreds of shipments over the next six months, so they need to be in Shippo, not just in the sheet.
The slow version:
- You open Shippo's address creation UI
- You fill in the fields for address one
- You save it, note the address ID, type it back into column G of the sheet
- You do this 499 more times
- You finish sometime next week
- You still have to QA for typos on every single one.
The fast version is one prompt.
The Easy Way: One Prompt in SheetXAI
SheetXAI reads the address sheet and calls Shippo's address creation endpoint for every row, so you never touch the Shippo UI.
Open the SheetXAI sidebar and type:
Create a Shippo address for each row in my Customer Addresses sheet using columns A through F for name, street1, city, state, ZIP, and country. Write the returned address object ID into column G.
SheetXAI reads the 500 rows, submits each one to Shippo as an address object, and writes the returned Shippo address ID into column G row by row. When it finishes, you have a completed address roster with every ID in the sheet.
What You Get
A fully populated address import:
- Column G — the Shippo address object ID for each row, ready to reference in future shipment requests
- Invalid rows flagged — if Shippo returns a validation error for a row, SheetXAI writes the error message into column G instead of an ID, so you can find and fix them in one pass
- No UI clicks — 500 addresses created without opening the Shippo dashboard once
The IDs in column G are immediately usable. The next time you create a shipment for one of these customers, SheetXAI (or your own code) can reference the address ID directly instead of re-entering the address.
What If the Data Is Not Quite Ready
Address imports are rarely clean on the first export. SheetXAI fixes and submits in the same prompt.
When country values are inconsistent
Some rows say "United States," some say "US," some say "USA." Shippo's API wants a two-letter ISO country code.
Normalize the country values in column F to two-letter ISO codes (US, CA, GB, etc.) before creating the Shippo addresses. Write the Shippo address ID into column G for each row.
When street addresses contain apartment numbers in the same field
The export has "123 Main St Apt 4B" in column B. Shippo has separate fields for street1 and street2.
For each row, check column B for an apartment or suite number. If found, split it into street1 and street2 before creating the Shippo address. Write the Shippo address ID into column G.
When you only want to create addresses for rows missing an ID
You have already run this import once and column G has IDs for the first 300 rows. You only want to create addresses for the remaining 200.
Skip any row in my Customer Addresses sheet that already has a value in column G. For all rows where column G is empty, create a Shippo address using columns A through F and write the new address ID into column G.
When you want to validate, create, and flag undeliverable addresses in one shot
You want a clean signal on which addresses are likely undeliverable before you rely on them for shipments.
For each row in my Customer Addresses sheet, create a Shippo address object using columns A through F. If Shippo returns a validation result, write the address ID into column G and either "valid" or "invalid" into column H based on the validation flag. For rows where Shippo returns an error, write the error message into column H.
The pattern: submit, validate, and flag in one go. No second pass.
Try It
Get the 7-day free trial of SheetXAI and open any address list in Google Sheets, then ask it to create Shippo address objects for every row. The Shippo integration is included in every SheetXAI plan. For what comes next, see how to create Shippo orders from a sales orders sheet or the Shippo in Google Sheets overview.