The Scenario
You are a platform operator managing shipping for multiple merchants who sell into Europe. Each merchant wants to see their shipping costs in EUR, not USD, before they approve the label budget for the week.
You have a Google Sheet called EU Orders with one row per shipment, origin address in columns A and B, destination in columns C through F, and weight in column G. You need the cheapest USPS, FedEx, and UPS rates in EUR for each row, plus transit days, before sending the merchants a quote summary.
The bad version:
- You go into Shippo and get rates for order one, specifying EUR as the currency
- You note the top three carriers, switch to the sheet, type them in
- You repeat for the next 40 rows
- By the time you are done, the merchants have already approved last week's rates by mistake.
The fast version is one prompt.
The Easy Way: One Prompt in SheetXAI
SheetXAI reads the order sheet, fetches Shippo rates in EUR for each row, and writes the three cheapest options directly into the sheet.
Open the SheetXAI sidebar and type:
For each shipment in my EU Orders sheet, fetch Shippo rates filtered to EUR and write carrier name, service, EUR price, and transit days into columns E through H.
SheetXAI reads origin, destination, and weight from each row, calls Shippo's rate endpoint with currency set to EUR, and writes carrier name, service level, EUR price, and transit days for the cheapest option into E, F, G, and H.
What You Get
A per-shipment rate comparison in EUR across all rows:
- Carrier name — USPS, FedEx, UPS, or others connected to your account
- Service level — the specific service (First Class International, FedEx International Economy, etc.)
- EUR price — the rate Shippo quoted in euros, not converted from USD by you
- Transit days — estimated delivery time so your merchants can compare speed vs. cost
Want the top three options per row, not just the cheapest? Tell SheetXAI to write the three cheapest options per order into adjacent columns instead.
What If the Data Is Not Quite Ready
International rate requests have more moving parts than domestic ones. SheetXAI handles edge cases inline.
When destination addresses have inconsistent country codes
Some rows have "DE" for Germany, some have "Germany," some have "Deutschland." Shippo's API needs ISO country codes.
Normalize the destination country values in column F of my EU Orders sheet to two-letter ISO codes before fetching Shippo rates. Write the cheapest carrier, service, EUR rate, and transit days into columns E through H.
When you want three cheapest options per order instead of just the lowest
Your merchants want to see the price-speed trade-off, not just the floor.
For each row in my EU Orders sheet, fetch Shippo rates in EUR. Write the three cheapest options per order into three groups of columns: carrier and EUR price for option 1 in columns E and F, option 2 in columns G and H, option 3 in columns I and J.
When weight is recorded in pounds but Shippo needs ounces for some shipments
Your export uses pounds in column G. Small shipments under 1 lb are more accurately quoted in ounces.
For each row in my EU Orders sheet, check the weight in column G. If the weight is under 1 pound, convert to ounces before fetching Shippo rates. Otherwise use pounds directly. Fetch rates in EUR and write carrier, service, EUR rate, and transit days into columns E through H.
When you want to pull rates, pick the best option per merchant's preference, and write a per-merchant quote summary in one shot
Each merchant has a preference: some want the cheapest option, some want the fastest under a price cap.
For each row in my EU Orders sheet, fetch Shippo rates in EUR. Look up the merchant name in column A and their rate preference in the Preferences tab (column A for merchant name, column B for preference: "cheapest" or "fastest under $15"). Apply the right selection rule per merchant. Write the selected carrier, EUR rate, and transit days into columns E, F, and G. Then create a new tab called "Merchant Quotes" summarizing total estimated cost per merchant grouped by carrier.
The pattern: fetch rates, apply business logic per merchant, and produce the quote summary in one prompt.
Try It
Get the 7-day free trial of SheetXAI and open any sheet with international shipment data, then ask it to fetch Shippo rates in EUR or another currency for every row. The Shippo integration is included in every SheetXAI plan. For related workflows, see how to get live rate quotes for domestic orders or the Shippo in Google Sheets overview.