The Scenario
A CX manager flagged 25 surveys during last week's account audit: all of them have zero responses, all of them are more than a year old, and none of them belong to anyone on the current team. She got sign-off to delete them. The survey IDs are already in column A of a Google Sheet. She just needs them gone, and she needs a record of what was deleted in case anyone asks later.
The bad version:
- Go to SurveyMonkey, navigate to the survey list, search for the first ID, find it, click the three-dot menu, select Delete, confirm in the dialog, go back to the list.
- Do this 25 times, knowing that SurveyMonkey's search by ID is not always reliable and sometimes you end up on the wrong survey's page.
- After 20 deletions, lose track of which ones you've done and have to cross-check the spreadsheet manually to make sure you haven't skipped one or doubled up.
She got sign-off on a Tuesday afternoon. Spending that Tuesday afternoon manually deleting surveys one by one is not what sign-off was supposed to require.
The Easy Way: One Prompt in SheetXAI
SheetXAI is an AI agent that lives inside your Google Sheet. It reads the survey IDs from the sheet and deletes each one from SurveyMonkey, writing back the outcome per row so the record stays in the sheet.
Delete every SurveyMonkey survey whose ID is listed in column A of this sheet — those are stale surveys confirmed for removal. Write 'deleted' into column B when each succeeds, and write the error message into column B if any deletion fails.
What You Get
- Each survey ID in column A processed against SurveyMonkey's delete endpoint.
- Column B updated per row: 'deleted' on success, the API error message if a deletion fails.
- The sheet becomes the deletion log — no need to keep a separate record.
What If the Data Is Not Quite Ready
Some rows in column A are blank — skip those
Delete each SurveyMonkey survey listed in column A. Skip any row where column A is blank. Write 'deleted' into column B on success and the error reason on failure.
You want to confirm each survey has zero responses before deleting
For each survey ID in column A, first check the SurveyMonkey response count. If the count is 0, delete the survey and write 'deleted' into column B. If the count is greater than 0, skip the deletion and write 'SKIPPED — has responses' into column B.
You want a timestamp in column C for each deletion
Delete each SurveyMonkey survey in column A, write 'deleted' or the error into column B, and write the timestamp of the deletion attempt into column C in the format YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM.
You need to verify zero responses, delete confirmed-empty surveys, log the outcome with timestamp, and skip any with data — all in one pass
For each survey ID in column A, fetch the SurveyMonkey response count. If 0, delete the survey and write 'deleted' into column B and the current timestamp into column C. If the response count is greater than 0, write 'SKIPPED — [count] responses' into column B and leave column C blank. Skip blank rows in column A entirely.
One prompt handles the pre-check, the conditional delete, and the status log — so the audit trail is complete the moment the run finishes.
Try It
Get the 7-day free trial of SheetXAI and open the Google Sheet with your list of stale survey IDs, then ask it to delete each one and write the outcome back per row. For pulling the account inventory that feeds your next cleanup cycle, see the spoke on auditing all surveys. For the full SurveyMonkey overview, see the hub page.