How to Connect TPSCheck to Google Sheets (4 Methods Compared)

The Problem With Getting Sheet Data In and Out of TPSCheck

You have a Google Sheet full of UK phone numbers — prospect lists, form submissions, purchased databases — and you need to know which ones are registered on the Telephone Preference Service or Corporate TPS before your outbound team dials a single one.

TPSCheck is good at answering that question fast and at scale. But the default way people interact with it is one number at a time through a browser interface or a raw API call. When your sheet has 3,000 rows and a campaign launch date, that default becomes a wall.

Below are the four common ways teams handle this. Only the last one scales.

Method 1: Manual Copy-Paste

The default approach is to pull numbers from the sheet one at a time, check them manually in the TPSCheck interface or lookup tool, and paste the result back. For a list of thirty numbers, that's annoying. For a list of 3,000, it's the kind of task that gets quietly handed to an intern and done wrong.

The specific grind with TPS data is that the result is binary — registered or clear — but you also want the number type, the carrier, the geographic region. So you're not just copying a yes/no back. You're copying four separate fields per row. And because TPS registration can change monthly, any list you screened three weeks ago needs to be re-screened before the next campaign. That monthly cycle is where this approach completely falls apart.

Method 2: Zapier or Make

Both platforms have TPSCheck connector options. You can set up a trigger that fires when a new row appears in your sheet, calls the TPSCheck API, and writes the status back into adjacent columns.

Before you go further — a quick check: do you know what a webhook trigger is? Have you mapped API response fields before? Does "authentication token" mean something concrete to you? If any of those feel abstract, this path is going to cost you more setup time than the list is worth. Skip ahead to Method 3 or 4.

If you're still here, the flow works. You authenticate, find the right TPSCheck endpoint, configure the trigger on a sheet row, map the response fields to your columns, and test with a real number. It runs. The problem is that it only processes one number per trigger fire.

A list of 3,000 numbers means 3,000 trigger fires.

That's not just a task-count problem — it's a task-history problem. When row 847 returns an unexpected response and the rest silently skip past it, finding and fixing the break is a debugging session, not a fix.

You probably just need to know which numbers to flag before the campaign goes out. You probably have no idea how to debug a Zap that's silently erroring on rows above 800. So you push it to whoever on your team understands automation pipelines — and now you're waiting on Slack while the campaign clock ticks.

Method 3: The Previous Generation — Connector Add-Ons

Until recently, the best option for repeatable spreadsheet ↔ TPSCheck workflows was a category of add-ons that let you configure column mappings against an API endpoint, save a template, and run it on demand. You'd pick your range, tag your fields, save the config, run the check.

That was a real step up from copy-paste. The output was consistent, the template was reusable, and your team didn't have to redo the field mapping every run.

But you were still responsible for designing the template, mapping each output field to the right column, writing the filter logic to separate TPS-registered from clear numbers, and maintaining the config every time your sheet structure changed. The tool moved the data; the thinking was still entirely on you. And when someone renamed the "Phone" column to "Mobile Number," your config silently broke until someone noticed the output was empty.

This is the previous generation. It worked, but it asked a lot of the operator.

The Easy Way: Using SheetXAI in Google Sheets

There is a different way entirely. SheetXAI is an AI agent that lives inside your Google Sheet. It reads the sheet, understands what you're looking at, and through its built-in TPSCheck integration it can screen, classify, and flag your phone numbers without any template setup. You just ask.

Example 1: Bulk TPS screen before a campaign

For each phone number in column A, check it against the TPS and CTPS registers using TPSCheck and write the registration status, number type, and carrier into columns B, C, and D

SheetXAI runs the check across the entire list, writes "registered" or "clear" into column B, the number type (mobile/landline/VoIP) into column C, and the network provider into column D. Numbers that return an unexpected response get flagged with an error note rather than silently dropped.

Example 2: Combined validation and classification

For all numbers in column A of the "Prospects" tab, validate each one with TPSCheck and write whether it's valid, its line type, its network, its region, and its TPS status into columns B through F — then highlight any TPS-registered row in red

The pattern: instead of running the compliance check first and then formatting the output, you ask for both in one prompt. SheetXAI handles the conditional logic and the formatting inline.

Try It

Get the 7-day free trial of SheetXAI and open any Google Sheet with UK phone numbers, then ask it to screen the list against TPSCheck and write the results back. The TPSCheck integration is included in every SheetXAI plan.