How to Request Payments with Stripe Checkout and Google Sheets – Digital Inspiration

How to use Google Sheets to generate Stripe payment links and request payments in any currency from customers anywhere in the world!

We’ve previously featured Amit Agarwal’s Razorpay and Google Sheets payment solution. This latest example from Amit highlights how to integrate Stripe payments with Google Sheets. The source post contains the code you’ll need, how to setup and also automation options.

Source: How to Request Payments with Stripe Checkout and Google Sheets – Digital Inspiration

Create personal stock portfolio tracker with Google Sheets and Google Data Studio

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The idea is to take advantage of what Google Sheets and Google Data Studio offer and pull them together to build a personal stock portfolio tracker.

This post provides an insight into how you can maximise the combination of Google Sheets, Data Studio and Apps Script to create powerful dashboards. The source link provides an overview of the solution and if you are interested in finding out more about how this solution works visit LION stock portfolio tracker guide (from there you can make a copy of the demo and see the code).  

Source: Create personal stock portfolio tracker with Google Sheets and Google Data Studio

How to Create Automated Snapshots of your Google Sheet using Google Apps Script

In this video, we’ll show you how to automate snapshots of your Google Sheets and have those logs stored in a separate Google Drive folder so that you can keep your logs nicely organized for future reference. To do this, we’ll be using Google Apps Script to create a script that references the SpreadsheetApp library and the DriveApp library.

There seems to be an increasing number of YouTube channels dedicating content to highlight Google Apps Script solutions. Here’s the latest one we’ve come across from aguycalledjoe at bootstrapping.tools

How to Use Service Accounts and OAuth2 in Google Apps Script

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Give your scripts privileges that your users don’t have … In 99% of all cases, authorizations in Google Apps Script are extremely straightforward. When a user executes their script, they run it as themselves with their respective authorization scopes. … However, what if you need to give more rights to your app beyond what your intended users will have? … This is where service accounts come in.

A useful post to find out more about service accounts and how to use them with Google Apps Script. The tutorial put together by Dmitry Kostyuk includes example code for using a service accounts with Firestore, BigQuery and the Admin Directory API.

Source: How to Use Service Accounts and OAuth2 in Google Apps Script

Create Google Calendar events from sending yourself a Gmail on a mobile device using Google Apps Script

This Google Apps Script allows you to create a Google Calendar event by sending yourself an email in Gmail. Unlike Gmail’s current feature to create Google Calendar events, this script allows you to be on a mobile device.

We’ve featured a couple of contributions from Al Chen in the past and this is another great one. For some context Al has also posted Productivity hack for creating a Google Calendar event by sending yourself an email. For the source code and setup follow the link at the end of the post. If you use Product Hunt and find this solution you can upvote here.

Source: GitHub – al-codaio/events-from-gmail: Create Google Calendar events from sending yourself a Gmail on a mobile device using Google Apps Script.

Google Apps Script for Android Translation – Saravana Thiyagaraj

Normally we get strings.xml files from our translation team, but today was one of those days, where (due to time constraints) we got the source Google Sheet file. We had to generate strings.xml files out of these. This gave me the perfect opportunity to explore Google Apps Script which you could run on your Google Sheet.

This post highlights how Google Apps Script can quickly solve those little problems, in this case how to generate language .xml files used in Android. Follow the link to the source post for an explanation and code.

Source: Google Apps Script for Android Translation

Google Apps Script Basics – Variables and getting & setting values

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In this post, we’re going look at how variables are set up and how they can store various pieces of information. We’re also going to look at reading and writing data from a spreadsheet, which is one of the most common tasks when working with one.

We offer a wide range of community contributions here on AppsScriptPulse. This one might be useful if you are just learning to code and want to understand some of the fundamentals or if you’ve been using Apps Script for a while learn about variable types available in the V8 runtime.

Source: Apps Script Basics – Variables and getting & setting values

How to Request Payments with Razorpay and Google Sheets – Digital Inspiration

How to use Google Sheets to generate Razorpay payment links and easily accept payments from customers anywhere in the world!

Razorpay is a popular payment gateway in India that allows you to accept online payments from customers anywhere in the world. Your customers can pay with credit cards, debit cards, Google Pay, Walmart’s PhonePe and other UPI apps.

A great solution from Amit Agarwal for creating payment links in Google Sheets for Razorpay. The source post provides more details of how this works and setup required. The post also outlines how you can combine this with a mail merge to sort all your invoicing needs.

Source: How to Request Payments with Razorpay and Google Sheets – Digital Inspiration

Using community connectors to go beyond filter by email in Data Studio – pablofelip.online

This article discusses row-level security in Google Data Studio and shows how community connectors can be used to overcome the limitations of the native feature when accessing data stored in Google Sheets.

I don’t think one of our summaries could ever do justice to this contribution from Pablo Felip. The post has a very thorough summary of row-level security and how Community Connectors coded in Apps Script can be used for additional levels of functionality.

Source: Using community connectors to go beyond filter by email in Data Studio – pablofelip.online