Sheet2Site Documentations

What is Sheet2Site

Sheet2Site is a tool that will help you create a beautiful website from Google Sheets with pictures, text, filters and links. Make a website without writing code from just one Google Sheet.

What sites you can make?

You can make grid style sites, for example a list of cities, events, tools, equipment, etc.

Should I create a new webiste or Embed to existing?

If you already have an existing website you can embed Sheet2Site page to your website with a code snippet. It will keep your logo, navigation bar footer. It will be on a separete page like: yourwebsite.com/directory
Or you can create a entire website from scratch using templates. Each site will have navigation bar, header, filters, cards and details pages.

Why should I use Sheet2Site?

Because if you have an idea and you know basics of Google Sheets you can easily and quickly create a website and make your idea live without procrastination and pain

Getting Started

1. Install Sheet2Site Google Sheet Add-on:

Install

2. Choose a template and wait until all data will be copied to your sheet:

3. Press "Update website".

You will open a link like this:
https://sheet2site.com/api/v3/?key=1beTW17FZrUiRcyF3BRpemBhXbtROOh91iDTbfWX4YGA&g;=1 .
It's your website. This link will not change, so you can save it to use it the future.

4. Try to change the text in a "Header" tab to understand how it works:

5. Push changes to your website from a Google Sheet press "Update Website" or open the link if you saved it previusly, wait 15 secs and reload the page again.

Basics

Each Sheet2Site website consists of 1 Google Sheet. The website is updating automatically if there are any changes made in the sheet. The website is consist of parts like "Header", "Cards", "Description" and other. Each of this part is represented in a tab in the bottom of this Google Sheet. In tabs you can customize or hide some specific part of your webiste.

Tabs:

Layout - The live preview of your website where you can see how it will looks like. Here you can choose template for each of parts of your website or hide them.
Design - Colors and fonts of your website
Navbar - Navigation bar that located in the top of your website that allows you to connect multiple subpages and add the logo
Header - Header's main and secondary titles, hero image, call to actions
Filters - Filter settings for cards
Cards - The database of items of your website. It could be goods, items, job vacancies, events etc.
Extra Sections - Top and bottom extra section with text and image
Map - You can create an embedded map with locations
Footer - Footer settings of your webiste with links such as "Made by" or any other.
Settings - Here you can add integrations with Google Analitics, chat. Add SEO data, favicon icon and other.
Detaile Pages - List of detail pages of your website where you can add more infor about some specific item and it will be avalible on a link like: yourwebsite.com/detailpage
Advanced - Here you can add custom HML and Javascript for your website. For example you can add sharing buttongs.

Layout

In the Layout tab you can select a template of each parts of your website live preview of your website where you can see how it will looks like. Here you can choose template for each of parts of your website or hide them.

To open a link of your website you can click "Update Website" green button

Design

Colors and fonts of your website. To change colors of your website, just as easy to change background color in Google Sheet:

Font Style
Header's background color
Header's button color
Header's button text color
Card's button color
Card's button text color

Link name: How user will see it in the navbar
Type of link: Link or button
Link destination / Sheet2Site URL: Sheet2Site link will link to a sheet2site subpage. This will be shown as yourwebsite.com/subpage. Also works with Google Forms and Typeform. External links will take visitors to another site
Link shown in address bar when clicked: This is a preview of how your sheet2site URL will look e.g. yourwebsite.com/subpage.

Header template

To change header template please go to the Layout tab and select the header template

Header titles

Call to action

You can add call to action buttons in the header. You can add a button with:

A link to external site
Mailchimp email subscribe form
A link to a detail page
A link to Typeform pop-up
A link to Google form pafe

In the Header tab Header Button Link and Header Button Link you can add your call to action button. It looks like this:

Cards

This is a database of the items of your website. It could be goods, items, job vacancies, events etc. It consist of title, secondary title, links to external websites or detail pages, images links, tags and filters categories:

Images

To be able to add images to your website you need to host them somewhere. Here are some options:

Find in Google

The easiest way is just to find some images in Google Images , select image that you like make a right click and select Copy Image Address

Images hosting

If all your images on your computer the easiest way is to upload them to free image hosting. You can upload 1 or multiple images at once.

Imgur

Imgur is a free hosting that you can upload your image and use on your website.

Upload the image: Drag and Drop the image or Choose file
Right click uploaded image. Copy Image Address link. It should looks like this https://i.imgur.com/WYSsP12.png

Bulk Images Upload

Imgur supports bulk images upload. Just select multiple images from your computer and it will upload all of them.

After Right click on each uploaded image. Copy Image Address link and put it to the sheet

ImgBB

ImgBB is another free hosting that you can upload your image and use on your website.

Start uploading and select an the image
Open the link that you got.
Right click uploaded image. Copy Image Address link. It should looks like this


https://i.ibb.co/8DmtBvz/download-1.png

Find on Unslpash

Unsplash is great website where you can find some beautiful, free images and photos that you can download and use for any project

Another cool thing that Unsplash support image editing on the fly by adding special parametrs into URL , so you don't need to use any software to edit your image.

Example: https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1525183995014-bd94c0750cd5?ixlib=rb-1.2.1&ixid;=eyJhcHBfaWQiOjEyMDd9&auto;=format&fit;=crop&w;=750&h;=400&q;=80&blur;=80

&fit;=crop : apply cropping to the image/
&w;=750 : width=750px
&h;=400 : heigh=400px
&q;=80 : quality of compression: 80%
&blur;=80 : apply 80% blur effect to the image.

Find on unDraw

undRaw is a open-source illustrations for every project you can imagine. You can even customize a color of your illustration.

Host on your Google Drive

It was not built to host images on the webiste, but you can still do it with with a bit of tricks:

Upload the image to Google Drive
Share
Copy the link and open it in the new window (this link will not work)
Press download
Get the link. it should looks like this https://drive.google.com/uc?authuser=0&id;=16tNzEGELfXdanDyfkuuH9hsO0o0dUkSy&export;=download

Version History

You can see all your website versions in your Google Sheet.

File -> Version History -> See Version History

You can see all your changes and you can revert back to any of them. It might be very useful when you accidentically meesed-up your website. To do it select a version and press restore in the top left corver.

Filters

There are two types of filters:

Single filters
Multi filters

You can switch or hide them in the Layout tab.

Single Filters

Users can filter your cards by one single creteria. For example a brand name.

How to use:

Layout tab -> Filters -> Single Filter
Filters tab -> Add filter button names only unique
Cards tab -> Filtering by this column -> Add filters with the same names as you named the filters buttons in the previus steps

Multi filters

Users can filter your cards based multiple creterias. For exampe "Brand Name" AND "Type" AND "Style" AND "Price"

How to use:

Layout tab -> Filters -> Single Filter
Filters tab -> Add unique filter button names.
Cards tab -> Filtering by this column -> Add filters names for each card (comma separeted) with the same names as you named the filters buttons in the previus steps. Exaple: Audio-Technica, Over-ear, DJ

Filters Formatting

If you have a lot of filters you might want to distinguish them for better visibility.

The best way to distinguish each of the group by a line break.

For example you have 2 groups of For exampe "Type" and "Brand Name"

Add an empty row with a space into your Filters tab between filters that you want to have a line break.

The row should not be just empty. You need enter a space " " inside:

You can add as many line breaks as you want. For example of you have 5 groups of filters just so add an empty row with a space between each of the,

Detail Page Sub Pages

With Sheet2Site you can create detail pages to show more detail information.

For SEO is important to not just have a one page website. Google likes websites with more pages and good content. To be able to do it, you can create more pages which will show detailed information.

There are different types of subpages so you can choose what will the best for your specific case:

Detail Pages

Detail Pages can show detailed information of a Product or it can About, Contact pages etc:

Click to preview

Detail pages links

Each detail page have its own unique link and looks like this:


https://sheet2site.com/api/v3/index.php?key=1dbdwZ3JHMR5Vh-8B9bBPQWvEx_tR7dlJjhigW1gs7OE

&page;=rolex-oyster


https://sheet2site.com/api/v3/index.php?key=1dbdwZ3JHMR5Vh-8B9bBPQWvEx_tR7dlJjhigW1gs7OE

&page;=about


example.com/

rolex-oyster


 example.com/

about

Sheet Example

Click to preview

How to add a Detail Page

Open Detailed Pages tab in your sheet.
Add a new row below A3

How to link your Detail Page to your Home Page

It will have much more sense if your detail page will be accessible from your home page so your users can find it. You can add a link of a detail page in 2 places:


Navbar

Click to preview

Link destination / sheet2site URL must have format ./about (including the dot) same as in the Detail Pages tab.


Cards


Link

Click to preview

Link must have format ./rolex-oyster (including the dot) same as in the Detail Pages tab.

Sheet2Site Nested Lists

If you have too big list on your home page it might be a good idea to split his list into 2 lists. So one list will be on the home page ( example.com ) and another will be on ( example.com/list2 )

How to create a Nested Lists?

Make a copy of your current sheet. File -> Make a copy
Share (top right corner) -> Get shareable link -> Anyone with a link can view
Press "Update website" and the sheet2site website link. This will be your list2
Open your home page sheet, navbar tab and add new row below:

Detail Page Pop Up window

If you don't need to have a separate url and you want just show more details for your product you can use Modal Pop-Up.

Important: It's working only in Business Template.

You can add extra information to your card that will will be pop-up when the user will click on the card. It's also works in embedded websites:

Click to preview

Just add this text information into Cards tab-> Detailed Description (column K)

Click to preview

Jobboard Detail Page

Job Board template supports automaticaly detail page links. When you click to expand the vacancy on a home page, you can see that the link in your browser changed.
It will add a vacancy page on the URL, so your users can share this specific vacancy url:
https://sheet2site.com/templates/jobboard/id-10x-engineer-apple

Click to preview

Note: You can use Job Board Template to make to only job boards. Check out showcase what websites people made using job board template.

Google Forms

For most website is important to collect many types of information from the users. Sheet2Site support different types of forms:

Google Forms

The easiest way to collect data from your users is to create a Google Form

Get the form link when you will click Send (top right cornver).

and put the link of this form https://forms.gle/dBmqfrcJY7zz6Fw38 as call to action.

Save responses to Google Sheet

You can save all your form responses to the Google Sheet. You don't need to use Zapier or any other third parties tools. Google Forms support Google Sheet export automatically and it can be setup just in a couple of seconds:

1. Go to responses tab in your Google Form and select "Create Spreadsheet"

2. You can create a new spreadsheet or select an existing one.

2.1 If you want to automatically add new responses your Sheet2Site website, please select your Sheet2Site Google Sheet:

3. You should see a new tab that was created in your Google Sheet.

Automatically show responses on the website

If you want that new data that was submitted by your users showing automatically in your website, you need to connect your "Form Repsonses" tab to your Card" tab with a formula. Please keep in mind that each column in "Form Responses" tab should be mapped to column in "Card" tab:

Also keep in mind that users can make mistakes when they are submitting the form so maybe try to not showing data immediately and check it manually first.

You can use something like this:


={'Form Responses'!B6:B,
'Form Responses'!C6:C,
'Form Responses'!E6:E,
'Form Responses'!F6:F,
'Form Responses'!G6:G,
'Form Responses'!H6:H,
'Form Responses'!L6:L,
'Form Responses'!K6:K,
'Form Responses'!N6:N,
'Form Responses'!A6:A,
'Form Responses'!M6:M
}

Email notifications for new responses

To know when some will submit the form you can active email notifications, otherwise you will need to open this form regulary to check if someone submit it or no.

How to enable Google Form email notifications if someone will submit the form

Create a new form forms.new or open an existing one
Responses
Click 3 dots
Get email notifications for new responses

Pre-fill Google Forms with URL Parameters

The cool thing about Google Forms is that you can pre-fill your form with some specific value in the link. Let's say you list of items and the ordering form and when the user when click on the item he will open the form with prefilled item id

How to pre-fill Google Form link

Create a new form forms.new or open an existing one
Click 3 dots in the top right corner
Get pre-filled link
Select field in your form that you want to pre-fill
Press Get link
Press Copy link in the bottom left corner pop-up

You should get a link like this: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeS97tfbZT1wrU0AM_gMBv_67_FkujKrQtSL-i5hlzwcE5X1g/viewform?usp=pp_url&entry.866939081;=id-123456

where &entry.866939081;= is your filed and id-123456 is a pre-filled value.

Native Forms

You can Google Form builder and make the form looks like a native website form

You can add embeded Google Form to your website to be able to collect data from users. For example you want to make a post a job form for your vacancy website.

You can use Google Forms as a form builder, but the form on your sheet2site website will looks like a native form. Once the user will click on the botton the form will appears as a pop-up modal.

If you will make any changes in the Google Form it will automatically update in the form on your webiste.

How to add Native Forms to your webiste:

1. Copy Google Form template

2. Add sheet2site@gmail.com as a collaborator:

3. Copy the link from your browser:

Link should looks like this (for edit Google Form not for preview it): https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1Hz4i_ie_0rxkIqPsRvOm4iDxprQdmvmcwlc193wXm-s/ edit

Do not use these links:

Short links: https://forms.gle/oyhMhCefmsZJGYNNGA
Preview links: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSexQk1x0Tte2J_-mkEH-yqalmdLnMlAH68NogNLTGWx3gkHUQ/ viewform

And paste it the navbar tab:

Important about Native Forms

1. Field types can be only: Short answer text

2. If you want to add an email field DO NOT press suggestion: Enable email collection setting. Just enter "Email" as a name of field and exit.

Typeform

You can add a embeded Typeform that will pop-up when a user will click a link or a button

To add a typeform please add a typeform link like https://andreyazimov.typeform.com/to/fM7ndm in your Google Sheet navbar tab

Demo (click post a job in the top right corner)

Import Typeform to Google Sheet

Also you can automatically import result of your Typeform to Google Sheet

Open it from your Workspace, then click on Connect. Now you can see our integrations, so click on Connect in the Send responses to Google Sheets box.

To integrate Mailchimp to your Sheet2Site website you need to get the Mailchimp subscribe url.

Open your Mailchimp account
Lists -> Select a list (or create a new list)
Signup forms
Find copy/paste onto your site (code snippet). It should looks like this:

Find the url in form action tag
Copy the link (without quotes). Looks like this:
https://whentosurf.us15.list-manage.com/subscribe/post?u=b9909498bfcf0094d3b867d70&id=58a5b633c3`
Paste it to your Google Sheet -> settings tab -> Call to action button Link:

Chat

Register in Crisp Chat
Create a website
Open settings page
Choose your website
Setup instruction
Copy Website ID
Open your Google Sheet. Main-tab page.
Paste to Crisp Chat ID

You can use their iOS and Android mobile apps to stay in touch with your users

Map

You can add an embedded map to the bottom of you page with all the items

To add a map please go to the map tab in your Google Sheet and switch state to ON .

Maps settings:

Zoom Level - how close you want to show your map from 1 to 15, where 15 is the maximum zoom
Map center Long - your maps longitude cordinates
Map center Lat - your maps lattiture cordinates

Disqus

Now you can add a commets to each of your sub pages using Disqus The internet's favorite comment plug-in that makes it easy to make a comment section. So will be able to create a discussions, efficiently moderate comments, and build engaged community.

Let's say you are yu have a website with list of apps. Each app have its own sub page. And each sub page have a comment section in the bottom.

How to add Disqus to your website?

Register in Disqus
Add your website
Get the code snippet. It should looks like this:


<div id="disqus_thread"></div>
<script>
var disqus_config = function () {
this.page.url = PAGE_URL; // Replace PAGE_URL with your page's canonical URL variable
this.page.identifier = PAGE_IDENTIFIER; // Replace PAGE_IDENTIFIER with your page's unique identifier variable
};
(function() { // DON'T EDIT BELOW THIS LINE
var d = document, s = d.createElement('script');
s.src = 'https://menubar-co.disqus.com/embed.js';
s.setAttribute('data-timestamp', +new Date());
(d.head || d.body).appendChild(s);
})();
</script>
<noscript>Please enable JavaScript to view the <a href="https://disqus.com/?ref_noscript">comments powered by Disqus.</a></noscript>

We do not need this all code. We just need the source url. It's located in s.src =.It should look liks this https://menubar-co.disqus.com/embed.js
Put this url in to Settings tab to Disqus URL

Examples:

Home page: example.com

Subpage with comments: example.com/sub-page

Google Sheet: docs.google.com/spreadsheets

Google Analytics

To be able to aconnect Google Analytics to your website you need to setup a property and get a Get Tracking ID. Please check official documentation .

Tracking ID should looks like this: UA-51392658-9

After you get it please open your Sheet, settings tab and paste your Tracking ID to Google Analytics ID

To check if it's working open "Realtime" -> "Overview" and visit your website. You should see at least 1 visitor:

Links tracking

Sheet2Site allows you to see the stat of most clicked links from your website via Google Analytics.

After you setup Google Analytics open your website and click on some of your links (maybe 10-20).

How to check outgoing links:

Behavior
Events
Pages
Change the date that incuded today in the date picker (top right corner) to make sure that data is included:

Select home page / in the table
Outgoing Link:

You should see all links that users clicked:

Data should updated in a couple of mins or less. You should see in your GA dashboard of links where clicks were performed.

Amazon Affiliate

With Sheet2Site you can build Amazon Affiliate Websites. You can read more about Amazon Affiliate Program .

You can start with Business Template , but it's up to you what template will be better for you idea.

You need to find a niche of goods that you would like to sell. Let's say you want to sell books.

Example: thebooksbywomen.com

After you added all the books to content tab including: Name, Author, Image, Genre, Link

The link of a book should have your tag like: https://www.amazon.com/Yes-Please-Amy-Poehler/dp/006226835X/?tag=kalinasapps02-20/?tag=kalinasapps02-20

And finally you need to add your Amazon Affiliate ID to the settings tab that looks like this: 3e0ebe95-36bb-4b10-9a0c-e9c442d4d19

Troubleshooting

Here are some tips how you can troubleshoot your website in different situations:

I accidentally messed-up my website

No problem. You can restore your website from the version history

Javascript

You can add Javascript scripts to your website. It could be pretty useful to extend standart functionallity. For example:

Sharing buttons - to make visitors share your website in social media.
Discourse - allows users write comments on your website
Intercom - Live chat to talk to your users and send campaigns.
Facebook Pixel - snippet of JavaScript code that allows you to track visitor activity on your website. Could be usefull if you are running facebook ads.
Mailchimp pop-up window - if subscribe form in header is not enought you can add a pop-up that can be triggered when user spend on your website X seconds.
and much more...

How to add Javascripts to your website

Open your Google Sheet
Advanced tab
Javascript Script

Javascript example (shareing buttons):

You have a possibility to choose where you want to add this script:

Before head tag close
Before body tag close

CSS Style

You can add custom css style. This mean that you can customize design of the website for your own neads. Just add style tag inside that custom script cell it will work.

For example let's say that you want to have different header image on mobile (not the same as on desktop)

Or another example might be that you want to have a sticky nav bar that will be attached to the top of the page while you are scrolling:

How to add custom CSS style to your website

Open your Google Sheet
Advanced tab
Custom Javascript (it's using the same cell for styles as for scripts.)

Custom Domain

1. Change DNS Settings

You can connect your Sheet2Site website in 3 different ways:

Connect as a Root domain
Connect as a Subdomain
Embed to your existing website

Here are some instructions how to change DNS settings:

1.1 - Connect as a root domain

Please one choose that you like more:

As naked domain: example.com
As www domain: www.example.com

As naked domain:

To connect example.com please add this DNS record:

Type	Host	Value	TTL
CNAME Record	`@`	`sheet2sitedns.com`	Automatic

Notes:

If you can't add @ value to CNAME Record try do this:

Pease make sure that there is not existing A Record with @

. If such record is exist please remove it and try again. This should works for GoDaddy.

Try to use you full website name


example.com

If it still didn't work, please connect your domain as www

If you are using


Cloudflare

to manage your DNS, please switch from


Proxied


DNS only

for all Sheet2Site CNAME records:

As www domain:

If you already added naked domain records records, please ignore this step.

To connect www.example.com please add this DNS record:

Type	Host	Value	TTL
CNAME Record	`www`	`sheet2sitedns.com`	Automatic

1.2 Redirects

No matter what you will choose, the vistiros of your webiste will be redirect from www to naked and vise versa, so you will get all the visitors. Example:


example.com


www.example.com


example.com

You need to add this DNS record:

Type	Host	Value	TTL
CNAME Record	`www`	`@`	Automatic

Alterenativly if you can't add @ you can setup a redirect you can setup it in your domain provider. Here are some instructions:

1.3 - Connect as a Subdomain

You can connect your subdomain domain jobs.example.com to your sheet2site website in 2 different ways:

Please one choose that you like more:

As naked domain: jobs.example.com
As www domain: www.jobs.example.com

As naked subdomain:

To connect jobs.example.com please add these 2 records:

Type	Host	Value	TTL
CNAME Record	`jobs`	`sheet2sitedns.com`	Automatic
CNAME Record	`www.jobs`	`jobs`	Automatic

As www subdomain:

If you already added naked subdomain records records, please ignore this step.

To connect www.jobs.example.com please add these 2 records:

Type	Host	Value	TTL
CNAME Record	`www.jobs`	`sheet2sitedns.com`	Automatic
CNAME Record	`jobs`	`www.jobs`	Automatic

1.4 - Embed to your existing website

If you already have a website and want to embed your spreadsheet data in a visual way you can easily do it by adding a code snippet

Sheet2Site Embed support all major website builders such as Squrespace, Wix, WordPress, Weebly. It aslo support custom website build with code.

It will keep your logo, navigation bar footer. It will be on a separete page like: example.com/directory

You can embed your Sheet2Site page to your existing website with Sheet2Site Embed .

1.4 Check Your DNS

To check if you added DNS settings correctly please enter your domain (without http or https)

3. FAQ

3.1 How long does it take?

Connecting custom domain may take up to 24h but usually faster. Please be patient. I will message you after domain will be connected.

Please send me a screenshot once you are finished.

3.2 Do I need to buy custom domain?

Yes, you do. You can register domains on namecheap or on anyother domain provider.

.com domains are generally cheap and cost like $11 / year.

3.2 I have already an existing website on my own domain

You can embed it to your existing websitesite with Sheet2Site Embed .

Alterenativly, you can connect your subdomain like jobs.example.com and you can still keep your current home page example.com that will work independently or you can embed sheet2site into your page using code snippet.

Stripe

How to connect Stripe to your Sheet2Site website

To be able to use Stripe you need to have a Stripe account and create a Google Form first, so you can get user's email and additional information that you need.

Just to let you know that the form response will be saved only if the payment will be successful, in other words if the users cancelled the payment, the data that he entered in the form will not be saved in the form as a response (and Google Sheet), but you will be able to see this data in your Stripe cancelled transactions as meta data.

Please follow these steps to connect Stripe to your website:

Create a Google Form , connect it to your website and save the Google Form link.
Link should looks like this (for edit Google Form not for preview it): https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1Hz4i_ie_0rxkIqPsRvOm4iDxprQdmvmcwlc193wXm-s/ edit

Do not use these links:
- Short links: https://forms.gle/oyhMhCefmsZJGYNNGA
- Preview links: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSexQk1x0Tte2J_-mkEH-yqalmdLnMlAH68NogNLTGWx3gkHUQ/ viewform

Create Stripe Publishable Key and Secret Key .
Define price and currency, for example 99 USD.

Text Formatting

To make your content look better, you can format it with basic HTML Syntax. You can add titles, lists, images, links and more by inserting these HTML tags in your Google Sheet, which will be displayed on your website.

For example let's say that you want to format your vacancy description:

You can add this code snippen to your decription:

<div>
    <h3>We would like to hear from you if you have...</h3>
    <ul>
        <li>A deep understanding of Agile frameworks and Lean principles, at the level of the principles and values,
            to enable appropriate application as well as innovation</li>
        <li>A strong ability to understand complex systems, relentlessly managing the technical and business risk
            landscape, anticipating and mitigating emerging issues </li>
        <li>Experience facilitating and leading continual planning processes in a complex and exciting environment
        </li>
        <li>Proven experience on achieving goals and hitting deadlines, based on company-wide objectives, regardless
            of the obstacles</li>
        <li>An ability to facilitate, catalyse and lead organisational change and transformation, drawing on change
            management, organisation culture, organisation development and systems thinking</li>
        <li>A high level of emotional intelligence, excellent communication skills, ability to listen with empathy
            and enable people to act by increasing insight</li>
        <li>You’re excited to be part of the vibrant Delivery Community at Improbable, challenging and improving
            processes to increase the effectiveness of a team or division.</li>
    </ul>
</div>

Import JSON

A lot of good structured data is available through APIs like weather, ratings, currency rates and many more. APIs give you this data in JSON format and now it's possible to import JSON data directly into Google Sheet.

To be able to do it you need a custom function that called ImportJSON

Open your Google Sheet -> Tools -> Script Editor
Rename it to ImportJson.gs
Delete the placeholder content
Copy this script
Paste to your script and save it (click save icon)

Go back to your sheet and try to call the function from your cell:
=ImportJSON("http://date.jsontest.com", "/date", "noInherit, noTruncate")

You should see something like this:

More information how to use it here . Thanks to @bradjasper who created it.

Embed

If you already have a website and want to embed your spreadsheet data in a visual way you can easily do it by adding a code snippet

Sheet2Site Embed support all major website builders such as Squrespace, Wix, WordPress, Weebly. It aslo support custom website build with code.

It will keep your logo, navigation bar footer. It will be on a separete page like: yourwebsite.com/directory

How to embed Sheet2Site to your webiste?

Here is how you can create your own embed site with your own data:

Sheet2Site Google Sheet add-on must be installed Install
Template must be created
Menu Add-ons -> Sheet2Site -> Embed in your website

Copy code snippet

Paste it into your website builder as embedded code. Let me know if you need any help.

Payments

The best way to know if people like your product is they're actually pay for it. Here are some ways how you can charge your clinets. You can add them as call to action button link.

PayPal

PayPal button is probably the easiest way to get money. You can create a simple link with your name and the amount of money. Example: https://www.paypal.me/andreyazimovpay/9.99usd .

To create such a link open PayPal.me and follow the instructions

Gumroad

Gumroad is great payment systems for creators. You can charge your clients for single time payment products or with reccurent payments. Each product will have a special like like https://gumroad.com/l/awesomejobboard

With Gumroad you can withdraw money to PayPal.

To start using Gumroad please register there and add a product and a price.

Please read their official documentation about getting paid and other details.