How to Use Layerre with Google Sheets
Google Sheets is the most common place teams store data for design generation — product lists, content calendars, attendee lists, and campaign copy. Layerre connects to Sheets via Make, Zapier, or n8n to generate a design variant for each row automatically.
What is Google Sheets?
Google Sheets is a cloud-based spreadsheet application that supports real-time collaboration. It's widely used for content planning, data management, and as a lightweight data source for automation workflows. Its native integration with Make, Zapier, and n8n makes it the easiest starting point for design automation.
Use Cases: Google Sheets + Layerre
Spreadsheet data → design variants
Each row in your spreadsheet represents one design variant. Columns map to template fields (headline, image URL, price). Layerre generates one image per row.
Batch certificate generation
Paste a list of names and dates into a Google Sheet. An automation generates a certificate for each row and saves the results to a Google Drive folder.
Daily social media posts
Pre-fill a week of social media copy in a Sheet. A daily automation triggers Layerre to generate that day's social image and save it to the team folder.
E-commerce product images
Export your product catalog to Google Sheets. Layerre processes each row to generate product cards, and a "Status" column tracks which products have been processed.
How It Works
- 1Add your data to a Google Sheet with clear column headers matching your template fields
- 2Import your Canva template into Layerre
- 3Set up an automation (Make, Zapier, or n8n) with Google Sheets as the trigger
- 4Map spreadsheet columns to Layerre template layers
- 5The automation generates an image for each new row and saves the result
Example Workflows
Trigger
New row added to "Certificates" sheet
Action
Layerre generates certificate with name, date, course title
Output
PDF saved to Google Drive; image URL written to column G
Trigger
Daily cron (9 AM) reads today's row from "Social Calendar"
Action
Layerre generates Instagram post and LinkedIn post
Output
Images saved to team Google Drive folder
Trigger
New product row in "Catalog" sheet
Action
Layerre generates product card (1080×1080) and banner (1200×628)
Output
Image URLs written back to sheet columns
Ready-made templates
Start faster with published workflows you can import and adapt:
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