The transfer is the unit that Sheetgo uses to see the consumption of a workflow. A simple automation spreadsheet to spreadsheet will use one transfer. A transfer will be used every time a connection is updated by manually running or scheduling automatic updates.
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​Sheetgo also has many smart features that will stop any unnecessary updates, saving you transfers. For example, activating the check-generated documents, or checking email recipients settings to avoid repeating processes for existing data entries.

You can follow your transfer usage by checking the bar at the bottom of the Sheetgo sidebar. There you can check how many transfers you have already used for the month, your transfers total, and when your transfers are set to renew.

The volume of transfers consumed by each workflow will vary depending on the type of automation and the volume of files. In general, you can count how many transfers a workflow will consume by looking at your workflow. Each arrow counts as an update except for Sheetgo Forms and connections where the Transfer Formatting feature is activated.

After adding your data to a spreadsheet file, connecting this to a Google Docs template to create the individual documents, converting each one into a PDF and then sending to the corresponding recipient would come to a total of just 300 transfers per execution.

After adding your invoice data to a spreadsheet file, connecting this to a Google Docs template to generate the individual invoices, converting each one into PDF and then sending them to the corresponding recipient, you’d use 1,500 transfers per month.

With 500 transfers per month, Mr Yearous monitors stock levels from 27 different locations with a value of $26m worth of stock. After adding the data into Google Sheets, the data is split by location, brought back with stock/non stock, and then back to Google Sheets. This happens 27 times for each supplier. 54 people can edit the workflow and 120 people end up using it, which ultimately affects 600-700 people.

With 1000 transfers per month using the Invoice generator template by Sheetgo, Miss Somer can send over 300 invoices to her clients each month using Sheetgo. After adding invoice data to a spreadsheet, Sheetgo transfers the invoice data for each client into her personalized invoice document template, converts it to PDF, and sends each invoice directly to its recipient via Gmail. For this entire process, she only uses 3 transfers per invoice.