EmailShot vs Docs Creator - Mail merge for Google Sheets™

Merge sheet data to docs! Easy transition from Microsoft Office to Google Workspace™: Docs Creator offers all the features you were used to from Microsoft Word Mail Merge and Excel. The popular Docs Creator Add-on generates mail merge letters, envelopes, labels based on Google Docs™ templates and Google Sheets™ data. Merge documents and automatically exports serial letters in Google Docs™ or PDF format and saves the merged files directly in Google Drive™. The perfect tool e.g. for personalized letters or customized advertising mailings - printed or directly sent as email attachment! 👇 Read more about our features, help, tutorials and pricing: 🔎 FEATURES - Automatic creation of form letters in Google Docs™ and PDF format - Use individual re-usable templates based on Google Docs™ - Add-on can be used with mail merge data from any Google Sheets™ - Inserts text, links, images and diagrams automatically - The label feature can also be used to insert multiple data sets per template - A print function creates all merged letters in one document and enables easy, collective printing - Generate templated documents directly to Google Drive™ - Sharing or sending mail merge letters as e-mail attachments including personalized email texts - Automatic creation of documents based on Google Forms™ submissions and auto responses via email directly after form submitting. - Auto response PDF generation based on Google Forms™ answers. - Automate your document creation workflow by scheduled document creation based on job feature! 💡 USE CASES - Sales: Customized sales letters, quotes, invoices, contracts, envelopes - HR: Individual salary statements, personnel information, evaluations, checklists for new employees, documents with employee master data - Marketing: Personalized advertising mailings, invitations to customer events, bulk letter, address labels - Logistics: Automated packing lists, labels with QR codes/barcodes, generate docs in envelope, delivery notes - Education: Personal certificates, diplomas, assessments, references, ...and much more! - Support: Handle Google Form™ responses automatically and send auto generated documents to your users and customers via chat™ or e-mail. 🎯 QUICK START 1. Open the add-on via Extensions > Docs Creator > Start and job overview 2. Click on the “Create”-button to create a new job 3. Then assign a job name and define if the job should run on demand or periodically 4. Select the relevant sheet with your mail merge data to doc 5. [Optional] Via the “Filter Settings” you can define a condition based rule to filter your data records if necessary 6. In the “Action Settings”, first select your Google Docs™ template. In this template you can use column headers surrounded by %-characters from your selected sheet as placeholders. Example of a placeholder (merge field): %Name% 7. Then you specify the merge method: separate documents or one document for easy printing 8. Click on the “Save”-button, the created job is now listed in the “Job Overview” 9. Start the document merge by clicking on the “►”-button! 📖 DOCUMENTATION A comprehensive description of all functions can be found in the detailed user manual: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1MSIMmHLb2SnMLQHLHTuoRgL_SkbRY6X-mUY96B21osU/ 🗨️ LANGUAGES - German - English 💳 PRICING - Free: Basic version - install and test now for free! - Plus: Single license with full range of functions, no limitations and priority support for €50/year - Business: Discounted license packages for companies including business support from €15 per user/year A comparison of all features and prices of all license versions can be found under the following link: https://apps-experts.de/en/google-apps-addons/mail-merge-for-letters-google-docs-creator/ 🆘 HELP & SUPPORT We provide both a quick start guide and a detailed user manual. If you have any questions or problems, you can also contact our support team at any time. For more information please check our support center: https://apps-experts.de/en/overview-add-on-help-and-support/ ⭐️ FEEDBACK We hope that you are satisfied with our Doc Creator add-on! Your feedback is very important and it would be great if you left a rating here on the Google Workspace Marketplace: 5 stars means you would recommend our add-on! However, if you have any criticisms, suggestions for improvement or questions, please contact us directly via our contact form: https://apps-experts.de/en/contact/. We will process your request immediately! 💁‍♂️ OUR OTHER ADD-ONS apps experts has developed other useful Google Workspace™ add-ons for you: - E-Invoice Creator - View and Generate E-Invoices with Google Sheets™ - Slides Creator - Create customized presentations with variable content from Sheets data - Forms Dynamic Fields - Auto-Populate options of Google Forms™ questions from various data sources - Sheets Alerts & Notifications - Monitor & track your data in Google Sheets™ Docs Creator is a popular Google Docs document merge and classic mail merge add-on available in the Google Workspace Marketplace and an alternative to add-ons like Autocrat by New Visions Cloudlab, Publigo document merge by Scriptit, Document Studio by Digital Inspiration, Merge Factory by PCAdd-ons, Foxy Labels - Label Maker for Avery & Co and Avery Label Merge by Quicklution. Some add-on features are only available with a Plus/Business license of the Docs Creator add-on. By using the free Basic version of the add-on you can create up to 10 Google Docs™ documents at once at a maximum of 150 documents per month. By using one of our unlimited paid licenses you can also filter your datasets based on conditions, create documents in PDF format and sent them directly via e-mail. Google Chat™, Google Slides™, Google Docs™, Google Forms™, Google Drive™ and Gmail™ are trademarks of Google LLC.

With EmailShot you can share a direct link to any email with anyone you’d like — even if they don’t use GMail™ — in just one click. They’ll see the content on a nicely formatted single page. Save endless cutting & pasting, making screenshots or gathering the email addresses of the people that you want to forward any email to. EmailShot for GMail™ enables you to safely share any email in your inbox with a simple link, so that you can share it in documents, spreadsheets and messaging applications like WhatsApp, Slack or Google Chat™. EmailShot re-creates the screenshot experience for email, so that you can share it with others with just 1 click! And for free! ➢ Benefits: → Save and share emails in just one click → Including images and attachments (pdf, zip, rar, …) → Secure and safe links ➢ A few use cases: → Attach any email to your CRM, support or bug tracking system, like Jira → Upload expense receipts → Test your email marketing campaigns → Save a copy of emails sent with any mail merge tool to send bulk email → Organize your trip by exporting booking and ticket emails to Notion or Wiki platform → Email backup and recovery → Share newsletters, allowing others to preview them before subscribing ➢ Features coming soon: →Protect shared emails with a password →GA4 Analytics for your EmailShots →Webhook support ➢ Tips & Tricks →Better installed for the whole organization or domain by an admin →Support for Workspace Workflows coming soon! ➢ Feature updates: Apr 13, 2025: Improved performance Apr 19, 2024: EmailShot creation preferences Mar 25, 2024: Performance improvements and bugfixes Feb 20, 2024: Easily attach EmailShots in Google Docs™ from context menu Jan 22, 2024: Configurable redaction of recipient address Dec 28, 2023: Sharing on mobile Nov 21, 2023: Launched configurable expiration and retention times Nov 9, 2023: Performance improvements when creating new EmailShots Oct 5, 2023: Added Smart Chips for Google Sheets™ and Slides™ Sept 6, 2023: Added Smart Chips excerpts for Google Docs™ in beta ➢Success stories: We manage feature requests in GitHub Issues and prioritize them on a Trello board. Larger projects are tracked in Jira for alignment with the development roadmap, while customer-facing updates go into Salesforce. For internal knowledge sharing, we heavily use Confluence. Our HR team stays organized with Factorial or Personio, and they streamline expense reports through Concur. To power our marketing efforts, we've integrated EmailShot.io with Mailchimp and Klaviyo, exploring the possibility of switching fully to EmailShot.io due to its competitive pricing and potential to sync with HubSpot for deeper analytics. We might even use MailMeteor or YAMM alongside EmailShot.io for specific bulk email campaigns.