Automate Timesheet to Invoice Conversion with OpenAI, Gmail & Google Workspace — n8n 工作流

复杂度 触发器40 个节点🏷️ Invoice Processing作者:DIGITAL BIZ TECH

概览

This workflow converts emailed timesheets into structured invoice rows in Google Sheets and stores them in the correct Google Drive folder structure.

It:

Listens to Gmail for timesheet attachments
Runs OCR and AI parsing
Looks up Customer and PO data from a Google Sheet
Organizes files in Client → Employee → Year folders
Reuses an existing invoice sheet or creates a new one and writes the invoice row

Quick Implementation Steps

Import the workflow JSON into your n8n instance.
Set

使用的节点

Google SheetsHTTP RequestGoogle DriveCodeOpenAI

工作流预览

OCR extraction
Sends each attachment to the OCR API and returns plain
Build invoice dates
Calculates the invoice date and due date using the time
create new year folder
Create invoice sheet
Generates the sheet name, creates a new Google Sheet, u
Write invoice row
Initializes the row structure, maps customer and timesh
Decide reuse or create sheet
Checks the merged search results. If a matching sheet e
Email intake and loop
Listens to Gmail for unread timesheet emails, splits al
Timesheet to Invoice Automation
How it works
The workflow automates converting emailed timesheets in
1. Email intake
Pulls unread Gmail messages with timesheet att
Customer and PO lookup
Looks up the sender in the Customer POs sheet and pulls
AI timesheet parsing
OpenAI reads the timesheet text and extracts employee n
Client folder discovery
Search Client Invoices folder, finds or creates the cli
## File naming and search
searches Drive for existing sheets with the employee a
Create new
create new client name, employee and year named folder
Build file names and search
Generates start based and end based file names from emp
Create invoice sheet
Generates the sheet name, creates a new Google Sheet, u
Write invoice row
append invoice rows
For new sheets, creates the sheet, sets timezone, moves
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Gmail Trigger
Split Binary Attachments
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Loop: Process Each Attac…
Extract Timesheet Data (…
Get Customer Info From P…
S
Set Invoice Date & Due D…
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Generate Sheet Name (Emp…
S
Set: Invoice Range
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If: File Already Exists?
If: Invoice Range is 15…
S
Set: File Name from Star…
Merge: Combine Folder S…
Create New Sheet
Move Created Sheet to Fi…
Set: Row Data
Sheets: Append Row
Sheets: Final Append
Sheets: Create Sheet
Sheets: Append Row1
Extract Text from Attach…
Search: Client Invoices …
Search: Client Folder by…
Search: File By Start Da…
Search: File By End Date…
Drive: Move Sheet To Fin…
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Set: Empty Row Structure
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Set: Spreadsheet (ID & …
Append: Final Row to Exi…
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Check if Year Folder Exi…
Create Client Name Folder
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Check Client Name Folder
Search: Employee Name Fo…
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Check Employee Name Folder
Create Employee Name Fol…
Search: Year Folder
Create Year Folder
Create Current Year Folder
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Set Timesheet JSON Fields
HTTP Request(new sheet)
HTTP Request1(create she…
40 nodes46 edges

工作原理

  1. 1

    触发器

    工作流由 触发器 触发器启动。

  2. 2

    处理

    数据流经 40 个节点, connecting code, gmailtrigger, googledrive。

  3. 3

    输出

    工作流完成自动化并将结果发送到配置的目标。

节点详情 (40)

GO

Google Sheets

googleSheets

#1
HT

HTTP Request

httpRequest

#2
GO

Google Drive

googleDrive

#3
CO

Code

code

#4
OP

OpenAI

n8n-nodes-langchain.openAi

#5

如何导入此工作流

  1. 1点击右侧 下载 JSON 按钮保存工作流文件。
  2. 2打开你的 n8n 实例,依次点击 工作流 → 新建 → 从文件导入
  3. 3选择下载的 automate-timesheet-to-invoice-conversion-with-openai-gmail-google-workspace 文件并点击导入。
  4. 4为每个服务节点配置 凭证(API 密钥、OAuth 等)。
  5. 5点击 测试工作流 验证一切正常,然后激活它。

或直接在 n8n → 从 JSON 导入 中粘贴:

{ "name": "Automate Timesheet to Invoice Conversion with OpenAI, Gmail & Google Workspace", "nodes": [...], ...}

集成

codegmailtriggergoogledrivegooglesheetshttprequestifmergeopenaisetsplitinbatches

获取此工作流

一键下载并导入

下载 JSON在 n8n.io 上查看
节点40
复杂度high
触发器trigger

创建者

DIGITAL BIZ TECH

DIGITAL BIZ TECH

@dbt

标签

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