n8n Intermediate: Real Business Workflows
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For anyone who has built a first n8n workflow and wants ones the business can rely on. You will read and update Google Sheets, send a report on a schedule, call any app with the HTTP Request node, catch forms with webhooks, let AI read receipts and draft emails with a person approving, and finish with error alerts and retries so nothing fails quietly.
Work through them in order: each step builds on the one before it, and every module runs in a practice copy of n8n and Webhook.site right in your browser. It is free, and no experience is needed.
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The path: 10 steps
- Step 1: n8n: Read, Add and Update Google Sheets Rows with an AI Step✓ Done Intermediate
Learn n8n's three core Google Sheets moves on a made-up request list: read the rows, add a new one without duplicates, then let an AI step write a description and update each row.
Free · about 12 minutes · Next up: Get Your Daily Revenue Total by Email, Automatically, using n8n
- Step 2: Get Your Daily Revenue Total by Email, Automatically, using n8n✓ Done Intermediate
Stop spending 20 minutes every evening adding up the day by hand. In n8n, a Schedule Trigger runs at 5pm, Google Sheets pulls today's jobs, Summarize totals the revenue and Gmail emails it to you.
Free · about 9 minutes · Next up: n8n: Call Any API with the HTTP Request Node
- Step 3: n8n: Call Any API with the HTTP Request Node✓ Done Intermediate
Connect n8n to any app with an API: GET a CRM's client list, filter it with a query parameter, then POST a note back using an expression. Free practice API, no key needed.
Free · about 9 minutes · Next up: What Is a Webhook? Send a Test and Watch the Data Arrive
- Step 4: What Is a Webhook? Send a Test and Watch the Data Arrive✓ Done Intermediate
Point a plumber's website contact form at a free webhook tester, send a test and a real message, and watch the data arrive the moment it's sent.
Free · about 6 minutes · Next up: Webhooks and Forms in n8n: Capture Data from Anywhere
- Step 5: Webhooks and Forms in n8n: Capture Data from Anywhere✓ Done Intermediate
Stop losing quote requests between inboxes. Build a form n8n hosts for you, catch entries from your own website with a webhook, and save every request to one Google Sheet.
Free · about 12 minutes · Next up: AI Receipt Extractor: Receipts to Google Sheets with n8n
- Step 6: AI Receipt Extractor: Receipts to Google Sheets with n8n✓ Done Intermediate
Drop a photo of a receipt into an n8n chat. An AI agent reads it, pulls out the date, vendor and amount, picks a category, and adds a row to Google Sheets.
Free · about 12 minutes · Watch the video · Next up: n8n AI Email Responder: Draft Gmail Replies Automatically
- Step 7: n8n AI Email Responder: Draft Gmail Replies Automatically✓ Done Intermediate
Build an n8n agent that watches your Gmail, reads each new customer email, and writes a reply as a draft in the same thread, ready for you to check and send.
Free · about 12 minutes · Next up: n8n: Weekly Client Status Emails from a Google Sheet, Written by AI
- Step 8: n8n: Weekly Client Status Emails from a Google Sheet, Written by AI✓ Done Intermediate
Build an n8n workflow that wakes up every Monday, reads your client tracker in Google Sheets, has AI write a friendly update for each client and saves it as a Gmail draft.
Free · about 14 minutes · Next up: n8n AI Agent Tutorial: Save Social Media Ideas to Google Sheets
- Step 9: n8n AI Agent Tutorial: Save Social Media Ideas to Google Sheets✓ Done Intermediate
Build an AI agent for BrightPath Marketing that generates social media post ideas and saves them to Google Sheets — chat trigger, AI Agent, system prompt, model, memory, and the Sheets tool.
Free · about 12 minutes · Watch the video · Next up: Get Alerted When an n8n Automation Fails, and Let It Retry by Itself
- Step 10: Get Alerted When an n8n Automation Fails, and Let It Retry by Itself✓ Done Intermediate
A silent failure means a stale price sheet and wrong quotes. In n8n, build an error workflow that emails you, make a flaky step retry by itself, send its failures down an Error output, and retry a failed run from…
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How every module works
Each step is shown on the left, with a cursor pointing to exactly where to click. You do the same thing on the right, in a practice copy of the real tool. Get it right and it moves on. Nothing touches your real accounts until you're ready to build it for real.
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