# n8n Intermediate: Real Business Workflows > Past your first workflow: sheets, schedules, any API, webhooks, AI steps people approve, and error alerts. n8n, and more. Source: https://learn.ynteractive.com/content/paths/n8n-intermediate · Updated 2026-10-18 · Free from Stepthrough (https://learn.ynteractive.com) Updated October 18, 2026 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. Intermediate 10 modules about 108 minutes Free [Start the path free](https://learn.ynteractive.com/modules/n8n-google-sheets-read-append-update) ## The path: 10 steps 1. [**Step 1: n8n: Read, Add and Update Google Sheets Rows with an AI Step**](https://learn.ynteractive.com/content/n8n-google-sheets-read-append-update)✓ 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](https://learn.ynteractive.com/content/n8n-schedule-trigger-google-sheets-daily-report) 2. [**Step 2: Get Your Daily Revenue Total by Email, Automatically, using n8n**](https://learn.ynteractive.com/content/n8n-schedule-trigger-google-sheets-daily-report)✓ 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](https://learn.ynteractive.com/content/n8n-http-request-node-call-any-api) 3. [**Step 3: n8n: Call Any API with the HTTP Request Node**](https://learn.ynteractive.com/content/n8n-http-request-node-call-any-api)✓ 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](https://learn.ynteractive.com/content/what-is-a-webhook) 4. [**Step 4: What Is a Webhook? Send a Test and Watch the Data Arrive**](https://learn.ynteractive.com/content/what-is-a-webhook)✓ 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](https://learn.ynteractive.com/content/n8n-webhook-and-form-trigger-tutorial) 5. [**Step 5: Webhooks and Forms in n8n: Capture Data from Anywhere**](https://learn.ynteractive.com/content/n8n-webhook-and-form-trigger-tutorial)✓ 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](https://learn.ynteractive.com/content/ai-receipt-extractor-n8n-google-sheets) 6. [**Step 6: AI Receipt Extractor: Receipts to Google Sheets with n8n**](https://learn.ynteractive.com/content/ai-receipt-extractor-n8n-google-sheets)✓ 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](https://learn.ynteractive.com/content/ai-receipt-extractor-n8n-google-sheets#watch) · Next up: [n8n AI Email Responder: Draft Gmail Replies Automatically](https://learn.ynteractive.com/content/ai-email-responder-gmail-drafts-n8n) 7. [**Step 7: n8n AI Email Responder: Draft Gmail Replies Automatically**](https://learn.ynteractive.com/content/ai-email-responder-gmail-drafts-n8n)✓ 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](https://learn.ynteractive.com/content/weekly-client-status-email-google-sheets-ai-n8n) 8. [**Step 8: n8n: Weekly Client Status Emails from a Google Sheet, Written by AI**](https://learn.ynteractive.com/content/weekly-client-status-email-google-sheets-ai-n8n)✓ 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](https://learn.ynteractive.com/content/n8n-ai-agent-tutorial-google-sheets) 9. [**Step 9: n8n AI Agent Tutorial: Save Social Media Ideas to Google Sheets**](https://learn.ynteractive.com/content/n8n-ai-agent-tutorial-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](https://learn.ynteractive.com/content/n8n-ai-agent-tutorial-google-sheets#watch) · Next up: [Get Alerted When an n8n Automation Fails, and Let It Retry by Itself](https://learn.ynteractive.com/content/n8n-error-handling-retry-on-fail-error-workflow) 10. [**Step 10: Get Alerted When an n8n Automation Fails, and Let It Retry by Itself**](https://learn.ynteractive.com/content/n8n-error-handling-retry-on-fail-error-workflow)✓ Done Intermediate A silent failure means a stale price sheet and wrong quotes. 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