Connect Google Sheets with DotSimple - Schedule posts (via Make.com)

Social media automation made easy: In this article, I'll show you how to work with Make.com (formerly Integromat) automates content from Google Sheets in DotSimple publish. The advantage: Make offers you a visual scenario board that gives you maximum control and overview of your workflow.

Would you prefer to see the process in action? No problem! In this video, we show you step by step how to automatically connect DotSimple with Google Sheets - whether with Zapier or Make.com.

▶️ Tip: The video visually guides you through both variants - including setup, image upload and planned publication.

📋 Requirements: What you need

Before we start, make sure you have the following:

• A Google account with access to Google Sheets
• A DotSimple Account with access token & workspace ID
• One Make.com account

🗂️ Step 1: Prepare your Google Sheet

Create a new Google Sheet with these three columns:

• Text: The content of your social media post
• Image link: Direct link to a publicly accessible image
• Date: Publication date in format YYYY-MM-DD

Note: Make sure that the image link is publicly accessible. The image will be downloaded later via HTTP module.

⚙️ Step 2: Create scenario in Make.com

1. Create scenario:
   Log in to make.com and create a new scenario.

2. Module 1 - Google Sheets:
   Module: Watch new rows
   → Select your spreadsheet and tab (e.g. "Sheet1")
   → Activate the "Headers available" option
   → Optional: Set a limit or only start from a certain line number

3. Module 2 - HTTP:
   Module: Get a file
   → Use the image URL from the Google Sheet to download the image file

4. Module 3 - DotSimple file upload:
   Module: Upload a File
   → Log in to your DotSimple app, go to Settings → Access tokenclick on "Create new token", copy the token and enter it in Zapier.
   → The Workspace ID can be found in the address bar of your browser - it is located directly after /app/ in the URL (e.g. https://app.dotsimple.io/app/abc12345-def...) - simply copy this ID and paste it into Make.com to log in.
   → Use the download output from the HTTP module

5. Module 4 - Create DotSimple Post:
   Module: Create Post
   → Set the following fields:

   • Date: from the sheet + fixed time (e.g. 12:00)
   • Schedule: Yes
   • IsOriginal: Yes
   • Body: Content from Google Sheet
   • Media: Use the file ID from the previous upload module
   • Platform: z.e.g. LinkedIn page or Instagram

✔️ Test now: Click on "Run Once" to check the workflow. As soon as all modules are displayed in green, your automation has worked!

📈 Result: Fully automated publication directly from the spreadsheet

Activate the scenario and every new row in the Google Sheet is automatically processed in Make and stored directly in DotSimple as a scheduled post - including image and publication time. You only need to maintain the sheet, everything else runs in the background!

💡 Additional tips for your workflow

• Use the field limitto test the performance (e.g. 2 lines per run)
• Add further fields, e.g. hashtags, platform selection or target group
• Create different make scenarios for different formats or channels

🧠 Conclusion: Make.com + DotSimple = flexibility & control

With Make.com, you get a powerful automation workflow for your social media content - completely visual, flexible and expandable at will. Take advantage of Google Sheets as an editorial data source and DotSimple as a smart publishing platform.

👉 Discover DotSimple now or Book a free demo and revolutionize your everyday social media life!