Google Docs integration

Here's what you can do with a Google Docs integration:

• Generate a Doc for every new record – create an app that tracks clients or orders, and Base44 can generate a Doc for each one, such as a proposal, an onboarding doc or an order summary.
• Turn your app's numbers into a written summary – Base44 can build a reporting app that compiles your analytics and exports them as a formatted summary in Google Docs, ready to share.
• Give your team a documentation hub – Base44 can build a hub that puts your app's structured content into Google Docs, so your team comments on it and works on it together there.
• Give a Superagent read-only access – connect a Superagent to Docs with read-only access, so it can read your documents without changing a word.

Any document you write from the same skeleton each time is a candidate. Describe what goes into it and what should trigger it, and build the version that writes the first draft for you.

Setup runs from a short description to a Doc you can open and read:

• Describe the document and its trigger – tell Base44 in chat what the Doc should contain and when it should be made, for example "create a proposal draft when a client is marked as won."
• Connect your Google account – approve access to Docs; Base44 handles the sign-in flow and stores the credentials for you.
• Read the flow before it runs – the automation that writes the Doc comes with a backend function you can review and edit.
• Generate one from sample data – read the result the way a client would before the flow runs for real.
• Approve more access per flow – if a new flow needs permissions you haven't granted yet, you approve them when that flow is built.

Editing, comments and sharing work the way your team is used to, because the files are ordinary Google Docs – the build only writes the first draft and the updates. Think of the document you start by copying last month's version, and describe that one to Base44 first.

With Base44, each quote or project request sent through your site can become a draft Doc, ready for you to review and send. A few things make the drafts worth sending:

• Ask the questions the document needs – the form fields become the content of the draft, so ask for what you'd otherwise chase by email.
• Describe how your documents are laid out – tell Base44 how your proposals are usually structured, so the draft reads like yours.
• Keep a review step – drafts wait for you to check them, so a client only sees the version you approved.

If you don't have a site yet, build a website with the request form and the draft flow together, so the first proposal is waiting the morning after someone asks.