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Understanding Tiller's Google Sheets add-ons

Learn more about using Google Sheets add-ons with Tiller

Heather Phillips avatar
Written by Heather Phillips
Updated over a week ago

What is a Google Sheets add-on?

Think of add-ons as plugins for your Google Sheets. They allow you to automate workflows and processes, making your work in Google Sheets faster, easier, and more efficient. 

What are Tiller's Google Sheets add-ons?

Tiller has two primary add-ons for leveraging the power of an automated financial data feed to Google Sheets. 

Tiller Money Feeds add-on

Tiller Money Feeds is a Google Sheets add-on, which can be installed and found from the Extensions menu in your Google Sheet.

For many of Tiller's customers Tiller Money Feeds was required as the primary connector between Tiller and your Google Sheet, allowing you to fill transaction and balance data. From August 2019 to December 2025 this was the only way to fill bank data into a Google Sheet.

In December 2025 Tiller released a new more automatic and reliable way to fill data into Google Sheets. This change means that for some customers Google Sheets do not require the Tiller Money Feeds add-on in order to fill data, but Tiller Money Feeds is still useful if you want to use the features and other tools available in the sidebar, such as adding manual transactions, splitting transactions, or running AutoCat in the same view as your data.

Tiller Community Solutions add-on

The Community Solutions add-on offers community-built solutions to common financial riddles like tracking your net worth and many other niche solutions. It allows us to deliver these experimental solutions using a modular approach (e.g. you can drop in a net worth tracking sheet into your Foundation template and not need to create a brand new Google Sheet to give it a try).

Solutions installed via the Tiller Community Solutions add-on are supported by the Tiller Community. You can learn more about the add-on and the included solutions here

The Tiller Community Solutions add-on also offers other tools and reports for better financial analysis in spreadsheets. Including manually reconciling transactions, building category line item details reports, importing CSVs and more. 

Why are these add-ons separate?

Our add-on "ecosystem" has evolved as Tiller's product offering has evolved since 2015. There are many pros and cons to building the functionality that spans these add-ons into a single add-on, and the technology that powers these add-ons is still relatively new, so as we learn we refine. 

We may consolidate the features of some of our add-ons into some of the others and eliminate some entirely.

NOTE: If you're an existing customer that subscribed prior to August 26, 2019 and want to start fresh in a new Google Sheet review our Guide to Transitioning from a Feed Bot sheet to a Tiller Money Feeds sheet

Can I use these add-ons if I have Advanced Protection turned on for my Google Account?

You can use the Tiller Money Feeds add-on if you have Advanced Protection turned on because the scopes required are more limited than some of the other add-ons. You will not be able to install the Tiller Community Solutions add-on if you have Advanced Protection turned on. A workaround is to use a separate Google Account that does not have Advanced Protection turned on to install these add-ons and run them in your Tiller powered Google Sheets through that account. 

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