Understand the most important n8n nodes grouped by category, and how they’re used in real workflows. By the end of this module, you should be comfortable reading and creating small automations.
Nodes are like building blocks.
Grouping similar nodes helps you learn faster.
We'll use sample workflows for demo purposes.
🎯 Goal - Help users understand:
Manual and Schedule Trigger
IF, Switch, Set, Aggregate, Merge and Summarize Nodes
AI Agent Node (for generating smart replies)
📌 Mini Project: e-Commerce Daily Sales and Fulfillment Report
Scenario: We have a client that want’s to automate their daily sales reporting and fulfillment reporting. This will save them time on manual process and focus on taking action base on the data driven report.
👨🦳 Client: Hi, we have a database that are always updated. But we are manually processing the data into day to day basis to get actionable insights and give the orders that needs to be processed by the warehouse team. Is it something we can automate?
👨💻You as Automation Specialist: Yes, that is doable. First please run me thru to your manual process so I can understand and create an automated process of it using n8n and AI Agent.
👨🦳: Sure let me breakdown the process below.
First we need to pull the data from our data base and we should filter out first cancelled orders. You can use the “item_status” column as reference
After that there will be 2 paths for unshipped and shipped orders.
1st is to get all unshipped orders that are merchant fulfilled (use “fulfillment_channel” column) and send the report to warehouse team. They need the purchase date, merchant order ID, product name, ASIN, address and also put the status so they can change it to “Shipped” once they completed it
2nd is to get shipped orders and populate the Amazon Report Database and the Shopify Report Database. Note that the report database shod be consolidated to sales per product per day.
Amazon Report Database have the ID (with format “date-product” so no duplicate will happen when updating the database), purchase date, ASIN, unit sold and sales
Shopify Report Database is the same with Amazon but do not have the sales data as it is a separate report we are pulling on Shopify (This would be a future project of yours 😁)
After that, the dashboard will automatically reflect graphs base on the populated database. We need an executive summary that will give us quick update and some actionable insights if any. Please send it to stake holders.
By the way, please schedule to run the report every 9am Eastern Time.
👨💻: Wow that was a really good explanation and walkthrough there, wish all my clients is like you! Let me build it….
⏳ a few hours later……
👨💻: The workflow is now ready, we can now try it.
📥 Downloads:
n8nBeginner Course Module 4.1 Daily Report Workflow Free Download (or you can buy me a coffee 😁)
👨🦳: Everything is working fine! Now let me pay you as discussed and I would gladly treat you a coffee! ☕ By the way, let’s discuss your monthly rate to maintain and improve this workflow, plus I have some automation projects here I would like to discuss with you.
🎯 Goal - Help users understand:
Form Trigger
Loop, Wait, Split Out and Output Parser Nodes
AI Agent Node (for generating script)
📌 Mini project: AI Script Generator
Have a form trigger to select the products that needs new scripts and shot list
Feed the previous product, keywords and script as reference
Loop over each product and use wait node to avoid rate limit limitation
use AI with output parser to structure the output in preparation to adding it to Google Sheets record.
Receive an email once the workflow is done
📥 Downloads:
n8n AI Script Generator Free Workflow (or you can buy me a coffee 😊)
🎯 Goal - Help users understand:
HTTP Request , Simple Memory and Tool Nodes
Conversational AI Agent and AI Agent as tool
Basic prompt engineering
📌 Mini project: AI Travel Newsletter Writer & Assistant
Create an AI Agent as Orchestrator
Have multiple AI Agents as Tool
Connect tools to those AI Agent Tools
Use simple memory for conversation
Research trending topics using Tavily API via HTTP node
Look for free photos using Pexel API via HTTP node
Format the newsletter for email sending
📥 Downloads:
n8n AI Travel Assistant & Newsletter Writer (or you can buy me a coffee 😊)
