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Afleet Integration

ApproveThis manages your Afleet Integration approvals.

April 17, 2025

Integration Category: Marketing Automation

When approval bottlenecks delay campaigns and ambassador programs stall in email threads, marketing teams lose momentum. This is where combining ApproveThis' approval automation with Afleet's rewards management creates operational clarity. Through Zapier integration, these platforms work together to accelerate campaign launches while maintaining oversight - no more chasing signatures or manual data entry between systems.

Why This Integration Matters

Afleet specializes in scaling customer-led growth through referral programs and ambassador campaigns. But even the best campaigns get stuck in approval limbo - legal needs to review terms, finance verifies budgets, and brand teams sign off on messaging. ApproveThis adds structure to these decision points without creating bureaucracy.

Consider a seasonal referral campaign needing approval from four departments. Without automation:

  • Marketing creates the Afleet campaign draft
  • Coordinator manually emails stakeholders
  • Version control issues emerge as feedback comes via email/Slack
  • Final approval gets delayed by out-of-office approvers

With the integration:

  • Campaign creation in Afleet auto-triggers an ApproveThis request
  • Predefined workflows route to legal, finance, and brand teams
  • Conditional logic escalates stalled requests after 24 hours
  • Approved campaigns automatically activate in Afleet

Team-Specific Benefits

Marketing Operations

Campaign launch cycles shrink from days to hours. When a new ambassador program is drafted in Afleet, ApproveThis automatically:

  • Routes budget approvals to finance based on campaign spend thresholds
  • Sends legal terms to counsel via email (no Afleet license required)
  • Tracks all feedback in one audit trail

Example: A DTC skincare brand uses approval thresholds to auto-approve campaigns under $5k while flagging larger budgets for CFO review. Calculated fields in ApproveThis automatically sum affiliate commissions and product giveaways from Afleet data.

Partner Management

Ambassador onboarding becomes frictionless. When influencers apply via Afleet:

  • ApproveThis triggers contract reviews by legal
  • Approved ambassadors get automatically enrolled with tiered rewards
  • Denied applicants receive templated responses through Afleet

Example: A gaming hardware company approves streamer partnerships in 2 hours instead of 3 days. Vacation delegation ensures substitute approvers handle requests during events like E3.

Finance Teams

Budget oversight improves without becoming a bottleneck. Approval thresholds in ApproveThis:

  • Auto-approve routine campaign spends below set limits
  • Require multi-level approval for exceptions
  • Sync approved budgets back to Afleet campaign details

Key Integration Use Cases

Campaign Launch Accelerator

When a marketing manager creates a new Afleet campaign:

  1. Zapier detects the new campaign draft
  2. ApproveThis launches a parallel approval workflow
  3. Stakeholders receive email/Slack approval requests
  4. Once approved, Afleet automatically activates the campaign

Real-world impact: A mid-sized SaaS company reduced campaign launch time from 5 days to 8 hours, increasing quarterly campaign volume by 40%.

Ambassador Onboarding Flow

For influencer applications:

  1. New ambassador application in Afleet
  2. ApproveThis routes NDA and contract to legal team
  3. Upon approval, Afleet auto-enrolls ambassador with welcome kit
  4. Denied applicants trigger personalized decline sequences

Implementation Guide

Setting up the integration takes under 20 minutes:

  1. Create Zapier account (if none exists)
  2. Connect Afleet and ApproveThis via Zapier integration
  3. Set trigger: "New Campaign Created" in Afleet
  4. Set action: "Create Approval Request" in ApproveThis
  5. Map Afleet campaign details to ApproveThis fields
  6. Test with draft campaign

Pro tip: Use ApproveThis' calculated fields to auto-populate budget impact metrics from Afleet data, giving approvers financial context.

Why This Combo Works

Unlike native Afleet approvals, this integration:

  • Allows external approvers (agencies, clients) without Afleet licenses
  • Supports multi-department approval chains
  • Provides audit trails for compliance

ApproveThis adds missing enterprise-grade controls to Afleet's campaign tools while keeping processes invisible to ambassadors and customers.

Getting Started

Marketing teams using Afleet for referral programs or ambassador management should:

  1. Register for ApproveThis (14-day trial)
  2. Book integration consultation
  3. Clone pre-built Zapier template

For complex use cases like global campaign approvals with multi-currency thresholds, request a custom demo showing locale-specific delegation rules.

The integration works through Zapier - no developer required. Explore Zapier automation possibilities here.

Final Word

Approval delays silently erode marketing ROI - missed launch windows, frustrated ambassadors, and rushed compliance reviews. By connecting Afleet's campaign tools with ApproveThis' workflow engine through Zapier, teams remove friction while maintaining oversight. The result? Faster cycles from concept to revenue without adding bureaucratic bloat.

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Best Approval Workflows for Afleet

Suggested workflows (and their Zapier components) for Afleet

Create approval request for new Afleet campaigns

When a new campaign is created on Afleet, this integration initiates an approval request in ApproveThis to review and authorize the campaign launch. It automatically routes the campaign for approval, streamlining decision workflows.

Zapier Components

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Trigger

New Campaign

Triggers when a new Campaign is created on afleet portal.

Action

Create Request

Creates a new request, probably with input from previous steps.

Enroll ambassadors for new approval requests

When a new approval request is initiated in ApproveThis, this integration enrolls ambassadors on Afleet. This automation ensures that each new approval request triggers a corresponding ambassador enrollment to support coordinated marketing efforts.

Zapier Components

Trigger

New Request

Triggers when a new approval request workflow is initiated.

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Action

Ambassador Enrolled

Action to enroll the ambassadors in a program