ApproveThis manages your Affiliatly Integration approvals.

When Your Approval Process Needs a Sidekick

Let's be real - managing affiliate programs feels like herding cats. Between new signups, payout calculations, and updating commission structures, your team's approval process probably looks like a game of broken telephone crossed with a paper chase. That's where pairing Affiliatly's affiliate tracking with ApproveThis' approval automation creates something actually useful.

ApproveThis isn't another tool that "reinvents workflows" or whatever buzzword salad your last vendor served. It's approval management that works how you already do - just without the endless Slack pings and spreadsheet version control. When you connect it to Affiliatly through Zapier, you're essentially giving your affiliate program guardrails that don't slow down the car.

Why This Combo Doesn't Suck

Affiliatly handles the messy work of tracking clicks, conversions, and payouts. ApproveThis handles the even messier work of getting humans to make decisions. Together through Zapier, they:

• Turn affiliate signups into reviewed-and-approved partners in under 5 minutes
• Auto-flag sketchy order changes before they become support tickets
• Make payout approvals as painless as your accounting team thinks they should be

The kicker? Approvers don't need Affiliatly logins. Your external partners or finance team can review requests directly via email without jumping through another app's hoops. No extra seats, no new passwords to forget - just decisions getting made.

Real Uses for Actual Businesses

1. Filtering Affiliate Signups Without the Paperwork

Take an e-commerce company doing $20M/year. Their Affiliatly dashboard gets 50+ new affiliate applications weekly. Previously, marketing managers would:

1. Check each application against internal criteria
2. Forward to legal via email
3. Wait 3-5 days for review
4. Manually update Affiliatly status

Now? When Affiliatly gets a new signup, ApproveThis automatically:

• Routes apps through custom checklists (website review, social following thresholds)
• Sends legal a pre-formatted contract approval
• Updates Affiliatly status based on approval outcome

Result: 80% faster onboarding, zero "Did you get my email?" check-ins.

2. Killing Order Update Roulette

A SaaS company using Affiliatly noticed their support team kept fielding calls about "missing" commissions. Turns out, affiliates were editing order details post-approval to game the system. Now, any Affiliatly order update triggers:

1. Immediate ApproveThis alert to compliance team
2. Side-by-side comparison of original vs. edited order
3. One-click approve/reject with comment requirements

Fraud attempts dropped 62% in first quarter. Support tickets? Down 40%.

3. Payouts That Don't Require Begging Finance

For a beauty brand scaling affiliate partnerships, payout approvals were stuck in accounting limbo. Now when affiliates hit payout thresholds in Affiliatly:

- ApproveThis auto-generates approval packets with:
  • 90-day performance metrics
  • Tax docs
  • Payment method verification
- Routes to correct approver based on amount ($500+ goes to CFO)
- Syncs approved payouts back to Affiliatly

Result: Affiliates get paid in 2 days vs. 14. Churn rate? Cut by a third.

Setting This Up Without Losing Your Mind

If you can make a Zoom call, you can connect these tools. Here's the TL;DR:

1. Create your ApproveThis account (takes 3 minutes)
2. In Zapier, choose Affiliatly as trigger app
3. Pick your trigger event (new affiliate, order edit, etc.)
4. Select ApproveThis as action app
5. Map Affiliatly data to approval request fields
6. Test with live data

Pro tip: Use ApproveThis' calculated fields to auto-flag applications that don't meet minimum traffic requirements or order edits that exceed typical variance.

Who Actually Cares About This?

Marketing Teams

Your affiliate managers stop playing spreadsheet Jenga. New partner approvals happen during their morning coffee instead of over weeks. Plus, auto-archiving rejected applicants means no more "Why haven't we approved this influencer?" meetings.

Finance Departments

Payout approvals come with full context - no more digging through 12 systems to verify numbers. Approval thresholds mean junior staff handle routine payments, escalations auto-route to managers. Audit trails? Automatically generated.

Operations People

Custom workflows adapt to your rules, not the other way around. When your affiliate program adds new bonus structures or geo-specific requirements, update the approval logic once. Vacation delegation means no approvals get stuck because Karen from accounting is at Burning Man.

Why This Isn't Just Another Integration

Most app integrations just move data from A to B. This one actually changes how teams work:

- Approval groups prevent decision paralysis - require 2/3 approvals from a team instead of waiting for everyone
- Email-based approvals mean external partners (agencies, consultants) can participate without training
- Real-time tracking shows exactly where bottlenecks are - is legal sitting on requests? Now you know

It's affiliate management that scales without adding headcount. Boring? Maybe. Effective? Ask the teams who stopped drowning in approval requests.

Bottom Line

If your affiliate program's approval process involves more than two "per my last email" follow-ups, this integration pays for itself in reclaimed sanity. It's not about doing new things - it's about doing the necessary things without the unnecessary drama.

ApproveThis works because it's approval management that understands real business:
- No approver licenses needed
- No mandatory app logins
- No workflow redesigns required

Just clean handoffs between Affiliatly data and human decisions. Set it up in an afternoon, get back to actually growing your program.

See how it works or start automating approvals.