ApproveThis manages your Polling.com Integration approvals.

When Approval Workflows Meet Survey Data

Let’s get real: most companies treat approvals and surveys like separate problems. You’ve got Polling.com collecting customer feedback, event data, or internal opinions. Then there’s ApproveThis handling the “yes/no” decisions that keep your business moving. But what happens when you connect the dots between what people want and who needs to sign off on it?

This integration isn’t about replacing forms with polls or vice versa. It’s about closing the loop between data collection and decision-making. Think: automatically flagging survey responses that require executive review, or logging every approved request as a tracked event in Polling.com. No more copy-pasting results into Slack threads or losing track of which feedback item got the green light.

Why This Combo Works for Mid-Sized Companies

If you’re managing 50-5,000 employees, you’ve likely hit that sweet spot where ad-hoc approvals start crippling productivity. The marketing team needs sign-offs on survey questions. HR wants to track approval rates for policy changes. Finance requires audit trails for budget-related polls. ApproveThis handles the gatekeeping; Polling.com provides the raw input. Together via Zapier, they turn “we should do something about this survey result” into actual action.

Key Benefits You Won’t Get From Standalone Tools

For approvers: No need to jump between platforms. Approve/deny directly from email, even if you’ve never opened Polling.com. License costs stay lean because external partners or clients only need ApproveThis access for decisions.

For survey admins: Auto-create approval tickets when specific poll thresholds get hit (like 80% of employees requesting a policy change). Use Polling.com’s real-time results to trigger ApproveThis workflows without manual oversight.

For execs: See how approval timelines correlate with survey sentiment in one dashboard. Conditional routing means urgent requests from high-priority accounts skip the line automatically.

Real Use Cases That Don’t Suck

These aren’t hypothetical “maybe someday” scenarios – these are workflows we’ve seen work for companies tired of decision bottlenecks:

1. Instant Approval Tickets for High-Stakes Survey Responses

Polling.com detects a customer complaint about a defective product? ApproveThis automatically creates an approval request for your QA team with the survey data pre-attached. Legal flags a problematic response in an employee engagement poll? Route it to HR leadership with calculated urgency scores based on response severity.

Who uses this: Customer success teams at SaaS companies, manufacturing QA departments, healthcare compliance officers.

2. Approval-Driven Event Logging

Every time your team approves a purchase request in ApproveThis, Polling.com logs it as a custom event. Now you can track how approved budgets correlate with campaign survey results, or measure time-to-approval against project timeline polls.

Who uses this: Procurement teams analyzing vendor selection processes, marketing ops tracking campaign approvals against performance data.

3. Post-Approval Session Tracking

When a request gets approved/denied, Polling.com creates a session event marking the exact decision time and stakeholders involved. Useful for audits, or correlating approval speeds with employee satisfaction survey trends.

Who uses this: Finance teams auditing procurement decisions, HR tracking DEI initiative approvals.

Setting This Up Without Losing Your Mind

Zapier’s the glue here, and setup takes about 12 minutes if you’re moderately tech-savvy:

1. Connect ApproveThis and Polling.com to your Zapier account
2. Pick a trigger (e.g., “New survey response in Polling.com”)
3. Set conditions (only trigger if response contains X keyword/score)
4. Map Polling.com data to ApproveThis request fields
5. Test with a real survey submission

Pro tip: Use ApproveThis’ calculated fields to auto-score survey urgency. Example: (Negative sentiment score) + (Respondent’s account tier) = Approval priority level.

Teams That Benefit Most (and How)

Marketing & Product Teams

Scenario: Launching a new feature? Run a Polling.com survey to gauge interest, then auto-route approval requests for development based on response thresholds. Approvers get context straight from customer feedback, no PDF exports required.

HR & People Ops

Scenario: Employee pulse surveys trigger approval workflows for policy changes. If 70% request remote work flexibility, ApproveThis routes the decision to execs with all relevant data attached. Bonus: Use approval groups to require consensus from legal, HR, and department heads.

Procurement & Finance

Scenario: Vendor selection polls (via Polling.com) auto-create purchase approval requests in ApproveThis when a preferred vendor hits majority vote. Escalate anything over $50k to CFO via approval thresholds.

What You Can’t Do (and What You Can)

Limitation: Polling.com’s API doesn’t support real-time bidirectional syncs. ApproveThis can’t retroactively edit survey responses after approval (nor should it).

Workaround: Use Zapier filters to only trigger approvals for net-new responses. For updates, set up a separate “Survey Updated” zap with conditional checks.

Why This Isn’t Just Another Integration

Most Zapier combos just shuffle data between apps. This pairing actually changes how decisions get made:

• Approvers see the why behind requests (direct survey quotes)
• Survey admins get accountability (every response can require a decision)
• Analysts gain cross-platform insights (approval times vs. survey trends)

It’s about closing the gap between data collection and action – without hiring a project manager to bridge the two.

Getting Started (Without the BS)

If you’re using Polling.com for anything beyond casual surveys, you need approvals that match the rigor of your data collection. ApproveThis doesn’t require ripping out existing tools – just smarter connections between them.

Register for ApproveThis, connect your Polling.com account via Zapier, and set up your first automation in under 15 minutes. Or, if you’d rather see it live first, book a 10-minute demo where we’ll show how to automate approvals for your top 3 use cases.