For SaaS marketing teams

Affiliate sign-ups that separate spam from substance

A structured sign-up instead of a freeform email: channels, reach and promotion plan arrive with the application. Coupon farms fall through the grid, real creators get into the programme fast.

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How it works

The affiliate inbox problem

Coupon farms and brand bidders

Half the applications come from voucher sites that skim your brand traffic instead of bringing new traffic. Without channel details in the application, you only spot them once the first "commissions" accrue.

Research per application

"Hi, I want to be your affiliate, what's the commission?" — no website, no channel, no numbers. You google the sender, hunt for their YouTube channel, estimate the reach. Twenty minutes per email, usually wasted.

Good creators don't wait

While you sort spam, the niche blogger with exactly your audience waits for a reply. Take too long and they write about your competitor — affiliate relationships form in the week of the first email or not at all.

How Questee builds your affiliate gate

  1. 1

    Set up a sign-up flow with channel questions

    Built in minutes: main channel as a selection (blog, YouTube, newsletter, social, community), reach range, channel link as a required field, planned promotion as free text. Conditional logic asks the right metric per channel type — subscribers, page views or list size.

  2. 2

    Applicants qualify themselves

    Embedded on your affiliate page, one question per screen, completed in two minutes. The required "link to your channel" field alone filters most spam applications — those with nothing to show drop out here.

  3. 3

    You decide on data

    Every sign-up lands complete in your dashboard and via webhook in your workflow — say, as a Slack message with the channel link ready to review. Acceptance or rejection goes out the same day, and good creators start while their interest is fresh.

Built for clean affiliate recruiting

Conditional logic

YouTube applicants state subscribers, newsletter applicants list size — each channel its metric.

Required fields

No application without a channel link — the cheapest spam filter there is.

Webhooks

Sign-ups as JSON into your tooling — you feed your review queue or affiliate admin yourself.

Embedding

Embedded on your affiliate landing page — application without a context switch.

Analytics dashboard

Which channel types apply, where they come from — your recruiting funnel in numbers.

Hosted in Germany

Applicant data GDPR-compliant on German servers, DPA included.

No network cut, no volume trap

Free to start (3 forms, 100 responses/month). Pro at €12/month (€9/month annually): unlimited forms, your own branding, AI included.

Free

3 forms, 250 responses/month

Pro

Unlimited, 10,000 responses/month, AI included

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Questions about affiliate recruiting

What should an affiliate sign-up require?
The proven core: main channel with a required link, reach as a range (more honest than exact numbers), audience description, planned promotion ("How would you present us?") and prior affiliate experience. The promotion question is the best quality indicator — spam answers generically, creators answer concretely.
Won't a form cost me potential affiliates?
You mostly lose the ones you don't want. Real creators know application forms from every larger partner programme — two minutes of effort deters nobody who seriously wants to promote. What genuinely deters is days of silence, and structured screening is what ends that.
Does Questee replace affiliate tracking software?
No — Questee covers the recruiting gate: application, qualification, handover. Tracking, links and payouts run in your affiliate tool or your own solution; via webhook you hand accepted applicants over seamlessly. The separation is deliberately honest: one tool per job.
Why not just use Google Forms for this?
Google Forms works — but looks like a stopgap, can't do channel-dependent follow-ups without hacks, and sits in the US cloud. Your sign-up form is your programme's first impression: with your branding, clean mobile UX and EU hosting it looks like a programme worth trusting your reach to.
What about GDPR for applicant data?
Affiliate applications contain personal data — name, email, channel links, reach figures. With Questee they sit, transferred encrypted and tenant-isolated, on German servers, with an Art. 28 GDPR DPA. You link your privacy policy right in the form; rejected applications can be deleted after screening.
How do I keep coupon and brand-bidding affiliates out?
Ask explicitly: a selection question "What kind of traffic do you bring?" with a "voucher/deal sites" option pre-sorts — those who pick it see your programme rules via conditional logic. Combined with the required channel link and the concrete promotion question, you spot the rest in seconds during screening.
Can I recruit internationally?
Yes — the form serves German and English from one build, including AI translation at creation time. DACH bloggers apply in German, international YouTubers in English, and both land in the same structured review queue.

Build the gate before the next spam affiliate knocks

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