Know Your Affiliates: Collect Bio and Social Links at Signup

When an affiliate signs up to promote your app, you want to know more than just their name and email. Who are they? What platforms do they use? How big is their audience? This context helps you decide whether to approve them, how to support them, and which affiliates to invest in.

Insert Affiliate now lets you collect bio information and social media links directly during the affiliate self-signup process.

Why Affiliate Profiles Matter

Not all affiliates are the same. A YouTuber with 100,000 subscribers promotes differently from a blogger with a niche audience or an Instagram influencer focused on fitness apps.

When you understand who your affiliates are, you can:

• Make better approval decisions — prioritise affiliates whose audience matches your target market
• Provide tailored support — share relevant marketing materials based on their platform
• Identify top performers early — spot high-potential affiliates before they even make their first sale
• Build stronger relationships — personalise communication based on their background

What Affiliates Can Submit

During the self-signup process, affiliates can now provide:

• Bio / About Me — A short description of who they are, their niche, and their audience
• Social media links — Links to their profiles on platforms like YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, Twitter, LinkedIn, or their personal blog

This information appears in your dashboard alongside their performance data, giving you a complete picture of each affiliate.

How It Works

For Companies

1. Enable Affiliate Self-Signup from the Create Affiliate page
2. The signup form automatically includes bio and social link fields
3. When reviewing pending affiliates (if approval is enabled), you can see their submitted profile
4. Use this information to make informed approval decisions

For Affiliates

1. Visit your company's signup page
2. Fill in the standard details (name, email, password)
3. Add an optional bio and social media links
4. Submit the application

Pairing with Manual Approval

This feature works especially well when combined with manual affiliate approval. When an affiliate applies, you see their bio and social profiles alongside their application — making it easy to assess whether they are a good fit for your programme before granting access.

Better Data, Better Decisions

Affiliate profiles turn anonymous signups into real people you can evaluate and support. Instead of approving affiliates blindly, you have the context to build a curated, high-quality affiliate network that genuinely represents your brand.

Start collecting affiliate profiles today by enabling self-signup from your dashboard.

Key Takeaways

Collecting an affiliate bio and social media profiles during affiliate signup gives you deeper insight into who is representing your brand. This is a crucial part of affiliate onboarding — understanding your affiliates before they start promoting. With built-in affiliate vetting through bio and social link collection, you can make smarter approval decisions and build a higher-quality affiliate network.