Automate Affiliate Onboarding & Centralize Marketing Assets with a Headless CMS

Struggling with a slow, manual affiliate onboarding process? Wasting time chasing down tax forms and approving applications? Are your affiliates using outdated, off-brand marketing materials because there's no central hub for your latest creatives? This inefficiency hurts your brand consistency and slows down your partner program's growth.


This playbook guides you through building a modern, scalable Affiliate Portal using a headless architecture. We'll replace your clunky, manual onboarding with a streamlined Jotform application that automatically syncs applicant data. All your approved marketing creatives—banners, social copy, email templates—will be centrally managed in Strapi, a powerful headless CMS. Affiliates get a dedicated, fast-loading portal (built with a framework like Next.js) where they can access up-to-the-minute assets and track their performance, ensuring brand consistency and empowering them to succeed.

Expected Outcomes

  • Drastically reduce manual administrative time spent on affiliate onboarding.
  • Ensure 100% brand consistency by providing all affiliates with a single source of truth for marketing assets.
  • Improve the affiliate experience with a modern, fast, and easy-to-use dedicated portal.
  • Increase campaign performance by empowering affiliates with the latest, most effective creatives.
  • Create a scalable foundation to grow your affiliate program without increasing administrative overhead.

Core Tools in This Stack

Strapi

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Strapi is the leading open-source, JavaScript-based headless CMS. It is developer-first, fully customizable, and allows users to build powerful, self-hosted or cloud-based APIs for their content.

Key Features
  • Customizable Content Types (Content-Type Builder)
  • Auto-generated REST and GraphQL APIs
  • Role-Based Access Control (RBAC)
  • Extensible through a plugin system
  • Self-hosting and Cloud deployment options
  • Customizable Admin Panel
  • Internationalization (i18n)
  • Built-in Media Library
Ideal For

Company Size: Micro, Small, Medium, Large

Industries: Technology & Software, Business & Professional Services, Retail & E-commerce, Creative & Media, Education & Non-Profit, Other

Pricing

Model: Free, Subscription, Enterprise

Tier: Mid-Range

Ease of Use

Moderate


Brevo is an all-in-one marketing and sales platform designed to help businesses grow through email marketing, automation, SMS, chat, CRM, and more.

Key Features
  • Email Marketing Campaigns
  • Marketing Automation Workflows
  • Sales CRM
  • Live Chat & Chatbots
  • SMS & WhatsApp Campaigns
  • Landing Page Builder
  • Transactional Email API
  • Push Notifications
Ideal For

Company Size: Micro, Small, Medium, Large

Industries: Technology & Software, Business & Professional Services, Retail & E-commerce, Creative & Media, Education & Non-Profit, Other

Pricing

Model: Free, Subscription, Enterprise

Tier: Low

Ease of Use

High


Jotform

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Jotform is a powerful and user-friendly online form builder that allows users to create custom forms without any coding knowledge. It facilitates easy data collection, workflow automation, and integration with hundreds of other apps.

Key Features
  • Drag-and-drop form builder
  • Extensive template library (10,000+)
  • Conditional logic
  • Payment gateway integrations (e.g., Stripe, PayPal)
  • Automated PDF generation from submissions
  • Workflow automation and approval flows
  • HIPAA compliance features
  • Mobile app for form management
Ideal For

Company Size: Micro, Small, Medium, Large

Industries: Technology & Software, Business & Professional Services, Retail & E-commerce, Creative & Media, Education & Non-Profit, Health & Wellness, Other

Pricing

Model: Freemium, Subscription, Enterprise

Tier: Mid

Ease of Use

High

The Workflow

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Integration Logic

  • Stripe Connect

    This integration initiates when a user submits a Jotform form that is integrated with Stripe for payment processing. Upon successful payment, Jotform triggers a webhook, sending the complete form submission data (customer details, product info, payment confirmation) to a custom API endpoint in Strapi. The Strapi endpoint processes this data, creating a new 'Customer' and a 'Transaction' entry in the CMS. Immediately after successfully saving the data, the Strapi endpoint makes an API call to Brevo, adding the user as a new contact to a specified list and potentially triggering an automation workflow, such as a welcome email or a purchase confirmation.

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