Describe your partner program. Makeform turns the brief into a focused partner application form that captures company fit, audience, experience, and activation plans for consistent review.
Route partner applications to Slack, Google Sheets, and Zapier.
Sample prompts for the builder
Choose a prompt, adapt it, or send it into the Makeform builder. Each structure is an editable example.
Audience
Publishers, creators, and educators applying to promote a product
Format
Qualification form with audience and channel details
Prompt size
274 chars
Example form structure
Qualification form with audience and channel details
Applicant and business details
Website and content examples
Audience size and primary channels
How would you promote our product?
I accept the program guidelines
Suggested routing tags
Affiliate applicants
Agency partners
Needs review
Ask how applicants plan to create demand, then show channel-specific follow-ups. Concrete plans are easier to assess than generic interest.
Step 1
Apply
applicant shares fit, reach, and plan
Step 2
Qualify
answers route to the right program owner
Step 3
Review
team compares complete partner profiles
Step 4
Respond
approved and declined applicants get next steps
Why use an application form
Inbox introductions are hard to compare. A structured application asks every prospective partner for the same decision-ready details.
Start with the partner model, then reveal only questions relevant to that path.
Collect customers, industries, regions, channels, and audience context for review.
Tag each submission and notify the matching program owner.
Programs this form fits
Choose a program type, then edit its language, thresholds, and follow-up questions.
Ask about audience, traffic sources, content, promotion methods, and product alignment.
Capture services, clients, sales coverage, capacity, and relationship preference.
Review profiles, creative samples, brand affinity, availability, and content ideas.
Collect integration scope, customer use case, owners, dependencies, and timing.
Application workflow
Turn a short program brief into a published form and route complete applications into your review workflow.
Name accepted partner models, ideal applicants, your offer, and required evidence.
Mark essentials required and add follow-ups for each partner model.
Notify the reviewer with a consistent, complete applicant profile.
Add review status in a connected workflow and compare applicant sources.
Form vs email vs generic intake
A dedicated form creates a repeatable record without forcing applicants through irrelevant questions.
Field guide
These six sections collect enough evidence for the next decision without demanding a business plan.
Applicant profile
Separate the primary contact from the public business identity so the team can reply and research efficiently.
Audience and market
Ask who applicants reach, where they operate, and which problems their community wants solved.
Experience and evidence
Request a few relevant examples of content, implementations, campaigns, or client work.
Program fit
Ask applicants to connect your offer to an audience need and desired partnership outcome.
Activation plan
Ask what happens after approval to expose mismatched expectations and guide onboarding.
Guidelines and follow-up
Show guidelines beside the acknowledgment, explain next steps, and ask permission to follow up.
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Open toolFAQ
Practical answers for partnership, affiliate, channel, and growth teams designing an applicant intake process.
It is a structured intake form for people or companies seeking an affiliate, referral, reseller, agency, ambassador, or technology partnership. It collects identity, fit, experience, audience, and proposed activities for the program team's next decision.
Ask for contact and company details, partner type, audience or clients, regions, channels, experience, example links, reasons for applying, and an activation plan. Add model-specific questions about affiliate promotion, agency capacity, or integration scope.
Ask for the partner model first. Use conditional logic to show a short branch for affiliates, agencies, resellers, ambassadors, or technology partners. Keep shared identity and fit questions outside those branches, then tag the submission by model.
Audience range can help, but pair it with relevance, channels, geography, and examples. A smaller specialized audience may fit better than a larger unrelated one. Ask how the applicant expects to introduce your offer.
Yes. Add a file upload for a media kit, portfolio, capability deck, or technical overview. You can also request public URLs when links are easier to review. Explain which evidence is useful.
Define consistent dimensions: customer overlap, channel or delivery capability, program fit, proposal quality, and prerequisites. Route each submission to an owner, record a status, and assess the full answers rather than one vanity metric.
Yes. Makeform is unlimited free for generating, editing, publishing, and collecting responses. The paid tier removes the Makeform badge; it does not unlock additional response capacity.
Yes. Route submissions to Slack, Google Sheets, and connected apps through Zapier. Include a partner-type tag and key qualification answers so the right owner can review each proposal.
Make every partnership proposal easier to assess.
