Affiliate sites from a Google Sheet: builders and deal trackers for Telegram-first teams

Key takeaways

• SpreadSimple publishes a Google Sheet as an affiliate site; its free plan (3 sites, 50 rows) is not indexed, per its pricing page.

• Softr and Glide suit gated portals and team entry apps, not public SEO pages.

• Dub's free plan includes 1K tracked events a month (Dub pricing); Geniuslink starts at $6 a month (Geniuslink pricing).

• Zapier's free plan checks a sheet every 15 minutes (Zapier pricing), so flash deals need a paid plan or Make.

• crmchat tracks sponsor deals inside Telegram, free for 50 leads (crmchat pricing).

A Telegram deals channel can run from one Google Sheet. SpreadSimple publishes the rows as a searchable deals site, Dub or Geniuslink tracks each click, and Make or Zapier posts every new row to the channel. Softr adds a login portal for advertisers, Glide gives deal hunters a phone form, and crmchat holds the sponsor pipeline.

We included tools that read from or write to a Google Sheet, or that connect a sheet to a Telegram channel or Telegram chats. We checked each one's own site and pricing page on 21 October 2026.

How does SpreadSimple turn a deals sheet into an affiliate site?

SpreadSimple builds a website from a Google Sheet without code, and content changes in the sheet are automatically reflected on the website (SpreadSimple). Your team keeps editing the deals sheet it already uses. When an expired deal leaves the published tab, it leaves the site too, with no page editor involved.

The Affiliate website template uses a Google Sheets formula that appends your referral code to each product link. The Affiliate Influencer Storefront template adds category pages through URL aliases, a price range slider and one-click referral buttons. Its FAQ confirms that LTK or ShareASale links work alongside Amazon ones. Search, filters, a sitemap and meta tags come built in, and the interface can be shown in 30+ languages (storefront template).

Fits: coupon, deal and niche review sites whose catalog already lives in a sheet. Does not fit: a catalog larger than 10,000 rows, the cap on the largest paid plan, or a site that must rank on the free plan (SpreadSimple pricing).

When does Softr make sense for a deals business?

Softr fits when deals sit behind a login, such as a VIP list for paying subscribers or a portal where advertisers submit offers. Google Sheets is a data source on every Softr plan, including Free. The Softr Google Sheets integration reads and writes in both directions, so a form submitted in the app adds a row to your sheet. Users sign in with email and password, Google sign-in or magic links. Paid plans start with Basic at $25 a month, or $228 a year (Softr pricing). The limitation comes from Softr itself: its Google Sheets docs say Sheets "may not be as powerful as Airtable" for data management. Softr also treats its native database as the default, and images go into a sheet as URLs rather than uploads. A public SEO deals site is a poor match, since Softr positions itself around portals and internal tools.

Can Glide give deal hunters a phone form for the sheet?

Glide turns a spreadsheet into an internal app for desktop and phone, so deal hunters fill a short form instead of scrolling a crowded sheet. A typical form asks for the link, price, expiry date and category, then drops the row into a Drafts tab for review. The fit is a team that finds deals on the go and needs clean entries. Glide does not fit a public affiliate site, because it builds internal apps. Check these points before you build:

• The Glide pricing page now sells GlideOS, a separate platform with plans from $25 a month.

• In Glide Classic, live Google Sheets syncing starts with the Maker plan (Glide docs).

• Glide Classic caps spreadsheet sources at 25,000 rows across all tables (Glide docs).

• A Glide Classic app can use only a single spreadsheet as its source (Glide docs), so keep Drafts and Live as tabs in the same file.

How does Dub show which channel sends clicks on a deal?

Dub gives every deal a branded short link on your own domain, so the site and the Telegram post can each carry their own link and report clicks separately. Dub also offers device and geo targeting, A/B testing, QR codes and a UTM builder. Its API, webhooks and maintained Zapier and Make integrations are listed in the Dub integrations docs. In practice, Make's Dub module creates the links when a deal goes live and writes them back to the row.

According to Dub pricing, the free plan includes 1K tracked events a month and Pro costs $30 a month for 1K new links. Conversion tracking starts on the Business plan at $90 a month (Dub pricing).

Fits: teams that want click data per deal and per channel on a branded domain. Does not fit: commission reporting, since sales on a merchant's checkout are still counted by the affiliate network.

Why use Geniuslink for Amazon deals sent to several countries?

Geniuslink sends each visitor to the product in their own country's Amazon store, which matters when a Telegram audience is spread across countries. Geniuslink also manages affiliate links for other major stores and offers Choice Pages, where one link shows several destinations. Click reports break traffic down by country, device and referrer. A Link Health report flags dead pages and out-of-stock products. Pricing is per click: $6 a month includes 1,000 clicks, each further 1,000 clicks costs $3.50, and a 14-day trial comes first (Geniuslink pricing). Amazon-heavy deal channels with subscribers in many countries get the most from it. Channels built on CPA, SaaS or iGaming offers gain little from Amazon localization and are better served by a general link tracker such as Dub.

How does Make post new sheet rows to a Telegram channel?

Make runs a visual scenario in which a Google Sheets module watches new rows or changed cells and a Telegram Bot module sends a text or photo (Make Google Sheets and Telegram). Add your bot as a channel admin, and every row in the Live tab becomes a post. Make suits flows with several steps, for example:

1. Watch for new rows in the Live tab.

2. Create Dub links for the site and for the post.

3. Send the photo, price, coupon and link to the channel.

4. Write "posted" and the post time back to the row so nothing goes out twice.

The free plan includes 1,000 credits a month (Make pricing), and a busy deals channel can use them up quickly. Scenarios with filters and write-backs need testing before they run unattended, so a solo operator with a single trigger may prefer Zapier. For more patterns, see these Telegram automation tools.

Is Zapier the quickest sheet-to-Telegram setup?

Zapier's ready-made Google Sheets to Telegram connection makes it the quickest setup for one trigger and one action. The Zapier integration page lists "New Spreadsheet Row" and "New or Updated Spreadsheet Row" triggers, plus Telegram actions that send a message, photo or poll from your bot. "New Spreadsheet Row" fires when a row is added at the bottom of the sheet, so do not insert deals at the top.

Fits: solo operators who want a simple post-on-new-row flow running today. Does not fit: flash deals on the free plan, which allows 100 tasks a month, two-step Zaps only and checks for new data every 15 minutes (Zapier pricing). Professional starts at $19.99 a month and adds multi-step Zaps with faster polling (Zapier pricing). Dub and crmchat both connect to Zapier, though crmchat includes Zapier access from the Personal plan upward.

How does crmchat keep advertiser deals from getting lost in Telegram chats?

crmchat puts advertiser, sponsor and affiliate-manager chats into a Telegram-native CRM pipeline, so each sponsored post has a stage and an owner. Telegram Folder Sync turns a folder of advertiser chats into CRM leads, and custom properties hold partner type, stage and next step (crmchat Telegram CRM). A sponsorship pipeline might read Inquiry, Rates sent, Creative approved, Scheduled, Posted, Paid. Other parts of crmchat that matter here:

• Automated message sequences across several Telegram accounts on the Team plan, for pitching brands for exclusive codes.

• A Channel Sync bot that adds new subscribers of your channel to the CRM and can send a welcome DM. This guide on channel sync for affiliates covers the setup.

• Webhooks on every contact event, which Make or Zapier can turn into a row in your sheet.

• The crmchat API for custom builds.

The free Starter plan covers 50 CRM leads and one Telegram account, and Personal costs $29 a month, or $20 a month billed yearly (crmchat pricing). crmchat does not build your site or track link clicks, so it works next to the other tools rather than replacing any of them.

Which stack fits a solo channel, a small team or a network?

1. Solo deal hunter: a paid SpreadSimple plan for an indexed site, Dub's free plan for links, Zapier for channel posts and crmchat Starter for the first advertisers.

2. Amazon-focused channel with an international audience: the SpreadSimple storefront template, Geniuslink for localized links and Make for posting with write-backs.

3. Small team: SpreadSimple, Dub, Make, a Glide entry app and crmchat Team so every sponsorship has an owner. If the same sheet also tracks leads, read why sheets break as trackers.

4. Network or agency with several channels: add a Softr portal where advertisers submit offers, run brand outreach from several Telegram accounts in crmchat, and sync sheet and CRM through webhooks. See how to track an affiliate pipeline for the CRM side.

FAQ

Can a Google Sheet run an affiliate deals website?

Yes. SpreadSimple builds the site from the sheet and reflects every change automatically, with affiliate templates, filters and SEO settings. Plan for a paid SpreadSimple plan if the site needs search engine indexing and a custom domain.

How do I post new deals from Google Sheets to a Telegram channel automatically?

Create a Telegram bot, add it as a channel admin, and connect a Google Sheets new-row trigger to a Telegram Bot photo action in Make or Zapier. Write "posted" back to the row so the same deal is not posted twice.

How should I structure the deals sheet?

Keep one row per deal with fixed columns for title, store, category, price, coupon code, tracked link, image URL, expiry date and status. Use a Drafts tab for new finds and a Live tab that feeds the site and the channel.

How do I see which deals perform better on Telegram than on the website?

Give each deal a separate tracked link per channel, for example with Dub, and compare clicks. For Amazon products sent to several countries, Geniuslink adds localization and click reports by country.

Where should advertiser and sponsorship deals live?

Keep them in a Telegram-native CRM such as crmchat, where chats, stages and next steps sit together. Push closed deals back to the sheet through crmchat webhooks and Make or Zapier.