Pepperjam Ascend (discontinued) vs. Refersion

For our business, affiliate marketing is by far the lowest ROI marketing channel. If you're looking to get products, brands, and offers listed on coupon sites, Pepperjam Ascend is a great tool. If you're looking to engage with influencers or drive sales without giving away margin, Pepperjam Ascend is likely not for you.

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We use the Refersion app to basically manage our company’s brand affiliates. The Refersion app is really helpful with the brand ambassador applications, creating their unique discount code and, of course, tracking their conversions or commissions or sales. Our company really likes the tool because it is easy to use and customer support is nice too.

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• Lots of coupon sites.
• Enables different tiers of commissions.
• Can blast out newsletters to your network.

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• Track conversions.
• Manage brand affiliates.
• Hs a good registration page.

Incentivized

• The dashboard/platform is the furthest thing from user-friendly. It looks like a high school student with zero experience designed it in excel and hoped for the best with the results.
• Reports are hit and miss. They may load, they may not! It's ridiculous, in my opinion.
• No mobile options whatsoever, everything has to be desktop. It's 2022, they need to catch up!

• Affiliate profile can be more user friendly.

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Pepperjam Ascend's user interface is way behind these other platforms. It's not intuitive nor is it easy to create custom reports and engage with your publishers. We have been stuck with Pepperjam and many other affiliate networks have a very similar layout without much upside.

Incentivized

• I was hitting anywhere from $130 - $450 per month in commission payout before Pepperjam Ascend. Now with Pepperjam Ascend, I maybe get $40! I am still waiting on payouts from January.

• Positive is it give us more sales due to our affiliates.
• Our ambassador program looks legit because of this tool.

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