Awin vs. Pepperjam Ascend (discontinued)

I believe that Awin is well suited for any company looking to grow their affiliate program. Whether it is expanding to another affiliate platform or their first affiliate platform I think that the Awin affiliate platform is a great place for any scenario. We have been very happy with our choice of using Awin to manage our affiliate program.

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There is no place where Pepperjam Ascend is well suited. The company needs to throw itself away and start over with all new everything!

• Clean interface.
• Different reporting options.
• Easy to use link builder.

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

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• Making it easier to grow your affiliate program.

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• 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!

It’s the far more clean and intuitive one in terms of interface, easy to navigate your way through to find what you need, whether that’s new affiliate programs to join, contact details, its link builder, or pulling reports. As soon as you sign in, too, you get an immediate indication of how many transactions you’ve converted and Month on monthly performance.

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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.

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• Can better address the success of an article in terms of conversion.
• A way to build relationships between merchant and publisher.

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• Very low ROI.
• Less than 1% of total revenue.

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