Refersion by Pantastic vs. Pepperjam Ascend (discontinued)

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.

Incentivized

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

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

Incentivized

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

Incentivized

• Affiliate profile can be more user friendly.

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!

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

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

Incentivized

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

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