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Ascend

Updated on

Jun 10, 2026

Description

Ascend (formerly Pepperjam) is an affiliate marketing platform that helps advertisers and publishers run and grow partnership and affiliate programs.

Setup guide

Follow our setup guide to connect Ascend to Improvado.

Step 1. Click the Make a new Connection on the Connections page.
Categories on the Data sources page group all available platforms. Use a search to find the required one.

Step 2. Click on the Ascend tile.

Step 3. Authorize your account by filling in the fields below:

  • Organization Name — a label for this connection (for example, your company name).
  • API Key — the API key issued from your Ascend dashboard.
  • API Version — the version of your API key. Leave it empty to use the default.

Note: To find your API Key and API Version: log in to your Ascend dashboard, click Resources in the left navigation menu and select API Keys (or go directly to ascend.pepperjam.com/merchant/api).

Step 4. After the connection is completed, the Ascend connection will appear in your Connected sources list.

Step 5. When the connection status is Active, and the account status column shows a number of accounts, you can move on to data extraction.

Step 6. To extract data from the connected sources, check the instruction on how to set up data extraction.

Schema information

The schema information shows all report types you can use to extract data from Ascend.

Settings

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Troubleshooting

Troubleshooting guides

Check out troubleshooting guides for
Ascend
here:

Limits

You can find information about the latest API changes in the official Ascend Advertiser API documentation.

Frequently asked questions

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Questions?

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