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We've just released an update that brings a new service product type to DPD. Service products do not include a download, keycode, or tangible good. They are useful for when you might want to sell consulting services, installation services, or other non-product related offerings to your customers. To create a service product, simply select the Service product type when setting up a new product using our wizard. You will be able to set the name, price, and other options like other DPD product types. The one big difference with service products is that you can specify a rich text block to be shown on the download page. This text block can include instructions to the buyer specific to the service they purchased, a link to a specific page on your own website where they can complete additional information related to the service, etc. Service products can be included in bundles....

Cerizmo.com is closing it's service on May 14, 2012. As a result, they have recommended that their users switch to DPD to continue selling downloads. This post is intended to clear up any questions Cerizmo users may have. How does DPD work? DPD works almost exactly like Cerizmo. You upload your products to DPD and set a price and product options. DPD gives you HTML button code for you to copy-and-paste in to your website. When a customer buys your products, DPD sends them to your choice of processor for payment directly to you. Once the customer has paid, DPD provides them with a unique, expiring download page for them to get their products. Like Cerizmo, DPD charges a flat monthly fee with no transaction fees, bandwidth fees, or commissions. How is DPD different? DPD offers numerous product types: Digital Downloads, Keycodes, Tangible Goods, and Service Products are possible DPD...

We've released a much requested feature- the ability to make buyers accept an End-User License Agreement (EULA) / Terms and Conditions before an item can be added to their cart. This is a feature of the new cart and checkout, so you'll need to upgrade if you haven't already done so (it's easy and free!). Adding an EULA to a Product The new EULA feature is per product. To add an EULA to any product simply create a new or edit an existing product and enable the End-User License Agreement feature. Paste your EULA in to the text box and save your product. This will display the EULA and require the buyer to hit the accept button before the product can be added to their cart. For instant checkout products, the EULA will be displayed for acceptance before the buyer goes to their processor specific checkout. Customizing the EULA Page...

Today we're pleased to release upgraded 2Checkout (2CO) support to a full cart processor for our new cart and checkout. 2Checkout.com (2CO) is a worldwide leader in payments and e-commerce services. 2CO powers online sellers with a global platform of payment methods and a world-class fraud prevention service on secure and reliable PCI-compliant payment pages. 2Checkout’s payments platform bundles a gateway and merchant account into one single offering with no need to contract with a merchant bank or manage separate agreements. You can accept Visa, MasterCard, AMEX, Discover, PayPal, Diner’s Club, JCB and Debit cards (in the U.S.) from one solution through 2Checkout’s fully secure hosted payment pages. In addition, 2CO provides call center support, full SSL certification, and the system is translatable in 15 languages and 26 international currencies for buyers and sellers in over 200 countries. Use promo code DPD2CO for a full waiver of 2Checkout's $49 signup...

Today's update fixes several bad French translations for the v2 cart. Special thanks go to Christophe, a DPD vendor who assisted with the translations. Also in this update: Fixed v2 cart not saving language selection Fixed GetResponse integration not marking customers as active and part of the campaign (cycle_day=0)

Today's update includes several updates to the version 2 cart: The cart will now use your customer's location to guess the selected country. If a location could not be found it still defaults to US. You can now customize the text that's displayed next to the payment methods. All new stores now default to using the version 2 cart. You can now customize the cart button color if you don't like the blue. You can now choose which countries you want to support. You can also float your primary countries to the top of the list by marking them as "Priority" countries. Quantity is now hidden on the cart and on delivery if the product doesn't support multiple quantities to be purchased at one time. Fixed store image not appearing on PayPal checkout. Fixed product description wrapping on cart view. Response to the version two cart has been overwhelmingly positive!...

This is going to be a long post, but we've never released an update like this before! Digital Product Delivery was started as a simple instant checkout and delivery system for single, standalone products. As we grew, customers requested features and we bolted them on as well as we could, but after a couple years we were in a corner. We had a place where we wanted DPD to be, but we couldn't get there with our current cart. About 8 months ago we sat down and looked at what we needed to do to make Digital Product Delivery the best platform selling and delivering downloads, keycodes, and tangible goods. There were no sacred cows- we decided that whatever we had to do we were going to do it, even if we had to rewrite the whole whole darn thing. Well, we did. We're pleased to announce the all new...

On December 10th, 2011, Louis CK, a popular and well known stand-up comedian, producer, and TV star (of his own show, Louie) offered up his Louis CK: Live at the Beacon Theater stand-up performance on his website for viewing and download, with no DRM, for $5 via PayPal. On December 13th, he issued a statement on his website that had some amazing sales numbers: The show went on sale at noon on Saturday, December 10th. 12 hours later, we had over 50,000 purchases and had earned $250,000, breaking even on the cost of production and website. As of Today, we've sold over 110,000 copies for a total of over $500,000. On December 21st, he issued another statement with an unbelievable screenshot and earnings numbers: So it's been about 12 days since the thing started and yesterday we hit the crazy number. One million dollars. That's a lot of money. Really...

We've just released another update (two days in a row!) that adds some much requested options to the extremely popular PDF Stamping / Buyer Tracking feature. Vendors can now: Enable or Disable Stamping / Buyer Tracking on PDF products Customize the stamp text using available merge vars outlined in our KB article Set the Tracking Page Limit (for if you only want to stamp the title pages, etc.) Set the Font Color to make the text stand out or blend in Set the Font Size - from 6pt all the way up to 20pt! Set the X and Y position of the stamp to put it right where you want it. On Y and Y Positions The X and Y positions are specified in points. There are 72 points in an inch. The new X and Y positions can be tricky- every PDF has an "origin" that the X and...

Today we published a minor update that includes a number of customer requested features and a few bug fixes and tweaks. Mark Products as Coupon Eligible DPD vendors can now mark individual products as coupon eligible when editing a product. This is a simple on/off checkbox setting that when unchecked will exclude the product from all coupon calculations, both fixed and percentage based. This is useful for when you have a new product that you don't want to allow coupons on, but want coupons to be valid for your older stock, etc. Added {product_keys} Merge Var to Email Templates Vendors can now print the product keys in a purchase directly to the Purchase Ready email. The {product_keys} merge var will print all the product keys in an order, one per line, in a productname: key format like so: Product Name: Key Product Name: Key Product Name: Key [...] The {product_keys}...