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Early Tuesday morning Jacob's wife gave birth to a beautiful and healthy baby boy. Jacob is one of the brilliant developers behind DPD and as one of the two original founders wrote most of the code that delivers your products each and every day. Most of you never speak to Jacob, but thats not because he's on vacation. As head of development for DPD he focuses on the technical aspects of the service and keeps everything running under the hood along with our newest partner, Scott. Rest assured though, if you've ever received a reply from me that read "One of the developers checked it out and fixed..." there's a good chance he was the one that solved your problem. He's been my best friend for over 20 years and I've come to think of him as the brother I've never had. I have no doubt he will make a...

Would you like that a bit more blue? How about making the fonts a nice shade of green? Want to scrap what we gave you and start from scratch? Now you can! DPD now supports full cart and delivery page customization for all 20 product or more plans. We have two different ways to do it for your customization pleasure: Basic color and the advanced full template customization. To get started, go to the Look and Feel page of your website profile and open up a template editor: Basic: Color Customization Not so keen on the HTML and CSS? No problem- Go the easy route and pick 11 glorious colors to make the default template look a little more like your site. Advanced: Full Template Customization For the artistic and technical types we offer full template customization so you can customize how your cart and delivery pages look down to...

This morning we published an update that introduced an all new vendor control panel. This fluid, full width admin interface makes better use of widescreen monitors and higher resolution displays- something our server usage stats tell us that most vendors are moving toward. We've also made a couple usability improvements that we hope will make things easier to understand for everyone that uses DPD to sell downloads. New Vendor Control Panel The new vendor control panel is based on the 960gs system and is a fluid, full width template that uses 100% of your monitor instead of the bit in the middle. This gives us the ability to pack more information on a screen, reduces scrolling, and gives us lots of places to stick new features :) Of note in the new admin interface is the side navigation- we've moved all commonly used vendor functions to the left sidebar for...

We're going to start featuring great products and services who use DPD to sell and deliver their products. We love to support vendors who use DPD, and we enjoy seeing what you guys have done with your site and products! ProductShotPro has two things going for it that make it a great featured vendor for DPD- A great product that lots of DPD vendors can use and a great website integration with DPD :) What is ProductShotPro? Digital product graphics are popular with vendors who sell downloads. When buyers see a product shot of the item they are about to download they may be less apprehensive about spending money on downloadable products or software- helping to increase sales. This is where ebook cover software like ProductShotPro comes in. Product Shot Pro is a complete graphics suite of professionally designed and easy to use 3D style product cover templates. With ProductShotPro...

We've decided that we're going to start making semi-regular "DPD Featured Vendor" product and site review posts here on the DPD Blog for products and services that might be of interest to other DPD vendors. This is good for a few reasons- It gives DPD vendors free reviews, exposure, and promotion to a targeted group of users (download product sellers) It shows people what others are doing with their DPD powered cart It lets DPD show off great looking sites that use DPD It lets DPD vendors provide a coupon or special value to other DPD vendors, saving them money while driving sales DPD Featured Vendors will have a free review posted on the DPD blog as well as a spotlight link in the DPD newsletter. This will be for DPD vendors only and the featured vendors will be picked by the DPD team. Want to be a DPD Featured...

Today we published a small update that tweaked how a couple DPD features worked. None of these affect currently deployed DPD buy buttons or products already set up in the system. ClickBank Updates Previously DPD would only work if a ClickBank sale initiated through a DPD generated buy button. DPD will now work with ClickBank if the sale initiates through either a DPD buy button OR a direct ClickBank link such as itemnumber.username.clickbank.net. This should solve problems going forward with some users using pre-built scripts to power their ClickBank sales sites, and also sales that originate through 3rd party ClickBank directory type sites. Also, ClickBank "thank you" pages provided by DPD now show a relevant error instead of the standard 404 error for dead pages when they are browsed to directly. The page will show an "active" status message when the product is set up and good to go. DPD...

We've been working with MailChimp to get our services hooked up and I'm pleased to announce that DPD integration with MailChimp is now live! Now you can pass customer data from any website profile directly to MailChimp automatically. DPD supports Name, Email, and Address data to be passed and automatically included in your lists (if your list has address fields). We use MailChimp here at DPD for our infrequent customer newsletters and we think they're the best around. Their service is outstanding, their support people are great, and from our integration experience with them I can tell you first hand that it's run by a great group of people. MailChimp offers THE best list management tool on the planet. They support autoresponders and signup forms and have an active user and developer community to help you get going. We really can't say enough good things about MailChimp here at DPD-...

We've released a couple new features: purchase notifications (IPNs) and keycode retrieval. Purchase Notifications DPD now supports sending purchase notifications to a URL of your choice. We send most of the same fields that PayPal sends in their IPN plus a few fields that are specific to our service. Hop on over to the documentation to learn more. We're pretty excited about this feature. It opens up DPD for tighter integration into 3rd party services. We'll be announcing an integration later this week. Keycode Retrieval Hot on the heels of last week's keycode release we've added a branded keycode retrieval page. Link to this page from your website and your customers can retrieve their purchased keycodes without asking you for help. Grab the URL from the "Website Tools" link under your website on your product list. We'd love to hear your feedback on this feature. Fixes and Tweaks Delivery pages...

This morning we pushed a couple new features out to DPD. We're working hard to make DPD the best we can. Please let us know if there is a feature you'd like to see in an upcoming release. Key Code delivery DPD now supports delivering key codes (serial keys, product activation keys). We support three generation methods: Bulk upload Upload your codes into DPD and we will deliver them. Single key Use one code for all deliveries. URL Setup a URL on your server and DPD will request a new code for every sale. Keycode Feature Information / Instructions in the DPD Knowledgebase We're also evaluating adding some of the more popular key generators. Let us know which one you use. Fixes and tweaks in this release You can now activate a pending purchase. Added an alternative uploader for customers unable to use the Java uploader. We allow recording a...

This morning we published a minor update to DPD that added a few new features and tweaked a couple of improvements made in the last update. New features and tweaks included in this update: DPD now displays product images on an improved delivery page designed to give your customers more info about what they're downloading. If there is no product image uploaded, DPD will display a file type icon to give buyers a better understanding of what they're downloading. Here is an example from the DPD Demo Store: If you've uploaded a product image it is now displayed in the DPD product list. We've digitally signed the DPD product uploader for enhanced security. We corrected the button image alt text on free buttons. Revamped sales site to include new features in last update. Automatic subscription emails for failed payments, cancellations, and credit cards that are expiring soon. Fixed problem with...