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We've added coupons that only apply to one product! Yes, we can hear you in the back muttering finally. We really don't know why we waited this long to add them. Hop on over to your coupon list and restrict your coupons until your clicking finger gets a cramp. Percentage coupons apply to the subtotal for that product while fixed price coupons only apply that amount off, regardless of the quantity in the cart. We're a little up in the air about the best way to handle fixed price product coupons. Drop us a support ticket or add a comment to this post and we'll make it work however you guys think is best. Also in this update: Google Checkout edit cart and continue shopping URLs are now automatically supported. A few style fixes. The customer list has been cleaned up quite a bit. We were a bit embarrassed about...

The website is dead. Long live the website! It's no secret that our old website was looking a bit... dated. Today at 3pm Eastern we rolled out a spiffy new website to match the spiffy vendor site we released to you guys a couple of months ago. What do you think? Better or way better?

Today's release brings a handful of changes to DPD. Updated Purchase List We've upgraded everyone's purchase list with useful new features: Search for purchases by customer name. Date range presets save you a few seconds every time you use them. Sales total is now displayed at the top of the purchase list. You no longer have to add up all those numbers by hand! Export as CSV feature lets you import the data into Excel or any other program that supports reading CSV files. SSL Everywhere DPD now uses HTTPS (secure HTTP) for every admin and delivery page on the site. This makes DPD 100% safe to use on insecure networks like public WiFi. All existing carts and buy now buttons will be automatically redirected to HTTPS without any intervention on your part. All new buttons will use HTTPS by default. Miscellaneous Changes Added option to email affiliates when posting...

Here at DPD we maintain a content delivery and ecommerce network that delivers thousands of products. This generates a mountain of data on product sizes, product prices, sales volume, most popular product types, etc. We're serious about our privacy policy though, and we never share or sell sales information about any vendor or their product performance to 3rd parties. We do however use anonymous sales and product data to plan our infrastructure and future features to to provide the best possible service to our vendors. This data includes things like product size, product price, product type (video, pdf, etc.), and how many sales they've had. This helps us gauge our storage and bandwidth requirements and is a crucial tool for us to make sure we have enough capacity to meet demand. In this post we'd like to share a few of those anonymous product statistics with you for fun and...

It's been a long week at DPD HQ and we're happy to announce our intrepid developers got out of bed at 6AM to publish a special TGIF update that brings a number of new features that vendors have been asking for: Tangible Goods DPD now supports the sale of simple tangible goods along side your downloadable products. Tangible goods are anything that needs to be delivered. So you're no longer limited to digital files and product codes with DPD. Sell physical copies of your products like CDs or DVDs. Sell company memorabilia like coffee mugs, yoga mats, bobble heads, t-shirts or stationary. Sell lawn furniture, or your custom replicas of Yoda's gimmer stick.* If you have something to sell, DPD can help you sell it. Our focus will always be on digital product delivery (It is our name after all), but we wanted to accommodate those vendors who might want...

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...