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DPD always strives to make things easier. One of the things that's always bugged us has been that there were two product lists- one for instant and one for cart. That's not easy. It's kinda confusing. It makes features like custom emails and delivery pages nearly impossible. So in this update we set out to fix that and ended up making the largest change in DPD history. This update is five months in the making, with over 125 new features, bug fixes, and tweaks, and over 335,000 new lines of code! So, starting early Wednesday, May 12, you will see a few changes at DPD when you login. We'll start with the major changes. New Product / Website User Interface The product list has been completely overhauled. Gone are the days of two product lists. Everything is now on one page. We've added filters to help you find the product...

One of the things that people like most about DPD is how it looks and how easy it is to use. We're always trying to improve on that, so we've upgraded many form and tool elements in the next DPD update. Here is a preview of the new setup page style (this is from the Vendor Profile page): We think it improves the look and feel of DPD greatly- as a matter of fact, we get mad when we have to use the live DPD site after working with our development version. We hope you'll agree!

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Just a quick post to let you guys know whats coming in the next DPD update. This is the largest DPD update in the history of the company with a complete overhaul of the existing code and a whole mess of new features. Over 334,000 new lines of code! Check out a brief list of some of the major new features: Customizable customer emails - #1 Requested Feature AWeber / 3rd party mailing list integration - #2 Requested Feature Google Checkout processor support - #3 Requested Feature Products and customizations grouped by website Unified product list- no more "instant" and "store" products DPD affiliate program overhaul / upgrade User interface improvements throughout New and improved support system and knowledgebase New and improved DPD button generator All these features and more are already in and the update is currently being tested and documented internally. Once testing and documentation is complete we'll...

Here at DPD HQ we type in the www.digitalproductdelivery.com URL about 2 million times a day. It's one big honkin' domain name, and it's been bugging us for a while. That, and because its so long its prone to typos when someone is trying to enter our URL. To remedy that, we've switched DPD to use our new getDPD.com domain. www.digitalproductdelivery.com = 30 characters getdpd.com = 10 characters That's a finger-typing savings of 60%! All joking aside, we hope this shorter URL will be easier to type for everyone involved. There is no need to update any already placed cart buttons or instant checkout buttons- through the magic of the internet they are automatically redirected to the new domain and vendors don't need to update anything. We'll still maintain the www.digitalproductdelivery.com domain until around the time the sun burns out. As always, if anyone discovers any problems with this domain...

Just a quick note to let everyone know that the DPD migration to new servers is complete- everything should be faster for everyone! If anyone has any questions or comments please post them here or send us a support ticket- we're keeping a close watch on the new servers through the weekend to make sure no major issues arise.

Through March 25th DPD will be completing a migration to newer, more powerful servers. This is in response to the growth of DPD and to maintain a high level of service to all vendors, affiliates, and buyers. With the exception of a 10-15 minute time period during changeover, all carts and instant checkout buttons will continue to work normally during this migration. The 10-15 minutes of downtime will be done at non-peak hours to prevent adverse loss of sales to vendors, but during this downtime period all buttons will be inactive. Vendors will still be able to log in to their accounts, however when a vendor's account is moved the following will occur: Vendors will be locked out from creating new products or uploading / updating product data files for existing products during the period of time their account is migrating. This is to prevent the possibility of new products...

We're in the middle of a pretty big overhaul of the DPD user interface right now. Because we want DPD to work for the vast majority of our users (and their customers on the cart and delivery pages) we keep a close eye on our visitor platform / browser statistics. We don't compile statistics for individual stores or sites (and don't want to)- these are aggregate numbers across every product, delivery page, cart, and the DPD site itself. I thought I'd share some basic usage statistics with everyone so they can get some insight in to their fellow vendors as well as the visitors that purchase from their sites: Platform / Operating System (top 5): There are really no surprises here. Windows 85.94% Macintosh 12.49% Linux 0.78% iPhone 0.38% iPod 0.12% Browser (top 5): The Browser stats were interesting to us with Firefox being used more than Internet Explorer among...

We're hard at work adding new features and improvements to DPD. We wanted to give you guys a little teaser preview of what we've been working on, so check out the screenshot for a sneak peak of the coming user interface overhaul and new features! Multiple sales methods per product- add as many buttons with their own checkout method (storefront or instant) and price Better product inventory management and lookup tools redesigned user interface to handle all the extra information Google Checkout support ...and more!