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We've started a new tutorial videos section here on the DPD blog that shows how to use DPD to do various tasks. Our first video, Setting up your First DPD Storefront, is available now with more to come soon! You can view the Tutorial Videos Section by visiting the tutorial videos link at the top of the DPD Blog.

We've just published and update to DPD that incorporates the following new features, changes, and bug fixes as well as lays the groundwork for a couple major features coming soon. Please read on to learn whats new and coming up with DPD: Localized Checkout We've been running a beta of the localized checkout system with several vendors for the past few weeks and it's now available to all. DPD Vendors can now select a default language for the shopping cart and/or instant checkout experience as well as the PayPal checkout process locale. Buyers will always have the option to override the displayed language if it is not in their native tongue. All alternate languages have been professionally translated by a trusted 3rd party translation company. This will allow vendors to create products and stores targeted at different countries and markets- For example, a US vendor can create a product or...

We want to take a moment to wish everyone a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! This year has been great for DPD with hundreds of new vendors- we couldn't have done it without each and every one of you. Thanks! Due to the Christmas holiday we'll have limited support staff on duty December 24-26. Please forgive us if non-critical service issues and general questions take longer to get answered during this holiday period- as I'm sure you will all understand we want our developers to have an opportunity to spend time with their families too. We will have a developer on call throughout the holiday to monitor the DPD system and help vendors with critical issues, so we'll make sure the buy buttons keep sending you money throughout the holiday :) Once again, thank you all and Merry Christmas!

At approximately 4:30AM EST we needed to apply a security and system update to the DPD servers. When we must install critical updates to server software that has the possibility to disrupt services for vendors we always try to do it at our lowest traffic periods in the middle of the night to minimize the impact on users. While this update was being installed a few users experienced difficulty logging in to their DPD accounts. We're sorry about the inconvenience and full account access has been restored to all vendors. Thank you for your understanding, and if there is anything we can do please don't hesitate to submit a support ticket after logging in for priority support.

We've had numerous requests to make the cart and delivery pages of DPD multilingual to facilitate selling in non-English speaking countries. Today we've published our first update to address multilingual checkout. Visitors to the storefront cart on your web page will now be presented with a language dropdown in the top right corner to change to their native language. The current language choices are English (default), Spanish, and French. This will change the cart language, currency display format, and delivery page language. We're not done though- we plan to add the following features to the multi-language checkout over the coming weeks: Additional Languages - German and Portuguese Vendor selectable default language- Right now the default is English, but soon vendors will be able to set their own default from the list of available languages. Instant Product delivery page language selection A few miscellaneous messages that are not currently translated Error...

Its no secret- here at DPD we love being able to breathe. That's why we've partnered with CO2Stats to to offset our emissions with EPA-Certified, audited renewable energy. Digital delivery is already the most ecologically conscious delivery option on the planet- no trees get chopped down, no gasoline is burned in delivery trucks, and no fuel is consumed keeping inventory climate controlled. We've taken it one step further by offsetting our CO2 emissions with clean renewable power. CO2Stats calculates the combined electricity used by computers visiting this site, the servers providing it, and the networks that connect them. CO2Stats then helps to make this site more energy efficient (and load faster), and purchases renewable energy to neutralize the carbon emissions due to generation of that electricity. CO2 Stats calculates the CO2 footprint of the DPD servers, vendors using the service- even the buyers who purchase products! We then offset these...

Several months ago we added the DPD Storefront system- our own twist on multi-item checkout. DPD Storefronts allow any DPD account to have an unlimited number of customized shopping carts, allowing you to use one DPD subscription to sell on many sites all with their own customizations. However, this new Storefront system was not compatible with the legacy Standalone "Buy Now!" single product purchase buttons. This lead to being two separate product creation flows, two seperate product lists (Storefront and Standalone), and a lot of duplication. We always kinda hated that- it's pretty confusing to new users. To correct it we've released a minor update to DPD that unifies the product lists and product creation process. When DPD vendors log in to the Dashboard they'll see a new set of options down the side- one "Create New Product" link and one "View Products" link: the new, simpler dashboard sidebar The...

We've just released a minor update to the DPD-Cart Wordpress plugin that corrects a JSON error when the site hosting the Wordpress blog was using an older PHP version. DPD users can upgrade to DPD-Cart v1.2 automatically in their wp-admin or downloading the updated plugin from the Wordpress.org DPD-Cart Plugin Page.

In order to provide expanded product storage space to DPD as well as provide for faster, more reliable downloads for vendors we're in the process of moving product storage to Amazon S3, a distributed content delivery network. Amazon "Simple Storage Service" (S3) is a highly scalable, reliable, fast data storage and content delivery network that uses the same infrastructure Amazon uses to run its own global network of web sites. What does this mean for DPD Vendors? More reliability. Using a unqiue caching strategy DPD will maintain and sync local and S3 copies of files to prevent any network or hardware related issues. This will also reduce load on the DPD server, providing better service to DPD users. More download speed. Instead of customers competing for bandwidth on the DPD servers when there is high demand, now every customer will download at the full speed of their internet connection from...

Some vendors prefer have a single product website with a simple "Buy Now!" instant checkout button. DPD allows for the creation of Standalone Products to suit this need. Standalone products are commonly found on "Pinch Pages" and for products that use affiliate systems such as ClickBank. DPD Standalone Products: Function exactly like PayPal "Buy Now!" buttons for the customer- instant checkout without a cart Automatically deliver the customers product after purchase Allow for integration with PayPal and 2CheckOut processors Allow for integration with ClickBank and PayDotCom affiliate systems Do not have coupon codes or multi-item checkout For multi-item websites we strongly recommend you create Storefront Products for use with the DPD Storefront multi-item cart checkout system. Important Note: DPD Standalone Product buttons completely replace all other checkout buttons on the page. You must not have standard PayPal or ClickBank generated buy buttons on the page. If a customer begins checkout...