The All-New DPD Cart Plugin for WordPress

  • Jason@DPD
  • June 14, 2018
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This week we’ve released the all-new DPD Cart plugin for WordPress.  The DPD Cart Plugin 2.0 is available for automatic installation in the WordPress plugin directory and adds the following features to your WordPress site:

  1.  Adds the required DPD javascript to the blog header to power the Lightbox cart (optional) and product widgets.
  2. Adds a button to post and page visual editors to insert DPD buttons in your content.
  3. Adds a store page and individual product pages to your WordPress site.

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Added Cross-Sales and various bug fixes.

  • Jason@DPD
  • June 6, 2018
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Woo, a non-GDPR post!

This week we released a Cross-Sell feature for products in DPD. This feature lets you offer an additional product to buyers when the add an item to the cart.

Up-Sell: Replace the item they added to the cart with another item

Cross-Sell: (new!) Add an item in addition to the item they added to the cart.

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Update to Marketing Opt-In Based on Vendor Feedback

  • Jason@DPD
  • May 31, 2018
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We’ve released a change to the marketing opt-in feature based on vendor feedback we’ve received since the feature release this week.

Now when marketing opt-in is disabled DPD will function like it always has in the past and will automatically send your customer data to 3rd party integrations. If marketing opt-in is enabled, it will honor the customer’s input when sending data to 3rd party integrations.

To break it down and make it easy to understand:

  1. Marketing Opt-In disabled: DPD will automatically send customer data to marketing integrations just like we’ve always done.
  2. Marketing Opt-In enabled, customer checks the box: DPD will send customer data to marketing integrations.
  3. Marketing Opt-In enabled, customer unchecks the box: DPD will NOT send customer data to marketing integrations.

It is up to each vendor to decide if their marketing practices are compliant with GDPR- we’re giving you the tools to do it how you like.

New Feature: Marketing Opt-In for GDPR Compliance

  • Jason@DPD
  • May 24, 2018
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This post has been updated on May 31 to address vendor feedback changes.

In addition to our previous policy changes for GDPR, this morning we’ve released a new “marketing opt-in” feature that displays a checkbox on the cart during checkout. If checkout is completed with this box unchecked, your buyer will not be sent to marketing integrations configured on your store.

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Critical Update: Payza.com seized by DOJ, ending support immediately

  • Jason@DPD
  • March 29, 2018
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The Payza.com domain has been seized by the United States Department of Justice.

Payza and its associated an parent companies are being indicted on the following charges:

18 u.s.c. § 371 (Conspiracy);
18 U.S.C. § 1960(a) (Operating an Unlicensed Money Transmission Business);
18 u.s.c. § 1956 (h) (Conspiracy to Launder Monetary Instruments);
D.C. Stat.§ 26-1001 (Money Transmitting without a License)

Additionally, the indictment outlines several other criminal activities such as operating Ponzi and Pyramid schemes, money laundering related to controlled substances, and illegal pornography.

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Making Great eBook Covers on a Budget

  • Jason@DPD
  • February 23, 2018
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One of the biggest things you can do to improve sales and give a professional appearance to your information products is have a great cover / product photo for your downloadable product. In the case of ebooks or PDFs, this means you need a cover you can use on your website, on your product in DPD to be shown in the cart and customer portal, and when marketing your product. In this post we’ll go over some options for creating covers and show you a simple workflow to create your own.

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Sell Downloads on a WIX Free website with DPD

  • Jason@DPD
  • February 22, 2018
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We often get asked how to integrate DPD with a WIX free website. WIX is a popular What You See Is What You Get (WYSIWYG) website editor because it has a free plan, you don’t have to know how to use HTML or CSS to make a website, and they have commercials on cable TV. This post will show you step-by-step how to use the DPD cart with WIX’s built in buttons.

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Outlook.com’s Silly New Inbox and Customer Emails

  • Jason@DPD
  • February 16, 2018
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Outlook.com, which is the online inbox for hotmail, msn, live, and outlook.com email addresses, has changed their inbox view to show two tabs– Focused and Other. They call this feature Focused Inbox and its creating issues for lots customers who think they aren’t getting their emails.

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DPD Update: Updates to Device Based Activation based on vendor feedback- we’re listening!

  • Jason@DPD
  • January 17, 2018
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In our previous update we introduced Device Based Activation as an upgrade to our old attempt based system, which created customer service issues for some vendors having to reactivate download links for customers.

We’ve had varying feedback from the thousands of vendors using our platform- everything from “thank you I’m so tired of reactivating customers” to “ugh this won’t work because I relied on the old system’s behavior in my sales strategy.” There was even some “this is new and I don’t like anything new I hate you now!” sprinkled in, much like we get with most updates.
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