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.
We’ve released a change to the marketing opt-in feature based on vendor feedback we’ve received since the feature release this week.
To break it down and make it easy to understand:
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.
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.
Continue reading New Feature: Marketing Opt-In for GDPR Compliance
The European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will come into effect on May 25, 2018. This regulation changes how companies use and process the personal data of European users, including vendors outside of the EU that sell to EU buyers.
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.
Continue reading Critical Update: Payza.com seized by DOJ, ending support immediately
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.
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.
Continue reading Sell Downloads on a WIX Free website with DPD
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.
Continue reading Outlook.com’s Silly New Inbox and Customer Emails
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.
Continue reading DPD Update: Updates to Device Based Activation based on vendor feedback- we’re listening!
Today we’ve started rolling out a change to how DPD authorizes downloads for buyers. It’s a significant change and one that will lead to massive decreases in customer support requests from your customers asking for download reactivation.
That said, new can be scary so here is a breakdown of whats changing:
Continue reading DPD Update: New Device Based download authorization… No more Reactivations!
