DPD Updates

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...

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 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!

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...