More New Admin Updates based on Vendor Feedback!

  • Jason@DPD
  • January 29, 2019
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We’ve received feedback from many vendors about the new admin and its been mostly positive, but a few have asked us for tweaks here and there to make their life easier. In this update we have another round of minor changes to make things easier for everyone!

Made it easier to disable Integrations and Payment Methods

Previously form validation (making sure all the fields were filled out correctly) required API keys, etc. filled out in integrations and payment methods even if you were just trying to disable them on your store.

This wasn’t ideal, for example if you wanted to remove your credentials from DPD, so we made it where you can save them them as disabled with blank fields. If the integration is enabled you still need to fill out the required fields to make the integration or payment method work (because why would we save an active integration in a non-working state?) but now you can disable them and leave fields blank.

Mobile Layout Tweaks

With the new admin we’re trying to move the entire DPD admin to a mobile friendly layout that works on phones, iPads, etc. We’re about 80% there (some of the data tables are big and we’re working on getting them mobile friendly) and we’ve done some tweaks to button layout, etc. so that everything lines up and wraps correctly on mobile devices.

Specifically, we’ve fixed the button layout for saving pages on mobile, which was a little wonky, to use “block” buttons on small devices:

Easy clicky buttons on the small screens, natch.

This update wins the award for “the most work that nobody will notice” with 482 changes just to make buttons look a little different.

More Key Product Improvements

Vendors use DPD to deliver product keys it for a multitude of uses- delivering activation keys, phone card codes, gift card codes, keyed URLs as unique links, coupon codes, and all sorts of other things.

In the last update we added a key count display to the product list to make it easier for key sellers to see how much key inventory they had left:

Color Coded Key Inventory display on product list

This was great, but for vendors who deliver the same key to every customer or keys generated at an external URL or with Aquatic Prime it was annoying- it would show a red 1 or 0. So, we fixed that by adding different icons for “deliver the same key to everybody” and external methods and added helpful tooltips to tell you whats going on with product keys:

“Infinity key” for deliver the same to everyone and a “server key” for external generation!

Per Product Key Inventory Warning Threshold

We also added a per-product low key warning threshold, so you can manually override DPD’s sales velocity based warnings and set your own limit:

This field is optional- you can leave it blank or 0 to use DPD’s built in sales velocity based 7 day warning threshold.

Quick Actions Menu added to Product List

Based on popular demand, we’ve added a quick actions menu to the product list so you can jump right to a product’s specific task:

Jump right to what you need with the new Quick Actions menu.

You can still click on the product name or View button to see product detail and see everything about a product including stats, past product updates, existing fulfillments and price points, etc. but hopefully this makes basic tasks for people that know exactly what they want to do quicker and easier!

Other Minor Tweaks and Changes in this update:

  • Fixed the expired account message on the Dashboard when you no longer have a DPD subscription
  • Fixed a misplaced form tag on vendor/manageaffiliate
  • Made the Zapier link on integrations open in a new tab/window
  • Removed some dummy text that made it in to production on one obscure tooltip on one page that we’re pretty sure nobody ever noticed.
  • Depreciated 2CheckOut because even though they account for 0.059% of checkouts they are responsible for waaaaaay more than that in support requests, they have 3 different systems and it’s a crap shoot which one people are on, and their support desk will only send us canned responses.

New Admin Updates Based On Vendor Feedback

  • Jason@DPD
  • January 10, 2019
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We’ve had mostly positive feedback from vendors since launching the new admin earlier this week, but there have been a few bugs and a couple user interface issues we needed to address. We’ve been continuously releasing updates this week as things pop up, so here is a rollup of changes we’ve made:

More Transparent Product Key Inventory

A vendor wrote in and told us how important it was to be able to see available key inventory from the product list and suggested some changes to make his and all “key sellers” lives easier so we implemented them!

For products that deliver product keys, we now display the available key number with a color coded icon for inventory status on the product list and product detail page:

Red icon for no keys, yellow for less than 10 keys, and green for more than 10!

Easier to Find “Send Free Download” button

Before the redesign there used to be a button on the product detail page to send a free download to someone. We’ve received a lot of tickets asking where that went (we put it in the action menu button at the top) so to make life easier for everyone we’ve added the button back to the product detail page.

Now you can send free downloads like a madman without going in the menu!

Other Bug Fixes and Minor Changes

  • Fixed some buggered CSS in the affiliate mini-site from the update
  • Moved export button on reports pages to the top
  • Added some back buttons to purchase transaction detail pages
  • Fixed a bunch of minor styling inconsistencies on various pages
  • Fixed the send free download “success!” page style
  • Fixed an issue with affiliate link codes not generating properly
  • Increased global text size based on vendor feedback
  • Increased global gray text contrast based on vendor feedback
  • Fixed the affiliate / vendor mode switcharoo.
  • Made the product “bulk edit” page search field label more descriptive of its capabilities (hint: it searches everything on the page)

New Feature: Keycode Delivery and other fixes

  • Jacob@DPD
  • June 3, 2010
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This morning we pushed a couple new features out to DPD. We’re working hard to make DPD the best we can. Please let us know if there is a feature you’d like to see in an upcoming release.

Key Code delivery

DPD now supports delivering key codes (serial keys, product activation keys). We support three generation methods:

  1. Bulk upload Upload your codes into DPD and we will deliver them.
  2. Single key Use one code for all deliveries.
  3. URL Setup a URL on your server and DPD will request a new code for every sale.

Keycode Feature Information / Instructions in the DPD Knowledgebase

We’re also evaluating adding some of the more popular key generators. Let us know which one you use.

Fixes and tweaks in this release

  • You can now activate a pending purchase.
  • Added an alternative uploader for customers unable to use the Java uploader.
  • We allow recording a price for all products. Previously, products in websites that used Clickbank or PayDotCom as the payment processor did not include a price in DPD since we are unable to control the product’s price. You can now store a price for reporting purposes. DPD does not validate this price as with other payment processors.
  • Fixed a bug that caused the dashboard sales graph to report low numbers.
  • Fixed a bug that caused the free vs paid purchase stats to be incorrect.