DPD Updates

Today we've released a minor improvement update for DPD that tweaks existing features and adds a new weekly sales summary email. Weekly Sales Summary Each vendor using DPD will now receive a weekly sales summary email every Monday morning that includes a summary of all sales (and DPD service updates) from the past week. Vendors can disable the summary email in their profile by going Account > Profile in the top menu bar. If you're currently getting the per-sale notification emails from DPD and think you're geting too many but still want to stay on top of sales then the weekly sales report might be right up your alley! As with all new features, we're looking for feedback on the sales report emails. We've already received some very good feedback and we'll continue to gather more, then make updates based on what vendors want to see. Send us a ticket...

Today we've released an often requested feature- custom fields for the DPD cart and checkout. Vendors can now create required or optional custom fields for the cart complete with field type (text, checkbox, select, radio, textarea), label, and description. To see an example of custom fields, add the DPD demo product below: Demo Cart Product: $5.99 Example showing custom required and optional fields The contents of custom fields are displayed with the purchase record in the DPD admin. We'll soon be adding the ability to populate custom fields with input from your website, and send the custom fields via the DPD IPN system to your own scripts and programs. Just like everything else in DPD, creating a custom field is easy with no coding required. Simply go to Custom Fields in the left menu for the store you'd like to add the fields to checkout, click the "Add New Custom...

In this update we're releasing an improvement to PDF stamping and a number of small features and requests designed to save you (and us!) time by giving you the ability to do some new things yourself, without contacting us and waiting for a response. PDF Stamping Page Range PDF stamping now has the ability to specify a start page and end page for the stamp. This is for when you have a pretty cover that you don't want stamped, but want to stamp every other page. Or when you only want to stamp page 37. Or 23-42. You get the picture! To set a page range to stamp, simply enter the start and end pages. Page numbering starts at 1. Leave the end value blank to stamp all pages until end of document, or specify a start and end range stamp only a few pages in the middle. Change Your...

Stripe is by far the easiest credit card processor to get set up with but until today it's only been available for US merchants. Today Stripe added Canada to their list of supported countries Starting today, Stripe is publicly available for use by any individual or business based in Canada. It’s the exact same Stripe that we offer in the US: instant approval, all major card types accepted, the ability to accept payments from anyone in any country, and simple, flat pricing, without monthly fees. They also restated their goal to support businesses and individuals anywhere in the world, which we think is just awesome. You can read more on the Stripe blog: Stripe in Canada!

DPD now supports Sage Pay Direct (formerly Protix), one of the most popular payment processors in the UK. DPD has implimented the Sage Pay Direct method to accept all supported credit cards directly from your DPD cart and checkout. Supported Cards Include: Visa MasterCard Delta Solo Maestro Visa Electron American Express Diner's Club JCB Laser Debit Cards In short, DPD supports all card types supported by Sage Pay Direct. Sage Pay Direct Checkout Flow Sage Pay Direct means your customers check out directly in your DPD cart without going to a hosted checkout flow. It also means you can choose to offer PayPal, 2CO, or any other alternate payment method in addition to direct credit card checkout. Based on the card type entered by your buyers, additional fields (such as the issue date for Maestro cards) will be shown when needed. Using Sage Pay Direct with DPD Adding Sage Pay...

Several months ago at a vendor's request we added an integration that will allow the DPD checkout work inside Bodega, a marketplace for browsing and discovering new Mac apps. The integration adds the required JavaScript to report sales to Bodega when the sale occurs inside the app. We didn't really tell anyone about it though- it was right in the middle of the new cart and checkout flow launching and we just got covered up. Sorry! We aim to remedy that with this post! What is Bodega? Mac developers have always had challenges getting their great products into the channel, and then being successful once they got there. For Mac developers everywhere, Bodega serves as a perfect addition to their channel and product sales strategies. Bodega provides regular, consistent access to a large and growing audience base directly from Mac desktops around the world. Developers who wish to include their...

Today we've released a new integration that automatically sends transaction information to Google Analytics Ecommerce Tracking.   The integration will pass the following on successful order completion with DPD: DPD purchase ID Order Total Tax and Shipping Totals Items included in the order This will let you track your sales, view traffic sources and referral info for purchases, generate reports, and more in Google Analytics. To set up the integration is easy.   Simply go to Integrations in the left menu, find the Google Analytics Ecommerce Tracking integration in the list, and click the +Add button.  Enter your Google Analytics account number for the website associated with your cart (found on your account home page after logging in to Analytics) and you're in business.  No complicated JavaScript or variables- DPD handles all that automatically. Other Improvements We've also made a change to the way the universal 3rd party tracking integration...

Recently we've had a lot of requests to integrate various 3rd party conversion and affiliate tracking systems with DPD. These integrations use either a bit of JavaScript or a HTML tracking pixel image on the confirmation page of your store to track sales. Well, we've just released a universal 3rd party HTML / JavaScript Conversion Tracking integration! This integration will allow you to place any 3rd party conversion or affiliate tracking code on your store's delivery / order confirmation page. The integration also includes variables for order, customer, and store values so you can pass information like the order total, purchase ID, or customer info in to your tracking code. The integration is easy to use: 1. Log in to your DPD account 2. Go to Integrations in the left menu 3. Add the "3rd Party Conversion Tracking Code" integration to your store 4. Name the integration and paste your...

It has been requested from several vendors that we add a feature to prevent problem buyers from making purchases at a store. The scenarios given to us were buyers who repeatedly made purchases then did chargebacks through PayPal or other processors. Today we released the buyer blacklist feature that lets you block these problem customers. For PayPal Payments Standard, 2CheckOut, or AlertPay transactions DPD doesn't know who the buyer is until their payment verification is returned to us after they've paid along with their name, email, and address if applicable. This presents a unique problem for us, because for half the transactions that go through DPD we don't know who the buyers are until after they've paid. To work within this limitation, the blacklist works two different ways depending on what payment method is used on any given store: For Credit Card Methods (Stripe, Authorize.net, etc.): DPD will block any...

Today we've published a maintenance release for DPD that adds a few feature improvements and fixes and squashes a couple minor bugs. PayPal Payments Standard Improvements: PayPal now uses the shipping address already collected from DPD's shipping form to pre-populate the PayPal checkout. This saves your customers some typing and shortens the checkout, improving cart abandonment rates. We've also corrected a bug that sometimes resulted in PayPal dropping a coupon discount when DPD tax rules are enabled. This was a rare thing that only affected a handful of vendors, but it's fixed now. VAT and Business Name Fields added to Shipping / Tax Address Form: We've added two new fields that are completely optional to the shipping / tax address form- VAT ID and Business Name. Some vendors, when collecting VAT, are required to collect the VAT ID and business name for tax purposes. You can now enable these fields...