DPD Updates

Over the past few months we've been working on a new and improved DPD checkout experience for buyers. We went in to the project with a few key goals in mind: To allow for greater customization and integration of the DPD checkout and delivery process with vendor sites Lay the groundwork for more processors, including merchant accounts To build a system where we could add more advanced features that vendors were asking for Today we've published an update that includes the new and improved DPD Cart. This is a total cart rewrite and includes every ecommerce best practice we could cram in to it. Taking information from industry reports, case studies of global ecommerce sites, and more we've done our best to make this the best converting checkout experience possible for your stores. You can preview the default theme for the new cart here: Add to Cart: Demo Product ($0.00)...

We're happy to announce that today we've published an update to DPD that gives vendors the ability to create an embedded MP3 track preview player in their site for MP3 audio products sold and delivered through DPD. The only prerequisite to using the track preview feature is that the product file must be an MP3 audio file that is not contained in a zip or other container. The MP3 preview player is based on the popular and easy to customize AudioPlayer flash based player. Vendors can select any segment of their MP3 product file to play in the preview player, up to 30 seconds in length. Both the player and music sample clip are delivered from DPD servers so you can use this feature on free web hosts and other limited space websites. The mp3 preview uses its own resampled mp3 track and not the actual product file so it...

We've published an update to the live servers that brings several new features and improvements to the vendor admin- Alertpay Upgraded to a Cart Processor Vendors can now use Alertpay for both instant checkout and multi-item cart checkout. Alertpay can be used alongside Google Checkout or PayPal or replace them as the cart processor. New Payment Method Configuration DPD has an all new payment method configuration page that allows vendors to select any combination of compatible cart processors. This will also allow us to add many more payment processors in the future, including merchant accounts like Authorize.net (Coming Soon™). New Store Wizard When creating a new store vendors are now guided by an easy setup wizard that will collect the minimum information required to create and activate a store. After activation, advanced options like notification URL setup and download security control tweaks are available. We hope this will end the...

We've just published a release that includes a number of new features and Interface Improvements: 1. Download Tracking We've added real-time tracking of customer downloads for all new purchases made through DPD. In addition to showing the Buyer IP, DPD now displays the download IP, download date/time, the amount of data transfered/downloaded, the user-agent of the downloader (Browser / OS version) and if the download is complete to the best of our ability to determine. 2. Pulldown Builder / Product Chooser / Super Product Choose-O-Matic 9000 Many vendors have asked us for a way to create a dropdown menu from multiple products. We've added this in to our Button Creator page- Click on the small Pulldown Builder link, select your products and button, drag them around to whatever order you like, and copy and paste the code to create easy pulldowns. 3. Interface Improvements We've been moving DPD toward a...

Update April 12, 2011 We've just received word that PayPal has fixed this problem. This is not a DPD error and there is nothing we can do to fix it from our end. PayPal currently displays the following error when trying to return customers who checkout using a credit card without a PayPal account to the DPD download page: Sorry — your last action could not be completed If you were making a purchase or sending money, we recommend that you check both your PayPal account and your email for a transaction confirmation after 30 minutes. If you came to this page from another website, please return to that site (don't use your browser's Back button) and restart your activity. This PayPal bug does not pertain only to DPD- it is a system-wide PayPal bug and is affecting all checkouts using a credit card for every shopping cart, delivery service...

Only minutes ago we published an update to the DPD servers that revamps the product button creation process and allows you to generate buttons for all products in a store on a single page. We've never really been a fan of having to go to each product individually, open the button creator, selecting the style for each button, etc. so we've done our best to smooth the process out- Now all you need to do is setup your store in DPD, create your products, and click the green Button Creator link to generate button code for all your products at the same time. It's a HUGE time saver for setting up many products at once. Pick a button style and get all the buttons for your entire website in one place! The cart button creator gives you both the view cart / checkout button code and individual add-to-cart button codes...

Customize Your Continue Shopping URL The button generator has been upgraded with a place to customize the continue shopping URL. If you've been having trouble with the continue shopping button or simply want to customize where the button goes, this is the upgrade you've been waiting for! Upgraded Purchase CSV We've also released a much-needed upgrade to the purchase history CSV file. The format has been completely overhauled and now includes the following fields: Purchase ID, Date, Product ID, Product Name, Product Price, Discount, Commission, Net Sale, Currency, Status, Coupon, Website, Customer. Bug Fixes The cart code has been upgraded to enhance compatibility with Internet Explorer 8. Thank you to everyone who reported odd rendering. The cart code has been updated to work correctly when included multiple times on one page.

We've published a new feature today that many vendors have been requesting-  Buyer IP logging and Geo-Location. DPD now records the IP address of the buyer with each transaction and the information is available on the Purchase Detail page, through the DPD IPN system, and for use on delivery page templates through its own merge tag. We also use the IP to geo-locate the buyer and display their location on a world map on the Purchase Detail page.  This can help give you an idea where you buyers are coming from (and also it just looks cool). The technical details: Buyer IP Address IPN field value: ip_address DPD IPN Notification URL Documentation >> Buyer IP Delivery Page Template Merge Var:   Customizing Your Cart Checkout and Delivery Pages Documentation >>

Happy new year! We have just released a few upgrades to DPD. URLs can now be delivered via the key delivery product type. No configuration is needed on your part. Simply enter a key that starts with "http://" or "https://" and we will link to that URL on the delivery page. We have added an option to override PayPal shipping settings and always ship a product for free. Bug fixes: Fixed a problem with delivered filename getting corrupted when using filenames with special characters. Fixed a problem with the FTP drop box not working when the filename has a "#" character in it. Fixed a problem activating ClickBank combo products when delivered through the thankyou page.

Instant Payment Notifications (IPNs) are key to how DPD processes and validates PayPal orders. We receive an IPN for each successful purchase that triggers an email and activates the buyer's purchase. To make sure we are receiving an actual IPN from PayPal to prevent unauthorized download, DPD contacts and verifies each IPN with PayPal. We either get a VALID or INVALID response. In the past week or so we noticed a spike in failed IPN verifications from PayPal due to the continued rollout of PayPal's new site. These sort of breakages aren't uncommon with PayPal and they're reasonably quick to address these types of issues. We normally don't have to make any changes on our end before PayPal rolls out a fix. This time was different- There was no fix or even mention of the issue on PayPal's site and failed IPN verifications were piling up. So we dug into...