DPD Updates

TGIF!   This is just a quick heads-up reminder all DPD vendors using the DPD MailChimp Integration that they have a planned outage this weekend on October 10 at 1 AM ET.  They anticipate the outage will last from 2 - 4 hours while they upgrade their systems. From the MailChimp Blog: We’re moving a large portion of MailChimp’s brain power to a much bigger, much faster server. Our recent growth, and the rapid uptake of Social Pro (there were more than 50 million social data queries since we made it free 2 weeks ago in v5.3), mean we have to add extra capacity much sooner than anticipated. and... Most of our upgrades are like changing tires on a moving car: we rarely pull over to stop, because your emails, your open tracking, and your list subscriptions never stop. But this upgrade is more like swapping out our engine (and adding...

We've added coupons that only apply to one product! Yes, we can hear you in the back muttering finally. We really don't know why we waited this long to add them. Hop on over to your coupon list and restrict your coupons until your clicking finger gets a cramp. Percentage coupons apply to the subtotal for that product while fixed price coupons only apply that amount off, regardless of the quantity in the cart. We're a little up in the air about the best way to handle fixed price product coupons. Drop us a support ticket or add a comment to this post and we'll make it work however you guys think is best. Also in this update: Google Checkout edit cart and continue shopping URLs are now automatically supported. A few style fixes. The customer list has been cleaned up quite a bit. We were a bit embarrassed about...

The website is dead. Long live the website! It's no secret that our old website was looking a bit... dated. Today at 3pm Eastern we rolled out a spiffy new website to match the spiffy vendor site we released to you guys a couple of months ago. What do you think? Better or way better?

Today's release brings a handful of changes to DPD. Updated Purchase List We've upgraded everyone's purchase list with useful new features: Search for purchases by customer name. Date range presets save you a few seconds every time you use them. Sales total is now displayed at the top of the purchase list. You no longer have to add up all those numbers by hand! Export as CSV feature lets you import the data into Excel or any other program that supports reading CSV files. SSL Everywhere DPD now uses HTTPS (secure HTTP) for every admin and delivery page on the site. This makes DPD 100% safe to use on insecure networks like public WiFi. All existing carts and buy now buttons will be automatically redirected to HTTPS without any intervention on your part. All new buttons will use HTTPS by default. Miscellaneous Changes Added option to email affiliates when posting...

It's been a long week at DPD HQ and we're happy to announce our intrepid developers got out of bed at 6AM to publish a special TGIF update that brings a number of new features that vendors have been asking for: Tangible Goods DPD now supports the sale of simple tangible goods along side your downloadable products. Tangible goods are anything that needs to be delivered. So you're no longer limited to digital files and product codes with DPD. Sell physical copies of your products like CDs or DVDs. Sell company memorabilia like coffee mugs, yoga mats, bobble heads, t-shirts or stationary. Sell lawn furniture, or your custom replicas of Yoda's gimmer stick.* If you have something to sell, DPD can help you sell it. Our focus will always be on digital product delivery (It is our name after all), but we wanted to accommodate those vendors who might want...

Early Tuesday morning Jacob's wife gave birth to a beautiful and healthy baby boy. Jacob is one of the brilliant developers behind DPD and as one of the two original founders wrote most of the code that delivers your products each and every day. Most of you never speak to Jacob, but thats not because he's on vacation. As head of development for DPD he focuses on the technical aspects of the service and keeps everything running under the hood along with our newest partner, Scott. Rest assured though, if you've ever received a reply from me that read "One of the developers checked it out and fixed..." there's a good chance he was the one that solved your problem. He's been my best friend for over 20 years and I've come to think of him as the brother I've never had. I have no doubt he will make a...

Would you like that a bit more blue? How about making the fonts a nice shade of green? Want to scrap what we gave you and start from scratch? Now you can! DPD now supports full cart and delivery page customization for all 20 product or more plans. We have two different ways to do it for your customization pleasure: Basic color and the advanced full template customization. To get started, go to the Look and Feel page of your website profile and open up a template editor: Basic: Color Customization Not so keen on the HTML and CSS? No problem- Go the easy route and pick 11 glorious colors to make the default template look a little more like your site. Advanced: Full Template Customization For the artistic and technical types we offer full template customization so you can customize how your cart and delivery pages look down to...

This morning we published an update that introduced an all new vendor control panel. This fluid, full width admin interface makes better use of widescreen monitors and higher resolution displays- something our server usage stats tell us that most vendors are moving toward. We've also made a couple usability improvements that we hope will make things easier to understand for everyone that uses DPD to sell downloads. New Vendor Control Panel The new vendor control panel is based on the 960gs system and is a fluid, full width template that uses 100% of your monitor instead of the bit in the middle. This gives us the ability to pack more information on a screen, reduces scrolling, and gives us lots of places to stick new features :) Of note in the new admin interface is the side navigation- we've moved all commonly used vendor functions to the left sidebar for...

We've decided that we're going to start making semi-regular "DPD Featured Vendor" product and site review posts here on the DPD Blog for products and services that might be of interest to other DPD vendors. This is good for a few reasons- It gives DPD vendors free reviews, exposure, and promotion to a targeted group of users (download product sellers) It shows people what others are doing with their DPD powered cart It lets DPD show off great looking sites that use DPD It lets DPD vendors provide a coupon or special value to other DPD vendors, saving them money while driving sales DPD Featured Vendors will have a free review posted on the DPD blog as well as a spotlight link in the DPD newsletter. This will be for DPD vendors only and the featured vendors will be picked by the DPD team. Want to be a DPD Featured...

Today we published a small update that tweaked how a couple DPD features worked. None of these affect currently deployed DPD buy buttons or products already set up in the system. ClickBank Updates Previously DPD would only work if a ClickBank sale initiated through a DPD generated buy button. DPD will now work with ClickBank if the sale initiates through either a DPD buy button OR a direct ClickBank link such as itemnumber.username.clickbank.net. This should solve problems going forward with some users using pre-built scripts to power their ClickBank sales sites, and also sales that originate through 3rd party ClickBank directory type sites. Also, ClickBank "thank you" pages provided by DPD now show a relevant error instead of the standard 404 error for dead pages when they are browsed to directly. The page will show an "active" status message when the product is set up and good to go. DPD...