DPD Updates

We've been working with MailChimp to get our services hooked up and I'm pleased to announce that DPD integration with MailChimp is now live! Now you can pass customer data from any website profile directly to MailChimp automatically. DPD supports Name, Email, and Address data to be passed and automatically included in your lists (if your list has address fields). We use MailChimp here at DPD for our infrequent customer newsletters and we think they're the best around. Their service is outstanding, their support people are great, and from our integration experience with them I can tell you first hand that it's run by a great group of people. MailChimp offers THE best list management tool on the planet. They support autoresponders and signup forms and have an active user and developer community to help you get going. We really can't say enough good things about MailChimp here at DPD-...

We've released a couple new features: purchase notifications (IPNs) and keycode retrieval. Purchase Notifications DPD now supports sending purchase notifications to a URL of your choice. We send most of the same fields that PayPal sends in their IPN plus a few fields that are specific to our service. Hop on over to the documentation to learn more. We're pretty excited about this feature. It opens up DPD for tighter integration into 3rd party services. We'll be announcing an integration later this week. Keycode Retrieval Hot on the heels of last week's keycode release we've added a branded keycode retrieval page. Link to this page from your website and your customers can retrieve their purchased keycodes without asking you for help. Grab the URL from the "Website Tools" link under your website on your product list. We'd love to hear your feedback on this feature. Fixes and Tweaks Delivery pages...

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: Bulk upload Upload your codes into DPD and we will deliver them. Single key Use one code for all deliveries. 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...

This morning we published a minor update to DPD that added a few new features and tweaked a couple of improvements made in the last update. New features and tweaks included in this update: DPD now displays product images on an improved delivery page designed to give your customers more info about what they're downloading. If there is no product image uploaded, DPD will display a file type icon to give buyers a better understanding of what they're downloading. Here is an example from the DPD Demo Store: If you've uploaded a product image it is now displayed in the DPD product list. We've digitally signed the DPD product uploader for enhanced security. We corrected the button image alt text on free buttons. Revamped sales site to include new features in last update. Automatic subscription emails for failed payments, cancellations, and credit cards that are expiring soon. Fixed problem with...

DPD always strives to make things easier. One of the things that's always bugged us has been that there were two product lists- one for instant and one for cart. That's not easy. It's kinda confusing. It makes features like custom emails and delivery pages nearly impossible. So in this update we set out to fix that and ended up making the largest change in DPD history. This update is five months in the making, with over 125 new features, bug fixes, and tweaks, and over 335,000 new lines of code! So, starting early Wednesday, May 12, you will see a few changes at DPD when you login. We'll start with the major changes. New Product / Website User Interface The product list has been completely overhauled. Gone are the days of two product lists. Everything is now on one page. We've added filters to help you find the product...

One of the things that people like most about DPD is how it looks and how easy it is to use. We're always trying to improve on that, so we've upgraded many form and tool elements in the next DPD update. Here is a preview of the new setup page style (this is from the Vendor Profile page): We think it improves the look and feel of DPD greatly- as a matter of fact, we get mad when we have to use the live DPD site after working with our development version. We hope you'll agree!

Just a quick post to let you guys know whats coming in the next DPD update. This is the largest DPD update in the history of the company with a complete overhaul of the existing code and a whole mess of new features. Over 334,000 new lines of code! Check out a brief list of some of the major new features: Customizable customer emails - #1 Requested Feature AWeber / 3rd party mailing list integration - #2 Requested Feature Google Checkout processor support - #3 Requested Feature Products and customizations grouped by website Unified product list- no more "instant" and "store" products DPD affiliate program overhaul / upgrade User interface improvements throughout New and improved support system and knowledgebase New and improved DPD button generator All these features and more are already in and the update is currently being tested and documented internally. Once testing and documentation is complete we'll...

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...

Just a quick note to let everyone know that the DPD migration to new servers is complete- everything should be faster for everyone! If anyone has any questions or comments please post them here or send us a support ticket- we're keeping a close watch on the new servers through the weekend to make sure no major issues arise.

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...