In this update we’ve added a couple often requested features and added improvements to several areas of DPD.

Manual Purchase Creation

Vendors have asked for a way to create a purchase in DPD so that their offline sales, mail order sales, etc. can be accurately reflected in DPD and so they can send product updates to buyers who purchased through other channels. We’ve added a manual purchase creation page where you can build a purchase using existing products or a blank line item (useful for adding a service or other arbitrary charge), billing and shipping information, etc. Manual purchases will not charge the customer, but they will be reflected in your DPD sales stats and reports.

Continue reading DPD Update: Manual Purchase Creation, Edit Existing Purchases, More

Zapier is a tool for non-technical people to easily connect together web apps. Zapier has both free and paid plans based on the number of integrations you set up and the frequency that they’re checked for updates.

What can you do with Zapier and DPD?

Zapier supports over 700 popular CRM, Accounting, communication, and task management tools. You can pass your customer and sales data to any one of these apps using an easy point and click interface, harnessing the power of the DPD API without having to write a single line of code.

Some examples of what you can do with DPD and Zapier

We’ve created a few pre-configuered shared Zaps based on what vendors often request integration with:

But thats not all you can do with DPD and Zapier! DPD can connect and share sales data with any of the 700+ supported apps using custom setups you create using their easy point and click interface. You can learn more by visiting DPD’s page on the Zapbook.

Getting started with DPD and Zapier:

We have a full KB article on Using Zapier with DPD with screenshots and more in the DPD knowledgebase, but here are the basic steps:

1. Go to DPD’s page on the Zapbook
2. You can choose one of our suggested Zaps, or browse the Zapbook for other services to integrate with
3. Connect your DPD account to Zapier using your DPD username and the API key from your DPD profile page
4. Create new Zaps by matching up DPD sales data with fields in your external apps, or use one of our shared Zaps to get started.

Need Help?

You can always send us a support ticket through the support link in your account or DPD knowledgebase. We’ll add more shared Zaps based on your feedback too, so if you have questions about integrating a specific app with DPD using Zapier we’ll be happy to take a look and get a shared Zap set up to help you out!

In this update we’ve added two new often requested features and several bug fixes.

Test Credit Card Processor

We’ve often been asked for a test credit card processor so vendors can privately test their products and stores. In response, we’ve added a test credit card processor, available under Payment Methods in the left menu, that you can activate to complete test checkouts.

When the test card processor is activated it automatically generates and displays a unique card number to be used for testing checkout. This is the only card number that will work with your store. This is to prevent random people from using published test card numbers from Visa, Mastercard, etc. to get your products for free.

We place warnings all over the DPD admin and cart when the test processor is active. Obviously, it goes without saying that when a test processor is active you won’t collect any money for product sales and it should be disabled before going live.

When you are done using the test card processor, simply return to payment methods, edit the test processor, uncheck the “enabled” box, and save to disable.

The test card processor works for older v2 stores, the current responsive cart theme (v3), and subscription stores.

Customer / Purchase Notes

Another often requested feature that we added are customer and purchase notes. Vendors can now enter notes on a specific purchase or customer record and they’ll be recorded in DPD for later reference. Notes are for vendor eyes only- they are not public or published anywhere outside of your account.

Notes entered on a specific purchase are shown on that purchase’s details page.

They are also shown on the customer page, with a link to the purchase they were entered on. Customer notes (unrelated to a specific purchase) can be added on customer page too. They’ll display without a related purchase ID link.

You can edit and delete notes as needed, and you can create as many notes on a customer or purchase as you like. We hope this feature will make customer service tasks and internal tracking easier for vendors.

Other minor changes and bug fixes in this release:

• Tweaked back button behavior on Buy Now buttons
• Improved flow validation during checkout
• Updates to the Stripe gateway
• Fixed a display issue on subscription ended timestamp
• Performance improvements on the send product update feature
• Fixed missing currency display on purchase/list
• Fixed password label on login page for Chrome browser
• Updated cart translations to include previously untranslated strings and new features
• Updated the favicon on the cart
• Performance improvements to the PDF stamper

We’ve just released a completely redesigned product edit page that greatly reduces the length of the form and adds modern features like drag-and-drop image uploading.

Some highlights of the new product edit form:

• Drag-and-Drop image upload. Simply drag your image to the image area, or click to open a standard file dialog to select your image.
• The form now puts the most crucial fields required to configure the product at the top of the page.
• Optional features are now collapsed at the bottom of the form, including the EULA feature and Upsell feature. One click expands these options for editing and they’re automatically expanded if previously configured for the product.
• There is a new sidebar product status / save box that is always with you on the page- no more scrolling to find the save button

New Product Visibility Setting

The new product visibility option replaces “show on cart index”:

• Public – shown on cart index, default state for new products
• Hidden – must have the buy or add-to-cart URL to purchase, not shown on cart index
• Disabled – new status which lets you temporarily disable a product without deleting it

In addition to the “coupons disabled” label we released in the last update, we’ve added new product status indicators throughout DPD so you can tell at a glance what visibility state your product is in by looking at the colored “dot” beside the name.

The indicators are simple- Green for public, Orange for hidden, Red for disabled.

Other changes in this Update:

• paypal ship-to state support
• updated romania vat rate
• removed support for gif images

New Custom Button Sizes

Today we released an update that gives vendors two new button sizes when creating custom buttons using the new button generator. This is based on feedback from vendors who wanted smaller buttons to integrate with their design. There are now small, medium, and large options.

Small:

PURCHASE NOW

Medium:

PURCHASE NOW

Large:

PURCHASE NOW

Close Button on Cart

Also based on feedback from multiple vendors, we added a close button to the DPD cart overlay. Evidently some buyers were confused how to close the cart (you can click anywhere outside of the cart to close). You can view it by clicking any of the buttons above.

These changes were based on customer feedback. We appreciate any feedback you can give us on the new button generator and updated overlay cart- Just drop us a support ticket or a message in live chat to let us know!

Other Changes in this update

• Fixed an issue with the product select box in the admin on the new button page with Firefox browsers
• Fixed an issue with required custom fields not showing the proper field error messages when not completed
• Fixed a cookie issue that affected the overlay cart when using Safari
• Adjusted the z-index of the overlay cart so that sites with other overlay elements always appear below the cart
• Fixed a double-escaping issue on the product bulk edit page that mangled some product names

Based on overwhelming feedback over the years we’re happy to announce the addition of a new custom button generator and product widgets to DPD. In addition, we’ve revamped the button creation process to better organize the new features and options.

Creating Buttons and Widgets

Buttons, widgets, link codes, QR codes, and product choosers are now created from the product list by selecting the Link Code option for a given product.

Grid View: Move your mouse over any product and select link code.

List View: Select Link Code from the product menu.

Both links open the new Link Code page for that product that include all the new options as well as a “Classic Button” option to generate the old style DPD image based buttons for existing sites and PayPal branded buttons.

Custom Button Generator

The new custom button generator gives you the ability to create buttons with customized colors, text, and price display to match your website. DPD will automatically remember your last color choices used for that store so the next time you return it will be pre-configured and ready to go.

Custom buttons can be shown with a price bubble attached in several orientations:

PURCHASE NOW

PURCHASE NOW

Or no price at all:

PURCHASE NOW

Colors and text can also be customized to your heart’s content:

BUY THIS THING!

When creating buttons you can specify if its an instant checkout product, add-to-cart button, link to the DPD hosted product page in your cart, or a view cart / checkout button.

You can also select if you want to use the overlay cart on your web page or make the buttons launch the cart in a new window or specify an override continue shopping URL as with the old buttons.

New Product Widgets:

DPD has added the ability to create 3 new product widgets- Landscape (horizontal), Portrait (vertical), and No Image.

Product widgets include the product description, price, what is included with the product, and optionally the product image. Description text is customizable, and like the buttons all colors and button text are customizable too.

Basic Download Product

Widgets look best with square images at least 400×400 in size. For information what size product images work best with all DPD features, please see our new KB article on Product Image Guidelines.

Old Style Image Buttons

We recognize that you may be currently using the old style image buttons on your website, so they’re still available under the “Classic Button” tab of the new Link Code generator.

Also retained from the old generator is the ability to create product choosers / select boxes, plain link codes, and QR code images.

Other Updates in this Release

• Updated chromeless lightbox for all carts
• Fixed from/reply-to email headers for some emails that were going to spam
• Mark imports for free checkouts as sending the correct email
• Escape values in CSV/XLSX export
• Implemented 3rd party integrations for redirect URLs
• Updated translations for Upsell page.
• Mark tracking html as sent on customer import
• Fixed ActiveCampaign integration throwing warning if given a bad response
• Better Subscribers Export (Added XLSX support, Added Status column to export, Export honors currently selected filters)
• Updated weekly sales email to modern responsive template
• Styled product/edit image upload area
• Add Singapore to Stripe countries

This week DPD staff will be celebrating Thanksgiving with our families in the U.S. on Thursday and Friday.

During the holiday live chat support will not be available on DPD on Thursday (Nov. 26) and Friday (Nov. 27).

For urgent inquiries, we’ll have on-call staff responding to urgent support requests. Pre-sale questions and non-critical issue responses will be delayed.

For the remainder of the holiday weekend (Saturday and Sunday), support staff will be limited in availability. This means response times may be slower, and some non-critical items may be held until the following Monday.

If you have questions please feel free to direct them to our Support Desk.

We wish you and your family a Happy Thanksgiving! We are thankful to have you as DPD users.

DPD has partnered with Moolah to offer credit card processing with no setup fees, no termination fee, and simple 2.89% + $0.29 per trans. processing fees for US and Canadian vendors.

Moolah uses the proven and reliable Authorize.net gateway for processing transactions- just without all the Authorize.net fees.

Moolah Features:

• Integration with DPD to process credit card payments for your store
• Mobile Payments included with free iOS and Android Apps
• Virtual Terminal included to process payments over the phone
• Fraud Prevention Tools
• Automatic Daily Deposits
• Simple, flat rate pricing with no signup or termination fees.

We have a partner page set up with Moolah that explains all the features benefits of using it with DPD as well as pricing information. If you decide Moolah is right for you can you sign up in a few minutes directly from the page.

Adding Moolah to your DPD store is simple- go to Payment Methods in the left menu, activate the Moolah integration, and enter your credentials after creating your Moolah account.