Feature Spotlight

When someone clicks the link in your newsletter, buys your ebook and checks out with DPD, Google Analytics 4 should say the newsletter made that sale. Until this week it often didn't. The sale showed up as "(direct)", or as a referral from dpdcart.com or PayPal, and the campaign that brought the buyer in got no credit. We've rebuilt DPD's Google Analytics 4 integration to fix that, and a few other things we found along the way. It's the biggest change to it since we moved every cart to GA4 in 2023. Read the setup guide → Sales Credited to the Right Campaign Your website and your DPD store live on different domains, so GA4 used to see two visitors: one on your site and a new one on your store. Now DPD's script (the one in your buttons, widgets and cart components) carries the visitor along each time a...

For years, DPD's Zapier app did one thing: start a Zap when someone bought from you. This week we shipped a big update to it. It now has four triggers, four searches and an action that emails a buyer their purchase again. See DPD on Zapier → New Triggers A trigger starts a Zap. Alongside New Purchase, you can now start one with: New Customer: when someone buys from any of your stores for the first time. It's a good fit for adding people to your CRM, since repeat buyers don't come through twice. New Subscriber: when someone joins one of your subscription (membership) stores. You get their email, their plan's price and their next payment date. New Product: when you add a product to a store. Post it to your Slack, add it to a spreadsheet of your catalog, or let your newsletter tool know. Searches Searches find something...

DPD's developer documentation has a new home at docs.getdpd.com. If you've ever wanted to customize how DPD looks on your site, or pull your sales into your own tools, this is where to start. Our old API reference hadn't been touched in years, so we rebuilt it from scratch, checked every page against the code, and added docs for the new cart components while we were at it. Visit docs.getdpd.com → Try the API in Your Browser The API docs now have a console where you can send a real request to any endpoint with your own account and see the answer, before you write a line of code. That's the console up top, listing our demo store's storefronts. Here's how to try it: Open docs.getdpd.com/api/try and pick an endpoint, like List storefronts. Click Test Request. Enter your DPD username, and the API password from your profile in the DPD...

You can now put your products, add to cart buttons and a full cart right on your own website, with no iframe or popup. Shoppers browse, add items, change quantities and apply a coupon without ever leaving your page. When they're ready to pay, they go to your DPD hosted checkout like they always have. The fastest way to see it is to try it. We rebuilt our demo page on the new components, so you can add a few products, try a coupon and restyle everything live: Try the live demo at getdpd.com/demo → See It on a Real Store We also built a whole store with it. Cast & Crumb is a made-up cooking shop, a plain static site on GitHub Pages. Every product card, buy button and the cart on it come from these components, styled to match the shop, and checkout goes to the store's own...

This week we're rolling out a major visual and usability overhaul across the DPD vendor control panel! Over the past few months, we've been working hard to give DPD a cleaner, faster, and more modern interface that makes running your online store smoother every day. Here is a breakdown of what's new and what to look for when you log in. Manage Your Store From Your Phone The biggest change in this release is one you'll notice the moment you log in on a phone or tablet: the DPD vendor admin is now fully mobile-friendly. We've always supported mobile devices, but with this update we've completely rethought the mobile experience. We've gone through the entire control panel, page by page, and made sure that every element works on any screen size. Works on any screen size: Layouts automatically reflow to fit phones, tablets, and desktops. No more pinching, zooming, or...

Enhance the security of your account with Two-Factor Authentication available now on your DPD account. Two-factor authentication (2FA) is designed to make sure that you're the only person who can access your account. It does this by requiring a code from an authentication app on your phone or computer to complete log in.  Two-factor authentication methods rely on a user providing their account password as the first factor and a second, different factor. In the case of DPD the second factor is a passcode generated by your authenticator app. Two-factor authentication adds an additional layer of security to the authentication process by making it harder for attackers to gain access to a person's devices or online accounts. Even if your password is hacked, a password alone is not enough to pass the authentication check. Setup is straightforward: Log in to DPD. Go to the User Menu in the top right...

We know we've been a little quiet lately on the update front, but thats because we've been working on big things! We've released a major upgrade for Stripe for product stores that adds Apple Pay, Google Pay, Link, and more to the DPD checkout. We've also added enhanced order and account management features in the DPD admin. A Refined (more) Mobile Friendly Payment Flow All modern themes for the DPD checkout have always been built for mobile, but we've made it even better! In addition to fixing some spacing and minor style inconsistency issues on mobile checkout, gone is the old payment method selection for PayPal + Card methods. Now we display a mobile friendly PayPal button for PayPal Standard / Express above the card form. This works great when paired with the next new feature.... Upgraded Stripe supports Apple Pay and Google Pay! Once you've upgraded stripe your DPD...

In today's update we've added the ability for vendors to create sub-user accounts for employees or assistants to help manage your products and/or customer service functions. Currently sub-users are supported for product stores only. Vendors create sub-users from their profile menu: Sub-Users have two available permissions: Customer Service: Includes access to Customers, Orders, and Coupons modules. Product Management: Includes access to the Product modules and can edit all aspects of products (or delete them). Can also send product updates, add product keys, replace uploaded files, etc. Sub-users can have one of the above permissions or both. Sub-users will never have access to your store settings, payment processors, integration setup, account billing information, etc. Managing Sub-Users: Vendors can activate or deactivate sub-users, edit sub-user account information (email, password), and change permissions at any time. Sub-users will see a different dashboard view based on their permissions. We encourage any vendor looking to add sub-users...

Hi vendors, friendly online support guy Chase here, just wanting to put a spotlight on a few features we offer that I think many of you will appreciate if you don’t already use them. Existing Customer Login Buttons We’ve been rolling with the new download system for over a year now, but one thing I don’t see many vendors using is our Customer Portal login button. This is a button option you can post on your website or wherever to give existing customers easy access to all their purchases and downloads from your store.  It’s available in regular link format and all of our other button types. Just pick Customer Portal for the Cart Action field on any DPD product button code page to get it, it’s not a product specific option. Filtered Purchase Record Exports I’ve been having quite a few vendors writing in to our support desk lately...

Last week we warned told people that we were releasing a totally redesigned admin and today we made good on our threat promise! After hours of annoying database updates and migrations and a bunch of boring stuff that nobody really cares about we're happy to share that the upgrade is complete and live! We thought about showing you a bunch of screenshots of the new admin, but you can just log in and see it for yourself! Instead, here are some tips to help you get acclimated to the new layout: New Admin Navigation Tips The new admin has a simplified main navigation and we've reduced the 25+ items down to logical "modules" for each section. All the modules follow the this same design pattern: ModulePrimary action button and secondary action menu on the module "index" page For example, to do anything with a product (create, edit, delete, get button...