Feature Spotlight

This weekend we released support for subscription areas in DPD. Vendors can now create their own DPD hosted subscriber "mini-site" and sell recurring subscriptions for access to content. This massive update includes many new features enabling you to sell access to scheduled content, drip feed subscriptions, and paid podcasts. Based on the feedback and usage of our limited private beta of subscription stores we have modernized the subscriber area, added numerous features such as search, archives, better subscriber management, and an all new post interface, and changed the layout of content both in the admin and subscriber area for better readability. The Subscriber Area The all new subscriber area features a responsive design like our cart and checkout and layout optimized for readability and the way subscribers consume content. Subscriber Index The subscriber index is the first seen after subscribers log in. It has the first post in full, with...

In this week's update we have a new feature for customers- they can now send their downloads directly to their Dropbox account instead of downloading. This new option, which can be disabled on a per-store basis by the vendor under Store Preferences, adds a "Send to Dropbox" button for each downloadable file on the delivery page: Clicking the Send To Dropbox button will open a dialog that lets the customer log in to their Dropbox account and decide which folder the item should be placed in: Once the buyer tells Dropbox where to save the file thats it! Dropbox will copy the file directly from DPD to the buyer's Dropbox folder and sync with their desktop and devices. We think this will be great for all customers, letting them reliably download files even when they have a poor connection, but Vendors can disable the Send to Dropbox option on a...

We're happy to announce that this morning we released another often requested feature- group support for Mailchimp integrations. As always, vendors can select which mailing list they want to send buyers from a store to. Now, you can also optionally specify group options for subscribers based on store or product. Store Group If you want to use the same mailing list across multiple stores, DPD now lets you put all purchases from a specific store into a Mailchimp group. By using a store group you'll be able to segment sending to your list shared across multiple stores by the store they purchased from. Product Groups We've also added the ability to assign a group to the purchase of specific products. This will allow you to laser focus your campaigns to a specific product or products purchased. Using Mailchimp Groups with DPD: 1. Set up your groups in Mailchimp. 2. Log...

The fine folks at Drip, an email marketing automation company, have written integration instructions for DPD using our notification URL feature. Now without writing a line of code you can now trigger almost any action in Drip when someone makes a purchase through DPD. What makes Drip special? From Drip's website: Most email service providers (ESPs) are built to send email newsletters to a static list of subscribers. Drip can do this as well, but our main differentiation from traditional ESPs is our email automation. This makes it dead simple to move people into and out of multiple autoresponder sequences based on things they do: click certain links, open certain emails, express interest in a topic, etc… Drip is not focused solely on a specific phase of email sending such as marketing or customer retention. We have invested heavily to support the following five stages of email sending: marketing, lead...

Today we released a completely new Google Analytics: Universal Analytics integration for all-in-one tracking of your entire sales process and checkout flow with DPD. The new integration replaces the old Google Analytics eCommerce integration and manually placing code in the Tracking HTML field of your store preferences. The old Analytics Ecommerce integration should be disabled and all Analytics tracking code removed from the Tracking HTML field under store Preferences for accurate tracking results. The new Universal Analytics integration is available for all v2 stores in DPD under the Integrations menu. Note: Uses Universal Analytics This integration uses Universal Analytics using analytics.js, not the old "classic" analytics javascript. The new Universal Analytics updates faster, tracks better, and loads faster on your website. If you are using Classic analytics code on your website you must update your tracking code to use this new integration. New code is provided by the integration for...

Today we released an update to our coupon module that makes it easier to browse and manage coupons, especially when you have created many single use coupon or discount codes. Coupon List Improvements The coupon list now features a more compact table that lists more coupons at once and includes filters so you view specific coupon status, or a specific coupon name. Color Coded Coupon Display We have also color coded the coupon display to show inactive coupons as red and future coupons (which are not yet active but aren't technically "inactive") as yellow. We hope being able to see at a glance the status of a coupon by its color will make it easier to understand what is going on with a specific code (and stop vendors from having to email us asking why their future coupon shows as "inactive" like an expired coupon). Bulk Edit Coupon Status and...

In our first release of the new year we're releasing some often requested shipping and email marketing integrations, as well as a few bug fixes and tweaks that cropped up during the holidays. UPS and FedEx Shipping Calculations Now, in addition to table rate shipping, DPD vendors can enable automatic rate calculation for UPS and FedEx. Setting up UPS Shipping Setting up Fedex Shipping These new options are in addition to our existing simple table rate based shipping calculations, and you can enable any combination for use on your cart. Constant Contract and Sendy Integrations Adding to our ever growing list of stuff we integrate with, we've added Constant Contact and Sendy to our 3rd party mailing list integrations. Email, Event, and Social Media marketing tools and solutions from Constant Contact make it easy to reach, engage, acquire, and retain customers or members. Setting up Constant Contact in DPD Sendy...

Today we've released an often requested feature- custom fields for the DPD cart and checkout. Vendors can now create required or optional custom fields for the cart complete with field type (text, checkbox, select, radio, textarea), label, and description. To see an example of custom fields, add the DPD demo product below: Demo Cart Product: $5.99 Example showing custom required and optional fields The contents of custom fields are displayed with the purchase record in the DPD admin. We'll soon be adding the ability to populate custom fields with input from your website, and send the custom fields via the DPD IPN system to your own scripts and programs. Just like everything else in DPD, creating a custom field is easy with no coding required. Simply go to Custom Fields in the left menu for the store you'd like to add the fields to checkout, click the "Add New Custom...

Several months ago at a vendor's request we added an integration that will allow the DPD checkout work inside Bodega, a marketplace for browsing and discovering new Mac apps. The integration adds the required JavaScript to report sales to Bodega when the sale occurs inside the app. We didn't really tell anyone about it though- it was right in the middle of the new cart and checkout flow launching and we just got covered up. Sorry! We aim to remedy that with this post! What is Bodega? Mac developers have always had challenges getting their great products into the channel, and then being successful once they got there. For Mac developers everywhere, Bodega serves as a perfect addition to their channel and product sales strategies. Bodega provides regular, consistent access to a large and growing audience base directly from Mac desktops around the world. Developers who wish to include their...

Today we've released a new integration that automatically sends transaction information to Google Analytics Ecommerce Tracking.   The integration will pass the following on successful order completion with DPD: DPD purchase ID Order Total Tax and Shipping Totals Items included in the order This will let you track your sales, view traffic sources and referral info for purchases, generate reports, and more in Google Analytics. To set up the integration is easy.   Simply go to Integrations in the left menu, find the Google Analytics Ecommerce Tracking integration in the list, and click the +Add button.  Enter your Google Analytics account number for the website associated with your cart (found on your account home page after logging in to Analytics) and you're in business.  No complicated JavaScript or variables- DPD handles all that automatically. Other Improvements We've also made a change to the way the universal 3rd party tracking integration...