Feature Spotlight

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...

Recently we've had a lot of requests to integrate various 3rd party conversion and affiliate tracking systems with DPD. These integrations use either a bit of JavaScript or a HTML tracking pixel image on the confirmation page of your store to track sales. Well, we've just released a universal 3rd party HTML / JavaScript Conversion Tracking integration! This integration will allow you to place any 3rd party conversion or affiliate tracking code on your store's delivery / order confirmation page. The integration also includes variables for order, customer, and store values so you can pass information like the order total, purchase ID, or customer info in to your tracking code. The integration is easy to use: 1. Log in to your DPD account 2. Go to Integrations in the left menu 3. Add the "3rd Party Conversion Tracking Code" integration to your store 4. Name the integration and paste your...

It has been requested from several vendors that we add a feature to prevent problem buyers from making purchases at a store. The scenarios given to us were buyers who repeatedly made purchases then did chargebacks through PayPal or other processors. Today we released the buyer blacklist feature that lets you block these problem customers. For PayPal Payments Standard, 2CheckOut, or AlertPay transactions DPD doesn't know who the buyer is until their payment verification is returned to us after they've paid along with their name, email, and address if applicable. This presents a unique problem for us, because for half the transactions that go through DPD we don't know who the buyers are until after they've paid. To work within this limitation, the blacklist works two different ways depending on what payment method is used on any given store: For Credit Card Methods (Stripe, Authorize.net, etc.): DPD will block any...

We've released a much requested feature- the ability to make buyers accept an End-User License Agreement (EULA) / Terms and Conditions before an item can be added to their cart. This is a feature of the new cart and checkout, so you'll need to upgrade if you haven't already done so (it's easy and free!). Adding an EULA to a Product The new EULA feature is per product. To add an EULA to any product simply create a new or edit an existing product and enable the End-User License Agreement feature. Paste your EULA in to the text box and save your product. This will display the EULA and require the buyer to hit the accept button before the product can be added to their cart. For instant checkout products, the EULA will be displayed for acceptance before the buyer goes to their processor specific checkout. Customizing the EULA Page...

Today we're pleased to release upgraded 2Checkout (2CO) support to a full cart processor for our new cart and checkout. 2Checkout.com (2CO) is a worldwide leader in payments and e-commerce services. 2CO powers online sellers with a global platform of payment methods and a world-class fraud prevention service on secure and reliable PCI-compliant payment pages. 2Checkout’s payments platform bundles a gateway and merchant account into one single offering with no need to contract with a merchant bank or manage separate agreements. You can accept Visa, MasterCard, AMEX, Discover, PayPal, Diner’s Club, JCB and Debit cards (in the U.S.) from one solution through 2Checkout’s fully secure hosted payment pages. In addition, 2CO provides call center support, full SSL certification, and the system is translatable in 15 languages and 26 international currencies for buyers and sellers in over 200 countries. Use promo code DPD2CO for a full waiver of 2Checkout's $49 signup...

This is going to be a long post, but we've never released an update like this before! Digital Product Delivery was started as a simple instant checkout and delivery system for single, standalone products. As we grew, customers requested features and we bolted them on as well as we could, but after a couple years we were in a corner. We had a place where we wanted DPD to be, but we couldn't get there with our current cart. About 8 months ago we sat down and looked at what we needed to do to make Digital Product Delivery the best platform selling and delivering downloads, keycodes, and tangible goods. There were no sacred cows- we decided that whatever we had to do we were going to do it, even if we had to rewrite the whole whole darn thing. Well, we did. We're pleased to announce the all new...