Feature Spotlight

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...

We've just released another update (two days in a row!) that adds some much requested options to the extremely popular PDF Stamping / Buyer Tracking feature. Vendors can now: Enable or Disable Stamping / Buyer Tracking on PDF products Customize the stamp text using available merge vars outlined in our KB article Set the Tracking Page Limit (for if you only want to stamp the title pages, etc.) Set the Font Color to make the text stand out or blend in Set the Font Size - from 6pt all the way up to 20pt! Set the X and Y position of the stamp to put it right where you want it. On Y and Y Positions The X and Y positions are specified in points. There are 72 points in an inch. The new X and Y positions can be tricky- every PDF has an "origin" that the X and...

DPD vendors now have the ability, with one click, to update all previous buyers of a download product with the currently uploaded file. This feature is included with all plans $10/mo or more at no additional cost. On the product detail page (available for each product on the Products list in DPD) you now have a button at the top to "Send Product Update." This button will open a form that looks strangely similar to our "Send Customer Newsletter" feature but has one key difference- When this email is sent to your buyers it will also include a new, reactivated purchase link to the customer so they can download the currently uploaded version of your product file. This feature works for two types of products: Download and Bundle / Combo products that contain a download product. Download Products: Sending an updated download to your customers is very straightforward- Go to...

Today we're happy to announce the release of the iContact integration for DPD. iContact provides a robust array of tools to create, send and track your email marketing campaigns. We're fans of iContact- from our testing they were easy to use and integrate with DPD. They also have a 30 day free trial. Integrating DPD with iContact Integration takes a few steps due to iContact's security, but its all straightforward. iContact requires that you authorize DPD to add subscribers to your account and create a new username and password to use with the API. Please do the following to create your password: Visit http://app.icontact.com/icp/core/externallogin Enter your iContact username and password to log in to iContact. Enter the following for the API-AppId: drXC3zFlGQb17EebiqLSnDNNq2VZxq0A Enter a password. Note: For security reasons, we recommend that this password be different than your iContact password. Click Save. Log in to DPD and visit the integrations...

Integrations! Starting today, everyone will see an Integrations link appear in their left navigation menu. Integrations replace the notify url and notify email feature we've been using to work with AWeber and MailChimp. Today's release includes five integrations: MailChimp, AWeber, GetResponse, URL Notify, and Email Notify. You can enable as many integrations at once as you want. New! GetResponse Integration We've added a GetResponse integration. Enter your API key, choose which campaign to subscribe your customer to, and you're done. Easy. (We love easy.) Upgraded MailChimp Integration The MailChimp integration has been upgraded. You can now select which list to subscribe your customers to and you no longer need to setup anything in your MailChimp account. If you've already setup DPD to work with MailChimp don't worry–everything will continue to work. And More!? We’re not done with adding integrations just yet. We have at least three more planned to be...

Over the past few months we've been working on a new and improved DPD checkout experience for buyers. We went in to the project with a few key goals in mind: To allow for greater customization and integration of the DPD checkout and delivery process with vendor sites Lay the groundwork for more processors, including merchant accounts To build a system where we could add more advanced features that vendors were asking for Today we've published an update that includes the new and improved DPD Cart. This is a total cart rewrite and includes every ecommerce best practice we could cram in to it. Taking information from industry reports, case studies of global ecommerce sites, and more we've done our best to make this the best converting checkout experience possible for your stores. You can preview the default theme for the new cart here: Add to Cart: Demo Product ($0.00)...

We're happy to announce that today we've published an update to DPD that gives vendors the ability to create an embedded MP3 track preview player in their site for MP3 audio products sold and delivered through DPD. The only prerequisite to using the track preview feature is that the product file must be an MP3 audio file that is not contained in a zip or other container. The MP3 preview player is based on the popular and easy to customize AudioPlayer flash based player. Vendors can select any segment of their MP3 product file to play in the preview player, up to 30 seconds in length. Both the player and music sample clip are delivered from DPD servers so you can use this feature on free web hosts and other limited space websites. The mp3 preview uses its own resampled mp3 track and not the actual product file so it...

Only minutes ago we published an update to the DPD servers that revamps the product button creation process and allows you to generate buttons for all products in a store on a single page. We've never really been a fan of having to go to each product individually, open the button creator, selecting the style for each button, etc. so we've done our best to smooth the process out- Now all you need to do is setup your store in DPD, create your products, and click the green Button Creator link to generate button code for all your products at the same time. It's a HUGE time saver for setting up many products at once. Pick a button style and get all the buttons for your entire website in one place! The cart button creator gives you both the view cart / checkout button code and individual add-to-cart button codes...

This week we added a new feature to our website- live chat through Olark. The verdict so far? We love it. We don't often write about other services here, but we're really pleased and think that live chat could be a powerful tool to help our vendors with their sales and conversions so we're going to tell you our experience thus far- Olark has a different approach to live chat than many other services- they use the common XMPP protocol for their chat servers instead of proprietary software. For those not up to date on chat protocols, the XMPP protocol is the same thing that Jabber, Google Talk, Facebook Chat, and a host of other chat services use. XMPP support is built in to every multi-protocol chat client and is a snap to set up. Here at DPD that's pretty important- I'm on Windows 7, Jacob is on a Mac,...

In 2009, comScore reported that online spending increased 5 percent on Cyber Monday to $887 Million. With Black Friday and Cyber Monday being the two busiest online shopping days of the year, we thought it was a great time to share with DPD vendors how to make special, limited coupons to entice sales during these spending frenzies. DPD's coupon controls offer a couple unique features to build excitement and offer a compelling call to action for your buyers that are especially applicable to seasonal sales like Black Friday and Cyber Monday: Use Limits - "50% Off Only To The First 100 Customers!" DPD coupons can be configured to only work for a specified number of uses. This is great for promotions where the first X number of people get a special deal, or to limit the total number of people that can take advantage of the offer. Activation / Deactivation...