Feature Spotlight

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...

Why does it seem like we only update on Fridays now? This morning we released an update that brings enhanced security options to PDF products. In addition to PDF Buyer Tracking / Stamping that marks each page of the PDF with the buyer’s information to discourage sharing, DPD can now automatically encrypt your PDF documents to prevent tampering and minimize plagiarism and abuse. Using the new feature, DPD will automatically encrypt your PDF document to lock future editing. You also have the option to prevent printing as well as prevent copying of the PDF contents (disables copying and pasting of the PDF text). You can use the new PDF encryption feature with or without PDF Buyer Tracking / Stamping. When you use both, DPD will automatically add your tracking stamp to the pages you specify, then encrypt the PDF to prevent removal. Like all DPD features, setting up PDF encryption...

In order to provide expanded product storage space to DPD as well as provide for faster, more reliable downloads for vendors we're in the process of moving product storage to Amazon S3, a distributed content delivery network. Amazon "Simple Storage Service" (S3) is a highly scalable, reliable, fast data storage and content delivery network that uses the same infrastructure Amazon uses to run its own global network of web sites. What does this mean for DPD Vendors? More reliability. Using a unqiue caching strategy DPD will maintain and sync local and S3 copies of files to prevent any network or hardware related issues. This will also reduce load on the DPD server, providing better service to DPD users. More download speed. Instead of customers competing for bandwidth on the DPD servers when there is high demand, now every customer will download at the full speed of their internet connection from...

We've just released the DPD-Cart plugin for Wordpress. The DPD-Cart plugin allows you to easily integrate a DPD Storefront with your Wordpress blog. It features a View Cart / Checkout sidebar Widget and easy product insertion in to posts and pages with no copying and pasting of button code. Get the plugin and more details from the download page: DPD-Cart Plugin Our friends at Inspired Mag have also created a tutorial with step-by-step instructions and screenshots showing how to get up and running with the DPD-Cart plugin. Check out: Start Selling Downloads from your Wordpress Blog in 5 Minutes

DPD offers a PDF buyer tracking feature that automatically marks PDF products with the buyer Name, Email, and Transaction ID. This helps to prevent sharing sharing of your file because people have an aversion to mass distribution of their personally identifiable information. Well, everyone except for that LifeLock Guy and it didn't turn out too well for him. The best part about PDF Buyer Tracking? It's turned on with a single checkbox during product setup! There are only a few conditions to using the PDF Buyer Tracking feature: You must have a DPD Paid account plan- this is a premium feature not available to free accounts! Your product file must be a single PDF upload and not contained in a ZIP, RAR, ISO, or any other archive file. Your PDF must be a Acrobat 5 compatible file. Your PDF must not have an edit password set in the PDF file....

Now entire storefronts can be affiliate enabled! Unlike standalone product affiliate programs that can be used for individual "buy now" products, the new DPD Storefront Affiliate System allows for all products sold through an affiliate enabled storefront to be tracked through the DPD affiliate system. No more individual signup links, and no changes to your current DPD "add to cart" or "checkout" button code! The new DPD Storefront Affiliate system can be enabled for any storefront by setting a few simple options for the storefront- affiliate enable your entire website in just minutes! The storefront affiliate system is a full featured affiliate program manager for your store- Once affiliates sign up to promote your products they are given a special tracking hoplink that credits them with any sales generated by the traffic they refer. And, because the DPD system allows for multiple storefronts on a single DPD account vendors can...