Integrations

We've received feedback from many vendors about the new admin and its been mostly positive, but a few have asked us for tweaks here and there to make their life easier. In this update we have another round of minor changes to make things easier for everyone! Made it easier to disable Integrations and Payment Methods Previously form validation (making sure all the fields were filled out correctly) required API keys, etc. filled out in integrations and payment methods even if you were just trying to disable them on your store. This wasn't ideal, for example if you wanted to remove your credentials from DPD, so we made it where you can save them them as disabled with blank fields. If the integration is enabled you still need to fill out the required fields to make the integration or payment method work (because why would we save an active integration...

This week we've released the all-new DPD Cart plugin for Wordpress.  The DPD Cart Plugin 2.0 is available for automatic installation in the Wordpress plugin directory and adds the following features to your Wordpress site:  Adds the required DPD javascript to the blog header to power the Lightbox cart (optional) and product widgets. Adds a button to post and page visual editors to insert DPD buttons in your content. Adds a store page and individual product pages to your Wordpress site.   Installation instructions are provided in the Wordpress Plugin Directory so we won't repeat them here, but here are some important notes: Setup, Product and Price Point Visibility Once you enter your API Username and Key from your DPD Profile Page and save it the plugin will pull your list of stores from your DPD account.   You can select any store to use with your Wordpress site.  ...

We often get asked how to integrate DPD with a WIX free website. WIX is a popular What You See Is What You Get (WYSIWYG) website editor because it has a free plan, you don't have to know how to use HTML or CSS to make a website, and they have commercials on cable TV. This post will show you step-by-step how to use the DPD cart with WIX's built in buttons. You can use DPD with a WIX free site to sell downloads, keycodes, and tangible goods. However, there are some limitations: 1. No Overlay Cart. Because WIX sandboxes everything in iframes, using the Lightbox / Overlay of the DPD cart results in the Lightbox opening in that iframe, being unusable. 2. No Fancy Buttons or Widgets WIX free sites do not have a way to add javascript to the site header or footer so our cart.js that powers...

We're happy to announce our new beta app for Zapier that allows you to pass your DPD sales data to the 500+ apps that Zapier supports. Zapier is a 3rd party service that serves as a "middleman" and connects web apps using an easy point and click interface. Zapier has both free and paid plans based on the number of integrations you set up and the frequency that they're checked for updates. Because this is a new app and in beta you'll need to follow the link below to add the DPD app to your Zapier account: Add DPD App to Zapier What can you do with Zapier and DPD? Zapier supports over 500 popular CRM, Accounting, communication, and task management tools. You can pass your customer and sales data to any one of these apps using an easy point and click interface, harnessing the power of the DPD API...

We're happy to announce that DPD is now integrated with ConvertKit, a powerful email marketing platform for bloggers, eBook marketing, and eLearning / courseware. ConvertKit has unique automation features to send series of drip emails based on powerful automation rules, as well as support for sending one-off broadcasts to subscribers on demand. They also have a series of pre-made automation blueprints with sample automation flows to get you started quickly. DPD will automatically send your store's customers to ConvertKit upon completion of checkout and tag the subscriber with your ConvertKit tag of choice. This lets you follow up on your sales with a series of marketing, training, or support information. Add The ConvertKit integration to your store: 1. Log in to DPD and go to Integrations in the left menu 2. Add the ConvertKit integration to your store 3. Log in to ConvertKit and go to your Account page. Copy...

DPD now integrates with ActiveCampaign and passes customer info from your DPD store to the ActiveCampaign list of your choice when a purchase is made. Setup only takes a couple minutes and works through ActiveCampaign's API method for reliability and ease of use. Other (minor) Changes in this update: Fixed a sort order bug affecting the country list on older carts Moved subtotal above the discount in v3 carts Fixed formatting on user/support page. Added select-to-text input on billing state inputs

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 new purchase action that allows you to deliver a file from your own S3 bucket. This is an often requested feature for advanced users only. This is an advanced feature that will cost you money. Have no illusions about this feature– Its complicated to set up, requires that you generate and enter your AWS credentials and file URLs, and will cost you money in addition to your DPD monthly fee. This is only for advanced users only. You are responsible for all storage and bandwidth/delivery fees incurred through Amazon S3 for files delivered from your S3 account. The vast majority of users will use DPD's built in file storage and delivery by using a simple "Deliver File.." action. This uses the storage space included with your DPD plan and does not charge any additional fees for storage or bandwidth. With a deliver file action all you...