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DPD vendors in the US will see a new popup when logging in to the DPD admin until Dec 14th. We're showing this popup asking you take action to save Net Neutrality rules because it directly affects your ability to sell your downloadable content with DPD. What is Net Neutrality? Net Neutrality is the basic principle that prohibits internet service providers like AT&T, Comcast and Verizon from speeding up, slowing down or blocking any content, applications or websites you want to use. Net Neutrality is the way that the internet has always worked. Net Neutrality prevents ISP's from restricting access to the sites and content your love. Net Neutrality prevents ISP's from charging you more to access content they don't want you to have. Net neutrality is essential for creative freedom. How Ending Net Neutrality Will Affect DPD Vendors Without Net Neutrality rules in place there will be nothing stopping...

Last night PayPal notified of a policy update, effective July 1, 2015, that included a number of changes to their User Agreement, Acceptable Use Policy, and Privacy Policy. Intangible Items Added To Buyer Purchase Protection The most important change to sellers of intangible items such as games, software, ebooks, music, or audio files is that they are now extending Purchase Protection to buyers of intangible goods. Section 13.3 We are increasing the scope of PayPal Purchase Protection to now include coverage for intangible items. More importantly, while they are extending Purchase Protection to buyers, they are not extending Seller Protection. Section 11.4 Although we are expanding PayPal Purchase Protection to buyers for intangible items, Seller Protection will not apply to intangible items. We are including a note in this section about this. In addition, we are adding a definition of Proof of Delivery for intangible or virtual items or services...

Stripe is by far the easiest credit card processor to get set up with but until today it's only been available for US merchants. Today Stripe added Canada to their list of supported countries Starting today, Stripe is publicly available for use by any individual or business based in Canada. It’s the exact same Stripe that we offer in the US: instant approval, all major card types accepted, the ability to accept payments from anyone in any country, and simple, flat pricing, without monthly fees. They also restated their goal to support businesses and individuals anywhere in the world, which we think is just awesome. You can read more on the Stripe blog: Stripe in Canada!

Cerizmo.com is closing it's service on May 14, 2012. As a result, they have recommended that their users switch to DPD to continue selling downloads. This post is intended to clear up any questions Cerizmo users may have. How does DPD work? DPD works almost exactly like Cerizmo. You upload your products to DPD and set a price and product options. DPD gives you HTML button code for you to copy-and-paste in to your website. When a customer buys your products, DPD sends them to your choice of processor for payment directly to you. Once the customer has paid, DPD provides them with a unique, expiring download page for them to get their products. Like Cerizmo, DPD charges a flat monthly fee with no transaction fees, bandwidth fees, or commissions. How is DPD different? DPD offers numerous product types: Digital Downloads, Keycodes, Tangible Goods, and Service Products are possible DPD...

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...

On December 10th, 2011, Louis CK, a popular and well known stand-up comedian, producer, and TV star (of his own show, Louie) offered up his Louis CK: Live at the Beacon Theater stand-up performance on his website for viewing and download, with no DRM, for $5 via PayPal. On December 13th, he issued a statement on his website that had some amazing sales numbers: The show went on sale at noon on Saturday, December 10th. 12 hours later, we had over 50,000 purchases and had earned $250,000, breaking even on the cost of production and website. As of Today, we've sold over 110,000 copies for a total of over $500,000. On December 21st, he issued another statement with an unbelievable screenshot and earnings numbers: So it's been about 12 days since the thing started and yesterday we hit the crazy number. One million dollars. That's a lot of money. Really...