DPD Loves Olark
on December 8th, 2010
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 d...
Instant Payment Notifications (IPNs) are key to how DPD processes and validates PayPal orders. We receive an IPN for each successful purchase that triggers an email and activates the buyer's purchase. To make sure we are receiving an actual IPN from PayPal to prevent unauthorized download, DPD contacts and verifies each IPN with PayPal. We either get a VALID or INVALID response.
In the past week or so we noticed a spike in failed IPN verifications from PayPal due to the continued rollout of PayPal's new site. ...
We're happy to announce beta support for AlertPay as a processor choice for your DPD cart!
Adding an AlertPay product is easy:
Create a new website
Choose AlertPay from the drop-down menu and enter your AlertPay login and IPN code
Login to AlertPay and enable IPN support with the URL we display in your website setup
Add your product to the new website
DPD supports AlertPay for both instant, single item checkout as well as using our multi-item checkout cart.
We only support digital and key code p...