Happy Valentine’s Day!
Ok, so here’s what coming in DAP v3.7 and LiveLinks v1.2:
- Complete customization of “protected content” error messages (ones with the DAP lock image)
- Ability to redirect unauthorized users to a custom URL – even to your sales page.
- Redirect to any page on your site – or on any site.
- Separate customizable error messages for logged-in users (who have lost access to expired content, or because they don’t yet have access to it because of the dripping) and non-logged in users
- Put login-form right within the error page. So when someone visits a protected link, DAP will show them something to the effect of “Sorry, you don’t have access… Click here to buy access to this content. Already a member? Log in below…”
- You can customize every last piece of the error message.
- Or you can simply redirect them to a product-specific error page, or even to the product’s sales page if you want.
- TOTAL POWER CUSTOMIZATION! Yay!
Watch the video below and you’ll see what this is all about.
If you’re interested in trying out the beta version, do let us know via the comments below, and we’ll get you the code.
And in the video, you can also see the new “DAP Dashboard”.
All of this will be available for free to all DAP users.
Feel free to comment below.
- Ravi Jayagopal
PS: Oh, one more thing… There’s a new plugin that we will be releasing shortly: Upsell-Tree for regular Paypal accounts. Which means you can now do 1-Click Upsells and Downsells with a regular Paypal account! No merchant account required. How cool is that? 
Ok, here’s the video:
20 comments ↓
Thanks for your efforts with DAP. I think its only a matter of time before it will leave the competitors behind. (or may be they already are behind ?)
Yes, I would like to try the DAP v3.7 and LiveLinks v1.2
Very cool. You guys never cease to amaze me with all you do. Thank you.
Currently I use http://www.myforwardsteps.com/product-error.html
Looking forward to the Upsell-Tree for regular Paypal accounts.
I’ll leave it to you when you want to upgrade/update my site – no rush – got plenty on the go.
Cheers, Thea
I like the dashboard design with more sensible menuing.
I would be happy to help beta test it, send me a copy, or give me access to it.
WOW, this is exactly what I’m waiting for. If You remember almost all of my ticket questions are around what you announce today (the total custom error & upsell tree for regular paypal)
Please let me know when they’re all ready.
For BETA tester, I think I’ll just wait when you decide to release it to all DAP users, since I’m not a techie person.
Great work!
leesoes
I love the new design and functionality you’re developing, Ravi. I am also loving how DAP works to genuinely content to our members.
I see DAP just getting better and better! I am so glad Tawnya turned us on to you back in December. We were going to go with Wishlist when she told us about DAP.
Thanks — Paul
Leesoes,
Your feedback played a big part in us deciding to implement these features.
So thanks a lot for that!
- Ravi Jayagopal
Paul,
Appreciat the kind words
We try very hard
- Ravi & Veena
Hi Ravi,
Great work. This is a techie with an understanding of market and marketing… Cool. I hope and wish you will do well.
Hi Ravi
Can you hook me up with a trial of this as we are verging on going with another product?
Thanks
This is looking great. I don’t want to beta test this version – as you know I’m busy making sure a live site is working and has content.
While you’re still working on this, I do have a couple of suggestions, and maybe you can squeeze one of these in? (I tried to use the http://www.digitalaccesspass.com/doc/suggest.php link but it’s dead.)
#1 – Button code generation in DAP rather than have to do it in PayPal etc. I do this in one of my own scripts, and it’s an ubelieveable time saver. If something needs changing like the price or the product description etc, I can just do it within the script and know that it all works perfectly without having to check that I have identical values in both PayPal / ClickBank and my script installation. Let’s face it, PayPal’s button generation is a nightmare to navigate, and I’d rather store buttons on my own site than PayPal’s.
#2 – I’ve already mentioned this one to you, but I’m sure there’s a requirement by other people for DAP to do this too. Rather than a drip feed of *content* where people can cancel and then later resume, I need to have this kind of scenario for *products*:-
Jan 2010 – Member gets Jan 2010 product called “Product 1″.
Feb 2010 – Member gets Feb 2010 product called “Product 2″.
Mar 2010 – Member cancels and doesn’t get Mar 2010 product called “Product 3″ but still has access to “Product 1″ and “Product 2″.
Apr 2010 – Member still paused and doesn’t get Apr 2010 product called “Product 4″ but still has access to “Product 1″ and “Product 2″.
May 2010 – Member rejoins and gets May 2010 product called “Product 5″
The member now has access to Product 1, Product 2 and Product 5, but NOT 3 and 4. I know you mentioned there’s a workround in DAP to expire the products after 30 days, but that’s not ideal and it doesn’t follow the same type of logic as that behind content delivery where people can cancel but still have access to the content they’ve purchased.
(What would be really nice is if the member could buy also Products 3 and 4 to catch up but at a higher price than the regular membership.)
I think if you can crack those two things on top of everything else supplied in DAP, you can stop coding. Job done.
As for appearance the orange menu bars would probably drive me mad after a while. Personally I like clear underlined blue links as there’s no doubt as to what’s a link and what isn’t.
May I suggest a subtle change like this?
#menu a
{
color: #0000ff;
background-color: #f0efff;
font-size : 12px;
font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;
font-weight: bold;
}
#menu a:link, #menu a:visited
{
color: #0000ff;
}
#menu a:hover, #menu a:active
{
color: #ffffff;
background-color: #99ccff;
}
If I’ve got that right, it should be a pleasing pale blue background with dark blue text unhovered, and a darker blue background with white text when hovered.
Or alternatively you could just stick with WordPress default colours – nobody would complain about that.
Cheers,
-Frank Haywood
Ravi & Veena
Certainly looking good and will be a welcomed upgrade. Im just bummed your paypal comments were illustrated.
Look forward to the release.
Robb
Robb,
Glad to hear that.
>>Im just bummed your paypal comments were illustrated. <<
Didn’t understand what you meant by that. Paypal comments where?
- Ravi Jayagopal
OK, Ravi, sign me up for Beta.
Cheers,
Andrew
Looks great. In addition to consolidating certain menu items as you’ve mentioned, you can also save space by not capitalizing all the menu item titles… I was doing this on my own site and then changed them to capitalizing only the first letter of each and this saves a tremendous amount of horizontal space in the menu.
Thanks Ravi, I’m interested in trying the beta version.
Ravi,
Wondering two things:
1) If members purchase Product ‘A’ from me, is there a way to link or chain them to a Product ‘B’? I would like all people who make any purchase to gain immediate access to my Members Club (Product ‘B’) without having to re-enter their email for that separate Product.
2) In the User Export function, can the Password field be added to the list of data that are exported (along with name, email, etc)? This would save me a ton of time as I use a support system/forum that is external to WP and for which I upload user data.
Mark,
>>1) If members purchase Product ‘A’ from me, is there a way to link or chain them to a Product ‘B’?< <
Not yet. "Product Chaining" has been on the cards for a while. It's coming soon though.
>>2) In the User Export function, can the Password field be added to the list of data that are exported<<
Ok, have made a note of this feature request. We’ll work it into a future release.
- Ravi
I tell you what would be VERY useful and would be a killer feature to add to DAP. Maybe you’ve been considering this already when looking at Product Chaining.
A simple method of communicating with other sites and scripts using a POST (maybe from within the cron too).
I’m shortly opening a site with a custom method of adding members to it. The software has been written and is white labelled for me and I intend to both sell access via the built in membership scipt and also offer access remotely using DAP.
The POST to add a new user looks like this:-
URL/queries?cmd=adduser&secret=&name=name &username=username&password=password&expire=1&duration=month
and to delete a user like this:-
URL/queries?cmd=deluser&secret=&username=username
You can see it passes the membership details within the POST and also has a secret key to prevent abuse.
So what I was thinking would be useful was if you included the ability to build custom URLs like the above and send that data off to somewhere else either immediately or via the cron.
If you ignore the fact that I have a personal requirement for this, it would greatly improve DAP as site admins could construct URLs that allowed them to add and remove (or suspend) members from other DAP sites.
The idea behind this is, it could be used to create bonuses such as “Join membership abc and get free access to membership def and ghi.”
Powerful stuff and as far as I’m aware, no other membership script can do this, they’re all standalone…
-Frank Haywood
Ravi,
Was going through the documentation and ran across this. Exactly what I was looking for! The previous flow of not logged in customers trying to access paid content looked like it could be a little confusing.
I made a couple adjustments in the source to make it clearer for the customer, but I hate to modify the source because of the extra maintenance during upgrades. Plus it was still two clicks to the login page.
Your solution of putting it all on one page is the perfect solution I was looking for.
I’d be glad to be a beta tester as my site isn’t quite live. But having worked on it for only 5-6 hours the back end (thanks to DAP) is 99% there. Just need to get some content on the front side, clean up a couple little things and I’ll go live.
Get the code to me and I’ll let you know how it goes. Thanks for the opportunity.
Kind Regards,
Ken
Frank,
Great idea about the posting to/from 3rd party scripts.
We have had on our list for a while now, a REST / Query String based framework for DAP.
So hopefully we can get to it sooner than later.
Thanks for the incredible feedback!
- Ravi Jayagopal
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