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If you've been wondering why things have been rather quiet on the DAP front, then here's why…

We've been working on a top-secret web site that we're going to be launching later this week.

Can't tell you much about it yet, but just know this…

It's an awesome toolbox, jam-packed with 7 spanking new WordPress plugins, that will literally rock your WordPress world!

How dat for a teaser?

And we're looking for 5 Beta Testers, who can help us with the following…

• You will test at least 5 of the 7 plugins within the next 3 days (each plugin should take no more than 10 minutes to setup and test) and give us meaningful feedback (not just "it works fine").
• You will provide us with a (hopefully awesome) testimonial that we can use during the launch (only if you think the plugins totally rock, of course!)
• You will maintain absolute secrecy, and will not breathe a word about this to anyone, until it's pre-launch time and you get the go-ahead from us

What's In It For You

• In return for all of your help, you get a Free Copy of the entire plugin pack (all 7 plugins)
• You get a Lifetime License of the entire set of plugins, with 1 Year of FREE, Unlimited Upgrades & Support
• You get to cut in line and be a Charter Affiliate. And should you choose to participate in the pre-launch promotions, you get to tell everyone – ahead of even us telling our own users and subscribers – for which you will earn affiliate commissions, of course!

If you don't have the time to help us us out with the testing, then we kindly ask that you skip this offer, as this is not a get-something-for-nothing offer. We do absolutely need your help, and in return, you get a free copy, 1 year of free support & upgrades, and get to be a pre-launch affiliate, and also win some big brownie-points with us

If this is something you can help us with, then please go ahead and let us know in the comments below, and we'll be in touch with the first 5 to respond.

Either way, look out for a rockin' new launch coming your way this week. You certainly wouldn't want to miss the launch, because the launch pricing starts with a whopping discount of 60%, and then will work itself all the way up to regular list pricing, with the price going up every single day for 10 straight days.

Looking forward to working with the "Fab Five" Beta Testers…

Cheers!

- Veena & Ravi
PS: You must be a DAP user – offer not open to the general public.

4.1 Beta Is Here!

And we've added some very cool new features to this release. So let's get right to the big story…

Self-Service Store (SSS)

This is our big "Magnum Opus" – our "Summer Blockbuster" – released early!!

This is our "Pièce de résistance", our "Coup d'état", our "Tour de force", our "Chef-d'oeu·vre"… (ok, ok, stopping… running out of hyperbole anyway)

But that's how excited we are about this!!! Enough to put 3 exclamation marks in a row!!!

The Self-Service Store (SSS) plugin is a very cool new plugin, that allows you to give "Credits" to your buyers (of a "Master" product), which they can then "Redeem" towards various "Child" Products. It's practically "Content On Demand".

Instead of you dripping content on them in a pre-determined fashion, they choose the modules they want, and the order in which they want them. You just give them the credits, put the power of choice at their fingertips, and get out of the way . Awesome stuff (video further below).

Please note that SSS will only work with 4.1 and above.

Click here to buy the SSS Plugin

MailChimp Integration

DAP now integrates with MailChimp. At a Product level, you can choose if buyers of that Product get added to your MailChimp list. DAP will also "remove" them from your MailChimp list if their access to the Product is removed within DAP.

Internationalization

Hola! Ce qui est très cool ("this is very cool" – in French, no less!).

DAP goes global!

No, we don't mean people from around the world buying DAP – that they already do. We're talking about the new ability to customize the few "Member-Facing" pages in DAP – like "My Content", "My Profile" and "My Affiliate Info" pages – in any non-English language of your choice. We tested with many languages – like Spanish, Dutch, French, and even Chinese! Others will/should work too – as long the language characters are UTF-8 based.

WordPress is already "international" friendly, so we're excited to be able to help membership site creation in multiple languages. And what's really cool, is that you can now also send Autoresponder & Broadcast emails in all of these languages (the last time we checked, even the big-boys like Aweber don't let you do that!).

Admin & Affiliate Reports

There are a few new useful Admin & Affiliate reports.

Admin: On the DAP Admin home page, you will see a few new reports, and enhancements to existing reports. The new "Member Summary" report will show you how many paid users, free users, admin-added and expired users there are. It also gives you a per-Product break-down of these same numbers. And on top of that, you can use the date range to further filter results.

There's also a new "View Performance Summary" report (default report that runs when you visit the "Affiliates > Run Reports" page) that gives you more information for each affiliate – like Clicks generated, Leads, Sales and even Earnings-Per-Click (EPC).

Affiliate: The same affiliate report above is now available to each of your affiliates too. On their affiliate page, they can now see a new table that lists their Clicks, Leads, Sales and EPC.

IPN Script Generator For Developers

DAP now supports the ability to quickly develop support for any 3rd party shopping cart providers that support IPN notification (via HTTP POST) to 3rd party scripts. The DAP admin will have the ability to generate an IPN Script for any 3rd-party shopping cart that support IPN. 

And once the script is generated, you simply upload it to the "dap" folder on your site and update the shopping cart IPN URL settings with the URL of this new script.

New DAP ShortCode Feature

You can now use the DAP ShortCode framework to NOT SHOW a part of your post or page, to anyone WHO IS LOGGED IN.

So, say you wanted your "Sales Copy" and your "Buy Button" to be shown only to visitors, but NOT BE SHOWN to those who are already members, then you can do this.

DAP Plugin Framework

We've created a new "Plugin Framework" for DAP, that developers (and we ourselves) can use to quickly add plugins (even a few-line scripts) to DAP, in order to integrate with other 3rd-party scripts. For example, on a new user-add, you want DAP to pass the member info to a 3rd-party script or application that you are using in addition to DAP. It's not yet as slick as the WordPress plugin framework, but we'll certainly get there sooner than later. In fact, the MailChimp integration is our very first plugin to use this framework.

Miscellaneous Additions

We have a couple of features planned – like one password-generation related feature – which we're going to add to this release before it goes final (a 4.1.1, if you will).

Dog Food v4.1

Yup, we always eat our own dog-food. So we've actually gone ahead and installed v4.1 Beta on this very site – DigitalAccessPass.com . So when you log in to the member's area, you will now see the new "Affiliate Performance Report" that we mentioned above.

The SSS plugin (in its primitive original version from years ago) has always been sold separately. And it will continue to be sold separately.

And once we add the avatar-the-mind-bender-type features to this plugin over the next couple of releases, the price is going to go up – way up.
 

DAP Affiliates: Get Busy!

If you're already a DAP user, then this is THE perfect time to promote DAP.

The last time we offered SSS for free, many of our affiliates made a killing. There's no better bonus for DAP than a real, usable, useful, powerful plugin like SSS.

So get your affiliate toolbox out, and start notifying your lists.

Check Out The Videos

1) SSS Intro

2) SSS Admin Setup

3) SSS User View

MailChimp Integration

Cheers!

- Veena & Ravi

PS: And don't forget to leave a comment below, as alwaySSS

You simply have no excuses left anymore.

You keep hearing how Upsells (especially “Post-purchase, 1-Click Upsells”) will put plenty of moolah in your pocket.

Now you can do 1-Click Upsells with just a good ol’ PayPal business account.

Yup. No fancy-schmancy merchant account required.

And checkout the home-made “light box” script…
http://www.digitalaccesspass.com/upselltree.php

And don’t forget to leave your comments below.

Veena Prashanth
Co-Founder & Co-Developer
DigitalAccessPass.com

Here’s a pretty accurate list of what’s coming in a few days on 03/15/2010 03/16/2010….

* Spanking-new DAP Admin Dashboard Navigation Menu

* Comments on protected pages/posts are now hidden from un-authorized users. Comments are shown only to authorized, logged-in users who have access to view that post/page

* DAP now hides WordPress Page links from the sidebar as well as from the WP standard navigation menu. So if a WP Page (not the same as a WP Post) is protected and the user (logged in or not-logged-in) is not yet eligible to view it (or access has expired), then the link to the protected page will no longer even “display” on your blog’s sidebar.

* Title of the Login/Logout Widget on the sidebar, can now be customized

* Login/Logout Form can be completely changed to however you want it to look.

* One-Time Offers (OTO’s) are now free and part of core DAP

* Complete “Power Customization” of protected content error messages (ones with the DAP lock image)

* Ability to redirect unauthorized users to a custom URL : to any page on your site, to any page on any site, to a product-specific error page, or to your sales page.

* 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

* Login-form shows up right on the error page for non-loggedin users trying to access a protected link. 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.

* Custom Product-Level Redirection After Login: You already have this feature at a system-level, where you can say where users should go after login. Now, depending on what product or membership level the user has purchased, you can now configure them to go to a different page after login. To achieve this, you would publish multiple login forms on your web site, one per product/membership level. And pass a hidden form variable called “redirect”. So after the user logs in, you can take the user to any page on any site you want. In effect, what this does is allow you to control the “URL After Login” for different products, and allow you to redirect them to any custom page immediately after they login. Of course, you must set up one login form PER product. May not be too useful for the average DAP Admin, but this has been requested a lot for a while, so we decided to implement this. Low hanging fruit, actually . In a future version, you will be able to set this “POST_LOGIN_URL” at a Product level, right within the Product page.

* DAP is becoming a Platform! WooHoo! You will soon be able to Develop Plugins For DAP just the way people today can Develop Plugins For WordPress. So DAP will no longer be just a Membership Script – it will become an entire platform by itself – something that different developers and companies and vendors can extend easily without touching or modifying the DAP core files.

And finally…

* [HUGE] Upsell-Tree for Regular Paypal: You can now do 1-Click Upsells using just a plain ol’ Paypal Standard (business) account. No merchant account required. This Plugin will be sold separately and will not be released as part of DAP core.

And to think that we’re just getting started in 2010! DAP is absolutely going to ROCK! So stay tuned.

And feel free to comment below.

Cheers!

- Ravi Jayagopal & Veena Prashanth

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:

Upsell-Tree

Have you checked out our spanking new “Upsell Tree” video? Also check out the new documentation for installing Upsell-Tree.

If you recently purchased the Upsell-Tree plugin, simply download the latest versions of both DAP and UpsellTree and upload all files to your site. We made some minor fixes and improvements.

DAP & LiveLinks

Did you know that DAP v3.5 and LiveLinks v1.1 have been out for over a week now? Download them from your member’s area.

Even if you recently upgraded DAP, it’s not a bad idea to just download all new DAP and LiveLinks files and upload them once more to your site. Doesn’t hurt, plus you can be absolutely sure you have the latest files.

Feel free to comment below.

Enjoy!

- Ravi & Veena
PS: Oh, and Paypal Pro support is coming very soon

We’re launching 3 New, Super-Powerful, DAP Plugins on Jan 11th, 2010 (Monday!).

1) Authorize.net Plugin

2) “Upsell Tree”: 1-Click Upsells & Downsells (Unlimited)

3) One-Time Offers (OTO) Plugin

The launch is going to happen during a webinar.

Use this post to comment about this announcement.

And click here to signup for the webinar.

- Ravi Jayagopal

Very exciting times ahead for DAP! Lots of cool features coming soon…

Coming Soon

1) Authorize.net integration
2) 1-Click Upsells
3) One-Time Offers (OTO)
4) Coupons…

And more!

Here’s what is coming in just a few days…

Authorize.net Integration

Which means, if you have an Authorize.net merchant account, then DAP itself becomes your shopping cart. No need for a 3rd party cart like 1SiteAutomation.com (1ShoppingCart Private Label).

It also means that the customer never leaves your web site to make a payment. No more sending people to a different web site – like Paypal – for instance. Customer stays within your web site’s pages. And makes a purchase right on your web site.

Once this plugin goes live soon, 1-Click Upsells and OTO’s will soon follow suit.

If you are willing to try out the Authnet Plugin beta version, you will get a substantial discount on the plugin. So please let us know via the comments below if you’re interested in signing up for the beta and getting the discount.

What You Need (To Use This Plugin)

1) Your own Authorize.net Merchant Account

2) A “SSL Certificate” on your web host.This is where your site looks like “https://Yoursite.com” with the extra “s” after the “http..”. That is what allows your members to “securely” enter their credit card information on your site and submit it for payment processing. We can help you set up SSL on your host for a fee. Just ask us.

Taking DAP To A Whole New Level

DAP already does way more than what our competitors do.

With the addition of these features (and even more that we’ll be adding: Product Chaining, Joomla Support, vBulletin integration, …) we’re taking DAP to a whole new level.

And we are really excited, humbled and honored that it is your support that has allowed us to get here.

And we promise you that in 2010, we’re going to take DAP “Where No Membership Script Has Gone Before!”

And finally, a “HUGE Thank You” for your show of support and incredible feedback at the Warrior Forum . I’ve published your comments from the forum on our testimonials page.

Cheers and have an an AMAZING 2010!

- Ravi Jayagopal

PS: And don’t forget to follow me on Twitter.

You’re probably not aware (and neither was I until quite recently) that 1ShoppingCart has an API similar to Paypal’s “Instant Payment Notification” (IPN).

Of course, it is nowhere as sophisticated as IPN, but it gets the job done.

And I’ve just completed about 99.99% of the coding to integrate the 1SC API with DAP. Some more testing needs to be done.

This means that if you use 1ShoppingCart (or a private label like 1SiteAutomation.com) to process payments, then you no longer need to depend on DAP’s Email Parsing to process incoming new orders.

This will solve the problem of the occasionally greatly delayed email notification from 1ShoppingCart, because the 1SC API Notification will be in real time to DAP, just like Paypal notifies instantly of purchases through IPN.

Simply turn on the API in your 1ShoppingCart account (when it is ready, a video will show you how to do this) and the new XML-based script in DAP will take care of the rest.

And now that we have the API integrated, it also means that if someone purchases MULTIPLE membership products in one go, then DAP can now process multiple products in one purchase (transaction), a feature that wasn’t available before.

The API will also notify of recurring payments.

So, this makes way for lots of very cool features with DAP – especially when you throw in the “Self-Service Store“!

Stay tuned for more news about this soon.

UPDATE 07/21/09: 1SC Bust

After doing a whole lot of research, coding and live testing (with live purchases), I found out that their stupid API does not support Recurring Order Notifications.

Which means only the very first purchase will ping DAP. The recurring orders won’t.

So DAP will never know about the subscription payments, which means the extension of the subscription cannot be automated.

So, I’m dumping this effort for now.

Back to “Email Parsing” for 1SC. <Sigh!>

Wow, 2 hours and 20 minutes!

That’s how long the “1 Hour” webinar lasted last night.

And I made sure there was plenty of drama to keep everyone awake and interested: Forgetting to record the webinar for my grandchildren to cherish, PC crash right before, GoToWebinar muting me out all of a sudden (at least that’s what I would like to believe) and me talking for about 5 minutes without realizing that no one could hear me, screen freezes, forgetting to upload special offer link… it was all happening out there

If you were a witness to the mayhem, go ahead and comment below and let me know what you thought. I promise I won’t censor them

And if I missed answering your question, ask below and I will make sure I do answer it now.

And I did make a special “SSSS” (Self-Service Store Special) Offer. The missing link (literally) is below

SSS will shortly launch at $97. But using the link below, you can buy it now for $47.

Once the offer expires, the very same link above will go up in price.

So here’s your only chance to Save $50 on SSS.

- Ravi Jayagopal
PS: What is SSS?