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What is SMTP and Why Does it Matter?

The Basics SMTP stands for Simple Mail Transfer Protocol. Simply put (see what I did there?), SMTP is a communication tool for email transmission between servers that manages outgoing mail. Picture a beautiful meadow of wildflowers. As the flowers sway

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Order Desk Team

Retreat 2023: Wish You Were Here!

Recently the Order Desk team had a chance to do something we haven’t done in a very long time: a company retreat. In fact it’s been three years since the last time we were able to get together, and the

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Release Notes

April 2023

In this month’s newsletter: With that said, let the newsletter commence! Integration Features & Updates Print on Demand Additional item level options that can be set as variations or item metadata for: Additional order level options that can be set as checkout data or

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Release Notes

March 2023

Greetings from Puerto Vallarta, Mexico! Order Desk is finally having a company retreat for the first time since before the global pandemic. We’ve hired 14 people since then (tripling our company in size!) and the majority of us have never

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Announcements

2022 Wrap-Up

The past few years have posed so many unique challenges, but one thing we at Order Desk have noticed is the way you have risen above them and adapted. We love watching you thrive and it inspires us to do

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Announcements

Outage Postmortem: December 19, 2022

Between December 18th and 19th, 2022, Order Desk sustained a partial outage in which new orders could not be imported into the system. The order insertion downtime lasted from Sunday afternoon to Monday afternoon and lasted a total of 26

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