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    Act! By Sage 2007

    Act! By Sage 2007

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    From: Sage Software
    Category: Software

    List Price: $229.99
    Buy New: $18.00
    You Save: $211.99 (92%)



    New (13) Used (5) from $18.00

    Rating: 2.0 out of 5 stars 96 reviews
    Sales Rank: 542

    Format: Cd-rom
    Platforms: Windows 2000, Windows Xp
    Media: CD-ROM
    Edition: Standard
    Autographed: No
    Memorabilia: No
    Batteries Included: No
    Operating System: Windows XP
    Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.6
    Dimensions (in): 9.7 x 7.8 x 2.7
    Legal Disclaimer: Warranty does not cover misuse of product.

    MPN: 100722
    Model: ACTS2007RT
    UPC: 040689006511
    EAN: 0040689006511
    ASIN: B000HLRAJG

    Release Date: September 18, 2006
    Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
    Condition: Brand new. Never open. Factory sealed.No manual guide book. Usually shipped in 3 business days. Delivered in 1 week.

    Features:
      • The #1 selling contact and customer manager worldwide; keeps track of all your contact and customer information in a single location
      • Integration with Lotus Notes, Outlook Express and Outlook lets you efficiently track all your correspondence
      • Ideal for traveling; links to a Palm OS or Pocket PC device to synchronize your ACT! Calendar, Contacts, To-Do information, Notes, and History items
      • Synchronizes with Microsoft Outlook calendars to schedule appointments with colleagues not using ACT
      • Improved search functionality and greater integration with Outlook over previous versions

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    Editorial Reviews:

    Amazon.com
    Act! By Sage 2007 enables individuals and small business customers to instantly access key contact and customer information, manage and prioritize activities, and track all contact-related communications so you can grow productive business relationships. Renowned for its ease of use, ACT! can be tailored by each user and offers robust integration with the tools you use everyday, such as Microsoft Office, Lotus Notes, accounting products, and handheld devices. With more than 2.5 million individual users and 30,000 corporate customers, ACT! is the #1 selling contact and customer manager worldwide.



    Enter virtually unlimited date- and time-stamped Notes and History to track every relationship detail. View larger.


    Organize all of your contact data in one place for quick and easy access. View larger.


    Stay on top of your schedule and prioritize tasks so you are productive. View larger.


    Forecast and track sales opportunities for an improved bottom line. View larger.


    Access and report on information quickly and easily. View larger.
    Organize Your Contacts
    ACT! is a single, central repository for critical contact and customer information captured across your business. It enables you to access detailed contact and customer information, manage calendars and activities, capture all customer communications, track opportunities through the sales process, and report on overall effectiveness.

    With ACT! you can track complete customer data, including all contact details, your personal notes and customer history, appointments and vital to-do items, documents, and more. Offering over 60 pre-defined fields for each contact, you can easily sort and track your customers by any number of characteristics. The software even lets you attach documents directly into your customer's account information. If you are in Microsoft Word and Excel, you can easily attach documents and spreadsheets to ACT! contacts so it's easy to quickly locate vital information such as presentations, proposals, and quotes. Advanced customization features let you design your own layouts, and you can move relevant field displays to suit the unique needs of your business.

    Stay in Touch and Connected
    ACT!'s Contact Record lets you track all of your critical contact and customer communications for quick and easy referencing. With the software's e-mail client integrated with Lotus Notes or Microsoft Outlook Express, or integrated directly with Outlook, you can send outbound e-mails to contacts and create contact history on the Contact Record. ACT!'s Mail Merge feature even allows you to correspond with multiple contacts, either via e-mail or paper correspondence, and automatically tracks a history on each Contact record.

    A built-in word processor that supports tables, graphics, HTML and spell checking makes it easy to write letters directly from ACT! You can select a group of contacts and perform a mail merge to a letter or e-mail. Best of all, a history is automatically generated on each contact record every time you send correspondence. With ACT! you'll never lose track of your past correspondence again.

    Prioritize Your Work
    ACT! can help you stay on top of your deliverables by offering multiple calendar views, including daily and customizable work week views. Calls, meetings, and to-do items can be filtered by priority, date range, or user, and you can display totals for each type of activity. Built-in activity alarms will help you stay on top of all your time-sensitive deliverables, so you'll always be ahead of the game with your contacts. If you rely on communicating with colleagues who are not using ACT!, you can also synchronize your ACT! calendar with their Microsoft Outlook calendar to facilitate appointment scheduling and tasks.

    Track Sales Opportunities
    ACT! enables you to track sales opportunities from the initial inquiry through the closing to utilize the standard sales process, or you can create a customized process to suit your business. When working an opportunity, simply click follow-up and a new activity will be created automatically with details, thereby ensuring the prospect is managed as it moves through the process. The product list lets you easily enter repeated products or services, and can automatically fill in information such as name, item number, cost, and price. ACT! also gives you the options of choosing from over 20 pre-formatted Sales Reports, or exporting to Microsoft Excel with a single click for further analysis using built-in, customizable pivot tables.

    Information on the Go
    If you are on the road with your business, you can take your critical contact and customer information with you no matter where you go. With ACT!, you can link to a Palm OS or Pocket PC device to synchronize your ACT! Calendar, Contacts, To-Do information, Notes, and History items. Are you still using a paper organizer when you're out of the office? Don't fret! ACT! features over 20 printable templates designed for popular paper organizers so you always have your schedule with you.

    Product Description
    ACT! enables individuals and small business customers to instantly access key contact and customer information, manage and prioritize activities, and track all contact-related communications so you can grow productive business relationships. Centralize your customer information and develop top-notch communications. Access and report on information quickly for a complete view of customer interactions. Prioritize your work to stay on top of appointments and tasks, and forecast and track sales opportunities for an improved bottom line. You can even take critical information on the go, for even better productivity. Attach documents directly into Activities, History, or Documents tabs Write letters in ACT! using Microsoft Word or the ACT! built-in Word Processor which supports tables, graphics, HTML, and spell checking Schedule calls, meetings, and to-dos quickly and easily Filter calls, meetings, and to-do items by priority, date range, or user Calendar pop-ups make it easy to view activity details instantly by mousing over any activity for an at-a-glance view View all sales opportunities at once or filter by Users, Estimated Close Date, Status, Sales Stage, Amount, or Probability of Close Track customer correspondence for a history of all communications with a contact and its organization Use the Product List to easily enter repeated products or services and automatically fill in information such as name, item number, cost and price


    Customer Reviews:   Read 91 more reviews...

    1 out of 5 stars ACT! has gone downhill fast   August 14, 2008
    K. Scott Webster
    Our firm has been using ACT! for over 12 years. It "was" a great product at one time, but it has been trash since they went to the new SQL platform. Slow, cumbersome, hangs, and crashes. The integration with MS OUTLOOK is awful. We have quit trying to use the email integartion with Outlook two years ago.

    The software has serious problems, but Sage has had no significant updates or patches to fix them. They want you to buy the newer version in hopes of something better. We tried that once, and it was still junk. We have sent several emails to Sage looking for help or direction, but never got a response from them.

    We will migrate to a new software product by the end of this month. Act! is not worth the aggravation.



    1 out of 5 stars Sage will not refund money.   June 13, 2008
    Gadgetlover (Redwood City, CA, USA)
    I have written Sage 3 times in one year for a refund for ACT 2007, which is an awful product. This is warning they will ignore you.


    2 out of 5 stars Act 2007 doesn't work with Vista   June 11, 2008
    Hadley (Chicago, IL)
    I had Act 2003 working on 3 computers, then I had to upgrade to 2007 because Sage wouldn't support the older version any more. I had to get a new CPU for one system for the Act 2007 to work on it. Then another system crashed and I had to buy a new one. This one has to have Vista on it because that's what they all come with now. So I get Act installed on the new Vista operating system and find out it doesn't work on Vista, so now, after 1 year of use, I have to upgrade to 2008 for the new system which won't sync with the other computers anymore...I don't understand why they pushed so hard for everyone to buy a system that won't work on any new computer and why they just can't do a fix for 2007! What a rip off!


    4 out of 5 stars ACT 2007 SOFTWARE   June 9, 2008
    Geraldine Bass (MICHIGAN - USA)
    PREFERRED CONTACT MANAGER FOR OUR OFFICE OF SALES REPS, 4TH UPGRADE. HANDLES MULTIPLE USERS WITH ONE DATABASE. WOULD LIKE TO SEE BETTER SUPPORT AND MORE COMPATIBILITY WITH HANDHELDS OF VARIOUS KINDS.


    3 out of 5 stars Too much time spent supporting ACT for my users   May 14, 2008
    S. Pace (Seattle, WA)
    My experience with ACT comes from the support side, as I provide IT support at my company and provide help for all things ACT. ACT seems to do the job for my users, but it is a nightmare & time-hog from a support perspective. Any upgrade, update, database conversion, or data import I've ever done has resulted in erors and calls to technical support, and this after I've already researched or downloaded step-by-step articles describing how to do it! The Remote Sync takes much time to set up, and any update or change done to ACT requires you to completely reconfigure each user's ACT settings in order to sync. Very inefficient, doable as long as you document the 200 steps that need to be done. My experience with tech support has been good, they always resolve the issue, it just gets old having to call them so often, and is time-consuming.

    The last straw came after upgrading to ACT 2006. It slowed laptops down to a crawl. Not just ACT, but everything, including Windows, ran slow on the laptops with ACT installed. Part of the reason (I found after several calls to tech support), is that ACT had introduced new "services" (Stayrunning & Preload) that continually run in the background. These services could be permanently turned off only by doing a reg hack. This sped things up a bit, but some users still complained of slowness and having to wait 30 seconds to open a Word file. So we have uninstalled ACT from most of our laptops, at the request of the laptop users.


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