Written by Ken Quigley

December 29 2022

When we set out to raise 10,000 meals this month, it seemed ambitious. The goal was inspired by the record number of people turning to local food banks as inflation, high-interest rates, skyrocketing rents, and the cost of fuel forced many families to make some tough choices over the holidays. Many for the first time, and many more with...

Written by Ken Quigley

December 28 2022

We've been selling Act! for a while. In fact, Keystroke has sold more Act! than any other company in history, outside of Act! themselves. So when we say we know what works with purchasing Act!, it's not a bold statement. And the one thing we've learned over the years is having a support plan improves the user experience immeasurably, and the...

Written by Ken Quigley

December 20 2022

Over the years, many QuickBooks users have used their accounting program for quoting, and it's easy to understand why. The Estimate feature is built into the program, and accepted quotes can be converted to invoices with a single click. I know this because I used to use this feature once myself, and it seemed convenient at the time. The problem...

Written by Ken Quigley

December 19 2022

On December 19th we hosted the 3rd Annual Keystroke Virtual Christmas Party, and while it was fun, we certainly hope this is the last year we're apart. From a staffing perspective, 2022 certainly was a year of change as we saw the departure of team members like James Young, Erik Smetana, Courtney Pelletier, Billy Clark, and Lilly, as well...

Written by Ken Quigley

December 14 2022

In a recent blog, we mentioned the progress we're making in updating our products to support OAuth 2.0.For those unfamiliar with this issue, there has been a slow deprecation of Office365 and Gmail services using Basic Authentication, which has impacted the use of many of our products. This has forced us to accelerate the OAuth upgrades of all...

Written by Ken Quigley

December 13 2022

When we entered 2022, many of us in business thought the worst was behind us. The pandemic had seemingly loosened its stranglehold on our everyday life, business was slowly returning to normal, and we all seemed more positive about the year ahead. Unfortunately, that optimism gave way to the reality of inflation, severe supply shortages caused...

Written by Ken Quigley

December 01 2022

Normally at the beginning of each month, we offer some discounted product(s) as our featured "Product of the month, and reduce the price by 20-25% on average. This month our focus is different because of our "Act! to end Hunger" campaign that donates 5% of all new sales to Second Harvest.Needless to say, discounting prices would reduce the...

Written by Ken Quigley

November 30 2022

This contest was a lot of fun. We knew we'd get some enthusiastic responses to our Act! Success Story campaign, but some of the customer stories were truly gratifying.Act! users are unusually loyal, and they stick with what works. We heard stories about their use of different parts of the Act! program including the calendar, searching...

Written by Ken Quigley

November 29 2022

According to recent statistics, Canada has seen a 15% increase in people applying for food donations through 2022, and 60% of those are doing so for the first time. Food insecurity is at an all-time high with the increasing cost of rent, food, transportation, and utilities forcing families to make some tough choices. What makes these statistics...

Written by Ken Quigley

November 28 2022

On the eve of the release of three major new features of Link2forms, we thought we'd share what we have planned for the Linktivity product suite in general this coming month. French TranslationFor Linktivity in general, we plan to implement a complete French translation of all the products in this online suite by the end of the year...