Written by Ken Quigley

October 28 2022

At the end of 2020 Keystroke launched a fundraising initiative through CanadaHelps.org to help feed this country's hungry. As you might guess, the pandemic had left many families in need, and this initiative raised thousands of dollars for these worthy causes. Like all good intentions, enthusiasm waned over time, and our focus naturally returned...

Written by Ken Quigley

October 21 2022

QuickBooks is an accounting program with over 4.5 million active users for a reason - it's very good at small business bookkeeping. Act! is a CRM with over 800K users worldwide, because it's very good at contact management. If both programs are good at their respective jobs and have very few overlapping features, why do so many QuickBooks users...

Written by Ken Quigley

October 21 2022

Get the CRM you want and avoid the setup hassles this week as we offer free setup assistance on all Act! Pro and Premium licenses ordered the last week of October. From Monday October 24th to Monday October 25th, Keystroke is offering this free support with all completed Act! orders. This includes Act! Pro v24 purchases and Act! Premium orders...

Written by Ken Quigley

October 17 2022

Most websites have a Contact Us page. They're so common, in fact, many business owners treat them as an afterthought, leading them to often fail at their most basic objective; to effectively engage visitors. This may seem of little consequence, but an inefficent Contact Us page can hurt businesses more than they suspect, because whether this...

Written by Ken Quigley

October 11 2022

As the inventor of CRM, it should come as no surprise that Act! has a rich & mature addon market, with hundreds of plugins to help their users "Act! better". Over the years, Act! has tried to support this market with the sale of custom tables and Handheld Contact, but this commitment has been tepid. That is until now. In the coming weeks and...

Written by Ken Quigley

October 10 2022

From now until the end of the year, Act! subscribers can get a 25% discount when they upgrade their Act! Marketing Automation (AMA) to a higher tier. That's right, new & existing Act! subscribers can step up to a higher AMA tier for 25% less for the balance of their subscription term. This means any user on a free or paid tier of AMA can...

Written by Ken Quigley

October 10 2022

It's that time of year again, and Keystroke is excited to announce our 7th annual “Actoberfest Salebration". This year is our biggest promotion ever as we offer 25% discounts on a wide range of products, including Act! Marketing Automation, our popular Linktivity Suite, and many of our top-selling add-ons! We started a bit late this year on...

Written by Ken Quigley

September 30 2022

Stonefield Software Inc. is pleased to announce the release of version 8.2 of Reporting4ACT!.  One important reason to upgrade is support for Modern Authentication (also known as OAuth) for email. As you may know, Microsoft is turning off support for Basic Authentication for Office 365 and Exchange servers in October 2022. That means...

Written by Ken Quigley

September 28 2022

With the release of Qsales Classic v14, customers looking to purchase Qsales for their business now have a much tougher choice in deployments - API or Classic. The latest version of Qsales Classic closes the feature gap between the two versions as now both can create & edit transactions within Act!, and do the same for customers and vendors...

Written by Ken Quigley

September 25 2022

Last year when we introduced Qsales v13, users loved the extensive feature improvements, but found the setup challenging. Past users didn't always adjust well to the change in integration, where previously the programs were connected and now the data was. Unfortunately, this setup was required with Act! v24 being 64-bit and QuickBooks still being...