Written by Ken Quigley

March 17 2018

- Reprinted from the Act.com Blog - May 25 2018 will mark a major divide in how businesses handle user data. This is because on this day, a new data protection bill, namely EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), will take full effect. And while it may seem like just another legal formality, believe us when we tell you that it is anything...

Written by Ken Quigley

March 17 2018

The first new version of Act! in a decade is released on March 22nd!   Act! Premium Plus is finally here! Have you driven Act! lately? If you're like many faithful Act! users who have sat on the curb waiting for a reason to upgrade your Act!, your wait is over. This ain't your Daddy's Act!. Act! Premium Plus isn't simply a new product, it...

Written by Ken Quigley

March 17 2018

Release Date: March 22nd, 2018 One of the more common feature requests in Act! is the ability to create new customised sections of the program. The existing sections in the navigation stackbar are obviously extremely useful, but customers also want a way to create their own sections, and have the information in these link to existing entities...

Written by Ken Quigley

March 17 2018

Release date: March 22nd, 2018 Available exclusively to Act! Premium Plus subscribers, custom tables are a new feature in Act! v20.1 (Windows and web users) that allow you to create customised sections of the program, similar to Opportunities, for tracking one-to-many data records. These custom tables can be created with their own set of...

Written by Ken Quigley

March 16 2018

It's been 31 years since the launch of Act!, and we're proud to say that one of the two co-inventors of Act!, Mike Muhney, is amongst our newest Handheld Contact users. Mike has returned to his roots and has once again embraced Act! as his CRM, just as Swiftpage is about to launch the next generation of Act! CRM software - namely Act! Premium...

Written by Ken Quigley

March 08 2018

Yesterday Swiftpage announced to the reseller community their plans to implement a small price increase o accounts that renew after May 1st, 2018, and all Act! Pro purchases made after the same date. To be clear, the price is NOT increasing for new Act! Subscriptions or Act! Premium Cloud accounts, just renewing accounts that were started before...

Written by Ken Quigley

March 07 2018

Keystroke is pleased to announce a deal with Stonefield Query, an industry leader in providing reporting solutions, to be the exclusive worldwide distributor of their Act! reporting products. As part of this agreement, Stonefield has agreed to develop three new tiers of their products under the Keystroke branding of “Reporting4Act!”, and will be...

Written by Ken Quigley

February 15 2018

It's never been easier to sell Act! to your customers in Canada Authorized Act! Resellers are an exclusive group of independent Canadian resellers who've been authorized to sell Act! by us, the Canadian Master Distributor of Act!. No training or certification is required to become an Authorized Act! Reseller, but we do select those vendors we...

Written by Ken Quigley

February 15 2018

Quoting4Act! is an integrated quoting solution that works with both Act! for Windows and Web. Simply start by creating an opportunity, adding your products and services, and with a click of the mouse Quoting4Act! converts it into a sophisticated quoting module that allows you to calculate shipping fees, sales taxes, and even foreign exchange. You...

Written by Ken Quigley

February 05 2018

Last week Swiftpage, the makers of Act!, updated their "Tolerance Reset Policy" to clarify who will receive free tolerance resets, and who will be charged a nominal fee for same. For those unfamiliar with the term, there is a built-in registration tolerance threshold in Act!, similar to other popular software titles on the market. This threshold...