Written by Ken Quigley

January 30 2019

As the Canadian Master Distributor of Act!, we're writing you today because an issue has been identified with Canadian installations of Act! v21 that can frustrate users ability to select dates when scheduling activities. Issue: When scheduling an event, if you click in the date field and select a future date, it reverts back to the current day's...

Written by Ken Quigley

December 16 2018

With a wave of legacy Act! users rushing to upgrade their software before the embedded 3rd party licensing service officially stops working on December 31st, many are asking whether they need to go to an Act! subscription product, or will Act! Pro suffice for their needs.   This is not a new conundrum, as we've published a few article son this...

Written by Ken Quigley

October 03 2018

Supercharge your marketing automation with AMA   Swiftpage will be launching a plugin version of their new Act! Marketing Automation service late summer, with plans to incorporate AMA into the core product with Act! Premium v21- expected later this month. Many may recall the Swiftpage eMarketing was initially introduced the same way...

Written by Ken Quigley

September 30 2018

Act! Premium Plus was introduced in March of 2018 as part of the 20.1 update, and it ushered in a new era for the product line. For the first time in the history of Act!, the core product now included the powerful "custom table" technology, enabling users of all industries to capture "transactional" data in their database, and track them at the...

Written by Ken Quigley

September 10 2018

Act! v21 expected in late October   When subscription was introduced to Act! back in May 2015, it signaled the end of traditional annual upgrade cycles, as subscription promised year round product improvements. We saw this trend continue in the spring of 2018, when v20.1 introduced us to a whole new Outlook integration technology and a new...

Written by Ken Quigley

September 10 2018

For the month of September, we're offering our biggest discount ever on Act! Subscription membership. That's right, all past Act! customers are now eligible to receive 33% discount (see the chart below) off their first year of Act! subscription - which is like getting twelve months for the cost of eight. It’s our way of saying thank you for being...

Written by Ken Quigley

September 08 2018

The sun is setting on Act! v18, as Swiftpage is scheduled to deprecate this release at the end of this month (for more information on the Swiftpage Obsolescence Policy, please click HERE). What does this sunsetting mean to you? Act! ProIf you're an Act! Pro v18 customer, September is the last month you'll be able to purchase additional licenses...

Written by Ken Quigley

July 30 2018

We're pleased to announce that the development team at Swiftpage is currently working on Update 7 for Act! v20.1. This update is expected to be available early this week, and addresses the specific defects below: D-08283 – Premium Plus serial numbers do not update seat count D-08280 – New ‘quick action’ features in Outlook are...

Written by Ken Quigley

July 23 2018

Join Swiftpage on Wednesday, July 25th for a live look at Custom Tables in the new Act! Premium Plus. With the introduction of Custom Tables, you can use Act! in ways you never knew possible! Now you can maintain detailed, industry-specific data like insurance policies, services contracts, mortgages, or projects in tables with spreadsheet-like...

Written by Ken Quigley

July 13 2018

For the month of July, any customer purchasing Act! Pro v20 at $299.99 will receive the first year of Handheld Contact on one device (one device of Handheld Contact per each user purchased at the $299.99 price) for free. This $79.95 value is valid until July 31, 2018, and all Pro customers purchasing v20 at $299.99 are eligible. The total cost of...