Written by Ken Quigley

July 10 2024

STAY CONNECTED AND SAFE WITH HANDHELD CONTACT With support for SQL 2014 officially ending on July 9th, we thought it a good time to recognize the many Act! Pro customers out there who want a reliable mobile client for their desktop Act! but still need their SQL updated to a safe and supported version. With these goals in mind, we've crafted a...

Written by Ken Quigley

February 13 2024

Celebrate Keystroke’s 30th Anniversary with a special offer: 30% off our Handheld Contact Classic for all new and returning users until March 31st. Handheld Contact is the ultimate mobile solution for Act! users. It lets you access and update your CRM data from anywhere, using your phone, email, or SMS. It also syncs everything back to Act...

Written by Ken Quigley

September 12 2023

With the availability of Act! Pro coming to a close on Friday, we thought it a good time to recognize the hundreds of customers who purchased Act! Pro from us in recent years. And what better way than to offer a massive discount on the #1 mobile solution for Act! users, namely Handheld Contact Classic. So that's what we're doing. Starting today...

Written by Ken Quigley

July 04 2023

Summer is upon us, and no one wants to be tethered to their desk in this beautiful weather. The new Handheld Contact Classic gives you your freedom back! Travel to the cottage or camp in the woods, and your business-critical business data travels with you even without the Internet. It's the perfect summer companion! Handheld Contact has been the...

Written by Ken Quigley

May 17 2023

Long before last summer's server upgrade, the team at Handheld Contact was planning an upgrade of a different kind. Handheld Contact has been around for a long time, and some of the technology used in its synching had become dated, specifically the XML data transfer format. The XML format is slow and difficult to troubleshoot compared to the more...

Written by Ken Quigley

February 06 2023

Since we took over Handheld Contact in late 2016, we've tried many things to improve our service - some have worked, and some haven't. While we're proud of the feature expansion into Opportunities, Quoting, HHC Recover, Mapping, Searches, and others, we know we committed some unforced errors in the IOS updates in the summer of 2017. Similarly...

Written by Ken Quigley

November 01 2022

Sometimes the headline says it all. "Take your Act! on the road with Handheld Contact & save 25% this month". That's right, we're inviting all new and returning users to give any of our Handheld Contact products a try this month, and we'll give them a 25% discount off their first subscription if they buy this month. Handheld Contact has been...

Written by Ken Quigley

September 29 2021

For the last ten years, Handheld Contact pricing has remained the same. Some new less expensive products were introduced along the way, but the pricing has generally remained static. We recently reviewed our pricing structure to provide more flexible monthly pay-as-you-go subscriptions, and we realized that our current tiers didn’t easily support...

Written by Ken Quigley

September 22 2021

The makers of the leading mobile client for Act! since 2002, Handheld Contact, have now completed an extensive beta testing process of Handheld Contact Mac after a year of development, and are now scheduling the release for this new product for Monday, September 27th. Yes, finally Mac users will no longer be second class Act! citizens on your...

Written by Ken Quigley

September 21 2021

In January of this year we released "Handheld Contact Basic" as part of our API series of products. As much as we've been committed to adding features to the leading mobile solution for Act!, we thought a simpler, lighter and cheaper solution that contained user's contacts and calendars would be welcome by some. This new version wasn't so much a...