Written by Ken Quigley

June 27 2019

Handheld Contact supports business card scanning as a means of adding contact data to your Act! Database, but it does not provide the scanning engine itself. Handheld Contact’s role in this process is to import in new contacts from the devices native address book, allowing subscribers to use whatever card scanning service they choose. Recommended...

Written by Ken Quigley

June 02 2019

I'm a big Echo fan, as I have about ten of them spread across the home and office. However, whether I use Alexa, Siri, or some other voice assisted service to schedule an activity, I love how I can use Handheld Contact to pull them into Act!. For example, yesterday I invited my mother and niece to breakfast on Sunday, and the workflow followed...

Written by Ken Quigley

May 05 2019

New quoting features, proximity search, calendar importing, and HHC Restore are coming to a mobile device near you! Some exciting changes are being introduced with Handheld Contact this week, making the #1 Act! mobile experience more complete than ever before. Quoting/Invoicing: Ever finish a meeting with a prospect that ends with you saying...

Written by Ken Quigley

March 04 2019

Handheld Contact released two major device updates today, with Android v3.1.7.0 now live at Google Play store, and version 8.3.3 for IOS expected out in the next few days. Changes in the Android release: NEW: Removed "READ_CALL_LOG" and "WRITE_CALL_LOG" permission as per new Google's policy.  As a result of this, the following Handheld Contact...

Written by Ken Quigley

January 28 2019

As the publisher of Handheld Contact we’ve been hesitant to offer a detailed comparison of our mobile service and Act! Companion – Swiftpage’s mobile client for Premium subscribers. Our hesitation was based not strictly on appearing overly biased, but perhaps criticizing a service that was not yet fully built. However, as we round out the second...

Written by Ken Quigley

January 15 2019

Handheld Contact is pleased to announce three separate releases today - separate builds for both Android and IOS, and an update to our Windows Console, all of which represent the biggest across the board upgrade to our subscription offerings in over a year. These changes are as follows: Handheld Contact Windows Console - version 4.2.5.0 Fixed...

Written by Ken Quigley

January 07 2019

With two new versions of Handheld Contact scheduled for release this week, thought it fitting to review all the changes we've introduced to the #1 mobile application for Act! over the last 18 months. In June 2017 we started a complete rebuild of Handheld Contact on a new platform.  This was done so we could add many new features which were...

Written by Ken Quigley

September 12 2018

We are very excited to announce the release of HHC 8.2, the latest IOS build for Handheld Contact.  Added ability to trigger "Resend All Data" from device Included visibility to all device sync history, allowing users to see what data was included in the last sync, as well as the last 24 and 48 hours Notes & Histories data technology was...

Written by Fajar Chandra

June 12 2018

Handheld Contact for Android v3.1.3.0- Added ability to choose whether to save history from incoming calls to Act! or not- Added ability to choose how to set date/time of the history when activity is cleared- Better handling of incoming phone numbers- Fixed bug where history of incoming calls was saved with last opened contact instead with My...

Written by Fajar Chandra

May 28 2018

Changes in this build: Version 3.1.2.1 * NEW: Added ability to request Send all data from Handheld Contact computer application (requires Handheld Contact Computer app version 4.2.2.0 or higher) * NEW: Handheld Contact is now able to save history from incoming calls * NEW: Added ability to process and sync multi select drop-down lists for...