Written by Ken Quigley

May 03 2021

Accounting and CRM have always been a natural coupling. CRM products generally manage pipeline data for pre-sales and projected sales, while accounting manages actual sales data, or what can be described as "post sales". It is for this reason that Keystroke is so excited to announce the acquisition of two of the Act! industries leading QuickBooks...

Written by Ken Quigley

April 15 2021

Since we acquired the three Topline add-ons a few weeks back, there have been many concerned calls and emails from past Topline customers looking to get more licensing. As most who have been following these developments are aware, we've recompiled all three add-on products, Designer, Dash, and Alerts, and posted them on our site for sale. And...

Written by Ken Quigley

March 27 2021

As some of our visitors will know, Keystroke owns and manages the Act! Marketplace, the largest collection of Act! Add-ons anywhere in the world, with over two hundred products from 18 different developers. For the last few years the domain used for this site the Actaddonshop.com, with a number of other domains redirected to it. The history of...

Written by Ken Quigley

March 24 2021

We are pleased to announce that Keystroke has reached an agreement with Topline Results to purchase all their Act! add-ons, namely Designer, Dash, and Alerts. Topline Results was one of the original leaders in producing Act! add-ons, and we’re proud to add the following powerful products to our customer offerings.  Dash: Powerful and...

Written by Ken Quigley

March 11 2021

Yesterday we received notice from BriteVerify (Validity.com) that they are making changes to the payment terms with their service. Previously our Opt-Manager & Link2list subscribers would create an API Key from the Validity.com website, and input it into one of those services/applications. This integration won't change, but the sequence of...

Written by Ken Quigley

March 11 2021

Last week Act! launched Act! Premium v23 for both desktop and web in the UK and Europe, and today (March 11th) is the scheduled launch date for North America. This is the first new full release of Act! Premium since November 2019, and reflects a strong commitment to quality more than new features. In fact, this release will be the first version...

Written by Ken Quigley

March 08 2021

Starting April 1st Act! will be provisioning all renewing Act! Premium subscriptions with a free Act! Marketing Automation Basic account to help them grow their business. AMA Basic is a new entry-level tier of AMA similar in features to Growth Suite Starter introduced in 2019. With the recent sunsetting of Act! eMarketing (AEM) program at the end...

Written by Ken Quigley

March 07 2021

In response to feedback from our Act! Certified Consultants (ACC's) about overwhelming instances of SPAM, we have decided to make the Act! Community Forum a channel-only tool at this time. Therefore, we are in the process of removing the Community Forum links from our www.act.com website. ACCs will continue to have uninterrupted access to...

Written by Ken Quigley

February 08 2021

In early to mid-March Act! is expected to release Act! Premium v23 for both desktop and web. This is the first new full release of Act! Premium since November 2019, and reflects a commitment to quality more than new features. In fact, this release will be the first version since 2005 that a new version won't involve a schema change. This fact will...

Written by Ken Quigley

February 02 2021

Act! Pro hosting is a relatively new thing for Act! users, as Act! Pro was not designed to support hosting. Consider the fact that Act! Pro does not publish to the Internet like Act! for Web, nor does is it support Network or Internet Sync, it's quite amazing that Keystroke has overcome these technical limits to deliver Pro hosting...