Act! Reviews & Product Details

ACT! was very easy to use, and the integration with the mass email software was seamless.

Mass updates were time consuming and sometimes confusing. Ofter times, I would need to call ACT! support for help.

Keeping in touch with Clients and leads.

The title say it all. I can customize my layout to no end. When I do have an issue and get to customer service, they are always pleasant and helpful.

There are some functions I cannot do from a remote database, and some I cannot do from the web verson.

I store a lot of information about our customer base. The sorting (look-up) functions are really helpful.

Ease of use and the way it helps with follow-ups and reminders. Very nice

it's easy to use and easy to install. I am switching to Act Cloud.

It keeps my sales force on point with follow-up and record-keeping. It helps with the letter import and tracking time.

I have been using ACT for 19 years. It is a great program with tons of bells and whistles. We use ACT for our marketing team. We load databases into the ACT program to work with our marketing campaigns. Our team is able to create beautiful reports to send to clients. You have tons of features that you can use on the ACT program - depending on needs.

ACT is continually upgrading their software and requiring companies to update or lose their support. The upgrade process is a strain on businesses who are satisfied with the product as is.

Marketing and sales require continual documentation to keep up with appointments and contacts. Their CRM has great tools and alarms to help businesses keep up appointments and tasks at hand.

It works, straight out of the box, and requires minimal configuration and no programming experience. It's also quite fast! No additional expenses for consultants are needed.

At the time we used it, there was no cloud option and no app. We used VPN and Terminal Services to give our distributed workforce access. This presented problems for those thousands of miles away.

We used it as our CRM database, where we logged phone, email, and mailings contact with each customer. It allowed everyone, from sales to technical, to see the history of the customer before contacting them.

Working with ACT, I have my entire sales database at my fingertips. I can see the history of the account. This will prepare me for a call or a meeting, as well as keynotes that I will need. The goal is the meeting and sale to be successful. I can coordinate multiple task lists to make sure that they are completed in the timely manner that was promised to the customer.

Sometimes speed is an issue, but that depends on the device or WiFi I am running with.

Organization of historical data and new accounts information

Ability to customize database, fields, and reports. Also captures all activity...phone, email, documents

Nothing really! Product meets or exceeds all my expectations.

Keeping track of my clients, activities, and tracking proposals and closed business.

WHAT CAN I FIND BY COMPANY, BY CONTACT, BY STATE OR COUNTRY BY E MAIL WHO I'M LOOKING FOR

AS I HAVE MANY PENDING CALLS SOMETIMES I AM DIFFICULT TO CHANGE QUICKLY FROM ONE CONTACT TO ANOTHER OR SOMETIMES LIKE THAT IT WORKS

I HAVE A LOT OF ORDER IN MY WORK AND IT IS VERY EASY TO FIND THE CUSTOMER I AM LOOKING FOR AND WITH THIS I MAKE MY WORK FASTER. MY PROBLEM IS THAT SOMETIMES A LITTLE BUT I HAVE TO CLOSE AND OPEN AGAIN. I WOULD LIKE THAT THE SAME PROGRAM WILL ELIMINATE THE CALLS, CLIENTS OR DUTIES APPLIED AND I DON'T KNOW HOW TO CARRY OUT THIS LAST STEP

Flexible organization of all my contact history and ease of access Also, immediate and excellent tech support whenever I call

Difficult to customize layout of the screen I use most often

I can group and organize all my contacts regarding genealogy; notes; attachments.

I like it that you have to take action on all tasks and to do's you can reschedule if needed and delete them but then you just kidding yourself

I don't really dislike anything however getting to grips with some of the new features when adding them can be a bit time consuming

Act ensures that any enquires and actions required are done when required

We are a small business using ACT. We like the ease of use and the way it works with our email system to record email interactions with our customers. Customization is easy to do and lets you tailor ACT to your specific business requirements. I definitely recommend ACT to any business looking to get ahead.

Setting everything up by yourself would be difficult. I would highly recommend hiring an ACT certified consultant to keep you ahead of anything new and help move through any technical difficulties. I would like some more features added to the new ACT E-marketing, SwiftPage used to have a survey feature that is no longer available with ACT E-marketing. Bring it back. ACT needs management to be good and effective. Having an in-house ACT manager will make ACT more effective and easier to use. I always say that ACT is only as good as the information that is inputted. You need complete buy in from your team.

We are keeping track of customers making it easy for everyone in the office to be on the same page in terms of where a customer is at. ACT E-marketing makes it easy to keep customers informed of what is new at Cameron Instruments. We can keep track of our sales team by using the opportunities, they can keep track of sales and where they are at for the month. They can easily track long-term opportunities.

The features are comprehensive and the ease of use is why it's my favorite CRM solution.

Any lacking features have usually been addressed in updates.

I have multiple projects in progress at any given time. I maintain various databases in ACT for each client / project. ACT is invaluable for me to keep track of the history, tasks to be completed, and opportunity I have for each prospect. The ease of use of ACT features is important to me. For advanced features, there is a wide range of documentation and user manuals available on the market.

The ability to customize the fields to fit my business.

The Mobile App needs a lot of work...would love to see it more like the desktop version. I'm not able to use in it's current state

Keeping track of the history with my clients is a huge benefit.

I'm old school, so I like the desktop version; however, I travel alot, so it's nice to be able to use this program anywhere I have an internet connection.

Not an ACT! problem, but if I don't have a good internet speed, it takes me a while to access information.

I love that my names and addresses are available for me anytime day or night.

The technician was patient, knowledgeable and very easy to work with.

That I had to contact support for help - but it turned out GREAT!

Remote database access

Act is very customizable. You can make it work exactly how it needs to for your business.

It sometimes overlaps data. Sometimes you can be in one record within the database and other data will be in there that is not accurate

ACT has made my job extremely easier. It allows for me to keep track of talks that need to be done, create reports for my company, and makes sure we have all of the info we need for customers

I am able to schedule on behalf of my employees and boss no matter where they are. They can see immediate changes as long as I sync throughout the day

The calendar times change every time you log on from the web.

To solve the time changes when logging onto the WEB, I type all date and time details

The ability to query the system or export to an Excel sheet.

Nothing that I can think of at this time.

Maintaining a membership database. Benefit is to be able to query and export informatino.

Search capability of nearly all fields, integration with Outlook and Gmail, single place for organizing all sorts of contact and company data, accessible from Web, Windows and mobile.

The program is not without bugs, like all software but ACT has an excellent online knowledge-base and end user community who support each other and provide fixes for known issues.

CRM functions, mailing lists, keeping track of contact points with various contacts, clients and company records. Storage of important documents tied to either a contact or a company.

Overall it is by far the best contact manager I have used. The ability to group, and have a large database is better than any other. the interface with Google and Outlook is much improved.

Not much. Scanning business cards is not as easy.

Best phone book, and abilty to market to customers.