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ACT! 2007
by Sage
This is the small group version of ACT! that you can buy in
Sam's Club and other retail locations.
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ACT! 2007
(Non-Premium Version)
If
you have fewer than five users, or if your users are not networked, ACT!
2007's non-premium version will be a great low cost solution for your
contact management needs.
This version of ACT! has SQL Server
2005 Express Edition backend database and is limited to 10 named users.
This version of ACT! lacks some workgroup functionality included in
ACT! 2007 Premium for Workgroups.
Organize
Your Contacts
ACT! is a single, central repository for critical contact and
customer information captured across your business. It enables you to access
detailed contact and customer information, manage calendars and activities,
capture all customer communications, track opportunities through the sales
process, and report on overall effectiveness.
- Track complete customer data: contact details, notes and history,
appointments and to-do items, documents, and new opportunities.
- Populate 60+ pre-defined fields including Name, Company, Phone,
Address, Web site, E-mail, and ID/Status, or add your own.
- Enter virtually unlimited date- and time-stamped notes and history.
View a list of notes and/or see the entire contents of a note with
split-panel note preview.
- Create Company Records and view a roll-up of notes, history, and
opportunities tied to contacts at those companies.
- Use the Groups feature to easily organize, communicate, and schedule
with related contacts.
- Attach documents directly into Activities, History, or Documents
tabs. Even when you are in Microsoft Word and Excel
, you can attach documents and spreadsheets to ACT! contacts so it’s
easy to quickly locate presentations, proposals, quotes, and more.
- Create notes, history, activity, and opportunity details using Rich
Text Formatting that supports colors, bullets, graphics, URLs. Customize
your layouts, including changing colors, adding logos, and moving
relevant field displays for greater visibility so ACT! is unique to your
business.
Stay in Touch
Track all of your critical contact and customer communications on
the Contact Record for quick and easy referencing. Utilize the ACT! E-mail
Client integrated with Lotus Notes or Microsoft Outlook Express, or
integrated directly with Outlook to send outbound e-mails to contacts and
create contact history on the Contact Record. ACT! Mail Merge allows you to
correspond with multiple contacts, either via e-mail or paper
correspondence, and automatically track a history on each Contact record.
- Track customer correspondence for a history of all communications
with a contact and its organization.
- Quickly identify the last communication with a contact from the
Contact Detail View with the Last Reach, Last Attempt, Last Meeting,
Last Letter, and Last E-mail fields.
- Write letters in ACT! using Microsoft Word
or the ACT! built-in Word Processor which supports tables, graphics,
HTML, and spell checking.
- Select a group of contacts and perform a mail merge to a letter or
e-mail. A history is automatically generated on each Contact Record.
- Use pre-formatted templates to save time on e-mails, letters, and
memos. Easily customize the HTML graphical templates to e-mail
customers.
- Create, send, and track e-mail to/from contacts using ACT! E-mail
Client integrated with Microsoft Outlook Express or Lotus Notes or
integrated directly with Outlook and create a history for all e-mails
sent.

- Utilize direct Outlook e-mail integration from within ACT! to send
messages.

Prioritize
Your Work
Stay on top of your deliverables with multiple Calendar views
within ACT!, including Daily and a customizable Work Week view. Calls,
meetings, and to-do items can be filtered by priority, date range or user,
even displaying totals for each type of activity. And, Activity Alarms will
help you stay on top of all your time-sensitive deliverables.
- Schedule calls, meetings, and to-dos quickly and easily.
- Filter calls, meetings, and to-do items by priority, date range, or
user.
- Access Daily, Weekly, and Monthly Calendar views.
- Calendar pop-ups make it easy to view activity details instantly by
mousing over any activity for an "at-a-glance" view.
- Use Activity Alarms to stay on top of deliverables.
- Schedule recurring activities at once for repeat tasks. Activities
are linked to one another so a date change in one can push out other
activities.
- Synchronize your ACT! and Microsoft Outlook
calendars to facilitate appointment scheduling with company employees
not using ACT!.
Track
Sales Opportunities
ACT! enables you to track sales opportunities from initial inquiry
through close utilizing the standard sales process or a process customized
to suit your business. When working an opportunity, simply click follow-up
and a new activity will be created automatically with the opportunity
details – ensuring the prospect is managed as it moves through the process.
View and report on all your sales opportunities so you always know where you
stand.
- Use the built-in sales process or customize it to suit your specific
needs.
- View all sales opportunities at once or filter by Users, Estimated
Close Date, Status, Sales Stage, Amount, or Probability of Close.
- Use the Product List to easily enter repeated products or services
and automatically fill in information such as name, item number, cost,
and price.
- Generate instant quotes
for any opportunity without having to re-key information.
- View graphical Sales Pipeline and drill down to see opportunity
details.
- Choose from 20+ pre-formatted Sales Reports or export to Microsoft
Excel with one click for further analysis using built-in, customizable
pivot tables.
Report
on Activities
Instantly access every important contact or detail using advanced
Lookups or Keyword Searches. At the end of the week or month, it’s easy to
report on activities with one of 40 standard reports that ship with ACT!, 20
of which are specifically focused on sales activities.
- Perform a lookup on most fields or use Advanced Keyword Search and
ACT! will highlight the keyword in particular note, history, activity,
or opportunity.
- Perform numeric lookups such as greater than or less than queries
and easily edit a row or rows within the query to better suit your
search needs.
- Access 40 standard reports including Phone Lists, Activity Reports,
Referral Source, and Sales Summaries.
- Use the Report Designer to create custom reports and send most
reports to Excel,
HTML, PDF, or e-mail.
- Customize Priority, Activity, and History types for better tracking
and analysis.
Information
on the Go
Take your critical contact and customer information with you so you
can be more productive, whether you are in the office or on the road. With
ACT!, you can link to a Palm OS or Pocket PC device so you have the
information you need at all times.
- Synchronize your ACT! Calendar, Contact and To-Do information,
Notes, and History items to Palm OS or Pocket PC devices.
- Print over 20 templates designed for popular paper organizers so you
always have your schedule with you.
- Print from any ACT! calendar template and the contact phone number
for any scheduled call is automatically printed on the calendar.
- Access critical contact and customer details through Citrix® or
Terminal Services
when out of the office.
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