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ACT! Link 2.0 for Use with QuickBooks

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I'm an ACT! Certified Consultant and a QuickBooks Professional Advisor. This was a heavily requested product!

Lots of business people use both ACT! and QuickBooks, and it's a drain on their time to type a name & address into one product, then retype it again into the other product.

Installation is a snap. Then you have to go into QuickBooks/Preferences to tell it that another program can access it. Within ACT!, a tab is automatically added for QuickBooks information. You run ACT! first then start up QuickBooks and voila!

One caveat is that you can only move one contact at a time. One client said, 'no big deal' and moved 200 customers from ACT! to QuickBooks. It truly was no big deal because the link actually works. Previous links which claimed to move all the data did not work.

Another caveat was discovered by a client who uses QuickBooks Enterprise, a corporate product. This link will not recognize the Enterprise user privledges.

This is a great solution. I use it almost daily for my own business and clients love it too.

It's a good thing there are none available. I brought it used and am unable to install it on my computer. I get an error message that doesn't make sense, since I have already installed the ACT software required to support ACT! LINK. I have e-mailed SAGE and got no response. Use caution when purchasing this version, as I believe the problem might be that ACT! Link 2.0 for Use with QuickBooks is not compatable with QuickBooks Pro 2008.

I must add, my business partners have had no complaints. In fact they love it. Maybe I will too, if I ever get to use it.

As an ACT! Certified Consultant, I worked alongside the programmer that wrote this connector back in the day. Even if the latest "ACT! Link for use with QuickBooks® 4.0" is not being sold or supported by Sage, you still are in luck. - There are several plug in solutions "Sage ACT! Link to QuickBooks" although none are currently sold on Amazon.

Where do you find it? Search on the internet for plugin "Sage ACT! Link to QuickBooks" or perhaps your local ACT consultant can help. BTW Integrations can be tricky - Even if you are DIY-minded I strongly recommend your review your contact data and make it as 'clean' as possible on both databases. Also make sure they can 'talk' to each other. This means the link needs recent and compatible versions of both QuickBooks and Sage ACT!

It's worth it -- get the wonderful boost to productivity!

QUESTION!!!
Does it work for toggling back and forth with QuickBooks for the Mac (OSX) Computer to Palm Pilot (Tungsten E w/ software 5.0)? Since I have read about various compatibility issues between the Mac and PC versions of QB, I wanted to make sure ACT would work for me before I buy it sine I have a Mac. Anyone?

Thanks!!!