ACT! 6.0 - 5 User

by Interact Commerce Corp

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B00006ISGN
• Date first available at Amazon.com: August 13, 2002
• Average Customer Review: 1.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #13,959 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Amazon.com Review

Imagine Outlook on steroids and you're halfway to understanding what you can do with ACT! 6.0. Installation can take a little planning, as you can't start using ACT! until you have registered it via the Internet or by printing out your registration details. If your PC has neither a printer nor an Internet connection, beware. It is also essential to look through the Readme file before you start using ACT! to ensure you understand how it integrates with other applications. On the plus side, it does include a printed manual so you can find out what it does without having to wade through the online help.

Once installed, you can either start entering your data manually or use the import wizard to import data from an existing source. ACT! allows you to store a vast array of information about your contacts. You can even attach letters and documents that relate to a given contact. Key to ACT! are the sales and opportunities features that allow you to keep track of where you are with each contact. ACT! can either be used as a standalone tool, or a work group can share a single database, with individual usernames and passwords.

Where ACT! really excels is in its ability to integrate with existing applications. From within ACT! you can send e-mails using the software's own e-mail function, or with Outlook or Outlook Express. You can also send faxes with WinFax Pro. Documents can be created using ACT! or your usual word processing program. With suitable hardware you can even have your phone dial your contacts with a single mouse click.

Finally, ACT! includes a tool that allows you to synchronize data between different databases. This lets laptop users update their local records and then have the changes copied to the office master file.

ACT! is just the thing for any individual or business that has sophisticated contact and task tracking needs. The integration with your existing applications, plus the sales-orientated features, make for a powerful combination. --Iain Laskey, Amazon.co.uk

Note: This is the 5-user version.

Amazon.com Product Description

ACT! 6.0 organizes all your customer information in one place to give you instant access to every detail of every customer relationship. You'll be able to find anyone or any detail in seconds, including names, phone numbers, addresses, notes from previous conversations, upcoming appointment details, call histories, a list of follow-up activities, and much more.

ACT! even manages your sales pipeline with forecasting tools and built-in reports, and allows you to safely share complete customer information with your workgroup. It works with Outlook, handhelds, and paper planners to propel your business to a whole new level.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Been and ACT user for 8 years, but this is the pits, March 4, 2005

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Michael L. Chaudron (Johnson City, TN United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: ACT! 6.0 - 5 User (CD-ROM)

I've been a faithful user of ACT since 1998. I've always found it intutive and an absolute must for my sales activities. I've been such a big proponent of ACT that I often recommend it during my company's sales consulting practice. I've attended several one day training courses from ACT approved training centers to improve my operating of the software.

I've always upgraded shortly after ACT has brought a new version to market. The changes have always been minimal, but you could always see the improvements from one version to the other and they always made sense. The improvements have made ACT easier to use and much easier to use with Outlook.

I decided to do the trial version of the newest ACT to see how I would like it......and I didn't.

What a disaster. The only positive point was that I kept my ACT 2004 as a seperate program and am I glad I did.

The new version of Act was slow, clunky, very unintutitive and hard to operate. I lost all ability to synch with Outlook. It is a disaster. I hope ACT will improve the system before jaming a new one down our throats. I bet I get an email once a week urging me to upgrade and how the price will go up if I don't. After the trial session I wouldn't upgrade if they gave it to me.

Stick with your older version of ACT until they get the major problems with the new version repaired.

Shame on you ACT for bringing a product to market that is vastly inferior to your older versions.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars My Experience with ACT, January 14, 2005

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Jack "CIO" (CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: ACT! 6.0 - 5 User (CD-ROM)

I'v been using ACT for 2 years. No considerable complaints with ACT6 but when I upgraded to ACT 2005. It's too slow. Time-is-money and waisting time with it I wasting too much money. I'm out now. I'll better go to Terrasoft CRM or wait for Goldmine7.
Jack

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Please run as far away as you can if you see ACT! software!, January 24, 2005

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Bryan R. Wallace "Bryan" (New Hampshire) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: ACT! 6.0 - 5 User (CD-ROM)

I am a long time user of ACT! software from the time it was a DOS program. It has become progressively worse. One of their key elements is the email programm which allows the user to send out emails to their contacts which automatically drops the email into their history file. This feature often either does not work or it crashes the program. There are many other detailed features of the email portion that do not work. The latest release of 7.0 is so filled with bugs as to almost render it unusable not only in the email area but also the contact database section. I am continuing with it only because I have so much time invested. I would not recommend this software to anyone under any circunstances. Their tech support is non-existent, you have to buy their yearly support plan just to get anyone on the phone and then when you cone to the end of a long session and discover that the problem is not solvable, their answer is that "they're working on a solution, we don't know when it will be addressed". This is about $300. It appears that BEST Software allows ACT! to be released without proper testing and with known bugs. It is interesting to note that ACT! 7.0 is not offered on Amazon. In closing, ACT! is a complete and utter time waste.