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2.0 out of 5 stars Good Start, not ready for prime time., January 29, 2006

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Otownkayaker (Orlando, Fl United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: QuickBooks Customer Manager 2.x (CD-ROM)

While this program is a good start for a simple CRM it still has a long way to go.
It has two major flaws and several minor ones that I have found so far. The first major flaw is that it's data is not being shared real time with Quickbooks. I suppose they did this so that it can be used standalone, but who would really do that? If you're going to use a standalone product wouldn't you go out and find something else? The real reason you're using this product is because it's Quickbooks and you want tight integration with your Quickbooks DB.
The second major flaw is that it won't sync it's tasks with MS Outlook. This is HUGE for me. I use a PDA that keeps all of my tasks and it's where I enter all my new tasks while on the road (Which is 90% of the time). So if I wanted to use this application, I'd have to keep 2 separate task lists. Not a viable option. Their KB says that there is no way to sync tasks with MS Outlook, but many other products are out there that do.
It advertises itself as being this great interface between your Quickbooks and Outlook but it just doesn't hold up.
The minor flaws I've found so far (and I've just been using the app for 1 day) are:
1. Outlook emails are supposed to show up in your CM records, but they don't (at least for me). I have searched their KB for an answer to this.
2. If you select a record on your homepage under "recent names" and select remove, it actually deletes the entire record and doesn't just remove it from the "recent names" list. This ends up giving you a huge unmanageable list of items that you just don't use because you can't clean up the list (like you can with Windows start button recently used programs list").
3. Even though I followed the instructions that were given for syncing Quickbooks with Customer Manager without manually opening QB it doesn't work. I have to open it up every time manually every time I sync.

I think the application has a lot of potential, but needs a good bit of work before it becomes a viable option for most in the Small Business world.

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2.0 out of 5 stars ehhh, December 2, 2008

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Heathro - See all my reviews

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This review is from: QuickBooks Customer Manager 2.x (CD-ROM)

This didn't satisfy my needs. I didn't like the setup, not very "user friendly". I got my money back from Intuit within 30 days.

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