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Awesome integration with other apps.
Avaliado em 22/05/2018
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I'm able to integrate with MS Outlook, and sync within my Ipad and Google phone. Your costumer support is awesome with it's followup and addressing and any issues I may have. Deserves more than 5 stars!
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Software pricing is becoming an issue as less expensive models are out there that competes with Act. Need to consider reduction pricing for those loyal customers like myself since 2006. Needs to come up with a better less tedious way of merging contact duplicates.
- Setor: Seguros
- Porte da empresa: 2 - 10 funcionários
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- Probabilidade de recomendação 9.0 /10
ACT! for Insurance/Financial Advisors
Avaliado em 14/10/2020
I love all the features that meet the needs of financial advisors. The customizable fields are...
I love all the features that meet the needs of financial advisors. The customizable fields are beneficial and improve the overall use of the software. It has probably just as many features as other customer relations management programs but cost is substantially less. Very happy with my selection.
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The Act! for Advisors software has been modified to meet the requirements of a financial advisor which includes being able to input information regarding insurance contracts. The new Marketing Automation is an great way to send out Newsletters, etc.
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They have lots of online resources/video's to learn the Marketing Automation. You can also speak to customer service but they recently cut their remote access where you can have customer service work on your computer to help answer/show you how to do things with the marketing automation.
- Setor: Alimentação e bebidas
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Constant glitches, awful customer service
Avaliado em 11/09/2014
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At this moment, I am struggling to think of anything positive to say about my Act! experience. Both my boss and I have had problems since we bought it. I have lost entire days' worth of sales time on the phone with their tech support trying to fix issue after issue. And to make matters worse, they keep telling me to give them more money if I want better, faster, more competent customer service. All I want is for the program to work correctly and do what they promised it would do!
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This program is seriously glitchy, and the customer service experience has been bad. I have spent countless hours on the phone trying to get issues resolved. And to add insult to injury, they keep telling me that if I want better customer service and faster, more professional support I need to give them more money. If you believe in your product then, stand behind it and fix it. My boss and I have spent enough time (and money via lost sales revenue) dealing with Act's technical issues already, so I wish they would stop telling me we need to shell out more.
After two days on the phone with them, having been escalated to their Level 3 support guy, my Outlook started to have problems immediately after hanging up with him. I have never had a single problem with Outlook since I started using it. Over the last two days, three different tiers of tech support have remotely accessed my laptop, gone into my Outlook as administrators, and messed around with it. Though they managed to fix the mail merge issues I was initially having with Act!, they clearly messed up my Outlook along the way. Now they claim it is a complete coincidence that Outlook started sending me error messages the moment I hung up with their top tier tech guy. They keep telling me the problems are not related, it is solely the problem of Outlook, they are not experts in Outlook, and I should call Outlook's tech support for help.
Clearly, it is not a coincidence or unrelated. And clearly, they are confident enough in their Outlook expertise to go into my program and mess with it. And as tech support for a software program that works with Outlook, they should be trained and qualified to work with Outlook in the first place. I have asked repeatedly to have their top tier guy call me back. He knows what he did, so he should be able to track down his mistake and fix it. But they keep saying they can't do that without me shelling out more money.
As if all of that wasn't enough, during my last conversation with their support, I had to force the rep to stop trying to get me off the phone and to fix the new problem that had cropped up with Act! just today: the loss of my email history. It took her close to an hour, and she finally discovered that my email history was now gone from Act! because one of the three techs who has remotely accessed my computer over the last two days accidentally replaced my database with a demo database. And even in light of that, she still tried to say that the issue with Outlook had nothing to do with anything their tech staff did. She continued to insist it was all just a coincidence.
I told her I felt the time had come to talk to a supervisor, and I asked her to put one on the phone. After placing me on hold once again, she finally came back and said a supervisor was unavailable, and one would have to call me back in 10 minutes. It ended up taking close to an hour to hear from him. He did finally fix the Outlook problem, but when I asked him what I should do if the error messages come back in an hour or two, he said I had to start all over again from the bottom. The whole routine: wait on hold, start with a low-level tech, slowly work up the ladder, all of it. That or pay the fee.
The next day, the Outlook error message came back! And I had to lose that day as well trying to get them to fix it. I spoke to my boss, and he said the same thing happened to him a while back, where they tried to blame Outlook. So my boss said he started a conference call with the Act! tech guy and the Microsoft tech guy on the phone at the same time, and lo and behold, the problem turned out to be with ACT, not Microsoft.
- Setor: Fabricação elétrica/eletrônica
- Porte da empresa: 2 - 10 funcionários
- Usado Diariamente durante Mais de dois anos
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- Probabilidade de recomendação 7.0 /10
A GOOD STABLE BASE FOR CRM ... JUST WISH ENHANCING WAS A LITTLE EASIER
Avaliado em 31/10/2019
We need ACT, and it is the core of what we do. We would like to see ways that we can add depth and...
We need ACT, and it is the core of what we do. We would like to see ways that we can add depth and richness to a good platfrom
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I like the fact that a team of 5 can share effectively in real time, I like the ease of changing layouts and adding fields, and with Seamless the ablity to easily prdcue high quality documenation. It's link to outlook and ODBC is good and it is a stable, which being at the core of our business is a good thing
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There are many things I think we could do to be more productive but can't, and we do see fields being changed or lost "by themselves". The web version was a poor version of the Pro, and we haven't been able to make it available when offline, which is a frustration.
Alternativas consideradas
Salesforce Sales CloudSoftware anterior
Salesforce Sales CloudRazões para mudar para o Act!
Much better value for money, and lower overall overheads meant better for us as a asmall business- Setor: Nanotecnologia
- Porte da empresa: 51 - 200 funcionários
- Usado Diariamente durante Mais de dois anos
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- Probabilidade de recomendação 7.0 /10
Good first CRM
Avaliado em 18/01/2023
Positive experience and we are using the custom fields. I wish you could make some fields limited...
Positive experience and we are using the custom fields. I wish you could make some fields limited based on other field inputs. ACT! is great if you are just getting into CRM and want to get your business up and running quickly, this is one of the reasons it is such a popular choice. They have been doing CRM for a very long time.
Vantagens
Easy to setup and have customized fields. They have an option to run on your own server to avoid monthly fees of other CRM options.
Desvantagens
Once you have over 10,000 contacts. It is harder and slower to organize CRM. Works much better for smaller contact lists.
Alternativas consideradas
Salesforce Sales CloudRazões para mudar para o Act!
Cost of alternatives were much higher for similar features.Resposta do Act!
Hey thanks Andrew, it sounds like Act! is helping you out. You're helping us out by spreading the word - so thanks for taking the time to share!

- Setor: Construção
- Porte da empresa: 2 - 10 funcionários
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ACT was the best back in the day
Avaliado em 25/03/2022
It was a great program at the time. I really liked it but grew out of it when it wasn't being...
It was a great program at the time. I really liked it but grew out of it when it wasn't being updated as quickly as the rest of the internet.
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I loved ACT when I used to use it. It was by far the best CRM at the time.
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Last time I used ACT and granted it was many years ago, it wasn't cloud based. At one point my computer crashed and I lost my entire ACT database that hadn't been backed up in the last few weeks. I was devastated and decided I had to switch to something that was in the cloud.
Resposta do Act!
Hi Rick, Thank you for your review and feedback! We love hearing from our customers and hope you'll check out our Act! cloud platform at https://act.com/customizable-crm-and-marketing-automation/.
Kind regards,
The Act! Team
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- Probabilidade de recomendação 6.0 /10
I have used ACT! Vs 18 for a little over a year for a client. I will say it has its ups and...
Avaliado em 23/06/2018
It does allow you set appointments and manage client information. But, it is very time consuming...
It does allow you set appointments and manage client information. But, it is very time consuming and you have to do a lot of steps to get what you are wanting out of it.
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This software doesn't require a monthly charge (if you have the desktop version) It allows you to create customized reports and input more information then you possibly could need.
Desvantagens
This software has several Cons, One of the biggest is that its not user friendly so much. it takes you a long time to figure out how to use functions. I had trouble when I fist started using it. Also, when I wanted up upload excel spreadsheets of client info into the CRM. I had to buy an "Add On" which I think should of been something included in the program.

- Setor: Hospitais e Saúde
- Porte da empresa: 201 - 500 funcionários
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- Probabilidade de recomendação 2.0 /10
It is a useful application if you are a solo individual not needing integration.
Avaliado em 28/11/2017
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There seems to be a lot of functionality and ability to work in-depth with contacts and the information provided with the contacts.
Desvantagens
It is not easy to have more than one person work off of the same database and keep everything integrated. We sync with Gmail and at this time it only allows for one account to sync email messages. We can sync the contacts to multiple accounts with the help of a third party software but only one for the Gmail messages.

- Setor: Hardware
- Porte da empresa: 51 - 200 funcionários
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- Probabilidade de recomendação 6.0 /10
Its okay - there are better cloud based options...
Avaliado em 04/12/2018
I am the admin and a user as I am in ti everyday. I administer users and do training.
I am the admin and a user as I am in ti everyday. I administer users and do training.
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Easy to use - feels familiar even on first use and isn't hard to get started.
Desvantagens
Cumbersome and slow. Once you start getting thousands of contacts in the system get use to watching the hourglass. Server needs to be restarted weekly. Their cloud based solution is lacking in features and not as mobile friendly as other options.
- Setor: Rádio e televisão
- Porte da empresa: 11 - 50 funcionários
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- Probabilidade de recomendação 6.0 /10
ACT! great for a season
Avaliado em 13/02/2018
the ability to store account information and contacts. we also kept notes so that we would know why...
the ability to store account information and contacts. we also kept notes so that we would know why a certain client canceled.
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I like the simplicity of the platform, training users was simple and adoption relatively painless. Also the data was able to be stored locally which was nice.
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What i don't like is what happened when we decided to move on from ACT to a different solution. Exporting notes was nearly impossible and we had to pay for a 3rd party tool to accomplish this.
- Setor: Imobiliárias
- Porte da empresa: 11 - 50 funcionários
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- Probabilidade de recomendação 7.0 /10
Long Time User
Avaliado em 31/10/2019
Because we have at least 3 people involved in one transaction, the relationship tab helps us tie...
Because we have at least 3 people involved in one transaction, the relationship tab helps us tie them together to the transaction. We can toggle back and forth easily without having to search another name. It's quick and efficient. With our customized fields, we can easily see years of history for a client on one page.
We have been frustrated over the years by the number of crashes and freezes.Occasionally an import will not import correctly and the data in put into the wrong fields. The support help and support page of the marketing automation is very poor and lacking in depth training on creating/sending eblasts. There are is no advanced level training for the eblasts and drip marketing.
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This is a robust software program. We have added many custom fields that allows us to track a lot of data really dig into for trends and statistics. We love how history is captured a for all the activity we do for and with a client. We rely on the relationship tab heavily as multiple people are involved in a transaction. We are really enjoying the new Marketing Automation. It has a lot of robust features that we are just beginning to tap into. We also like the groups feature. We have hundreds of groups that we can run reports and create statistics from. We can see how many groups a contact is part of which helpful as well. I like the statistics ACT generates from drip marketing. Knowing what emails bounced back or who opted out helps us improve our data.
Desvantagens
When searching for a person, it doesn't give you the option of having similar names - the spelling must be exact. It crashes when we are in the social updates tab. Customer Service: Often the techs are hard to understand. The time we spend on the phone with customer service on average lasts about 1/2 to an hour depending on the issue. That is a big interruption to our workflow in the office.
One thing I wish ACT would do is send to 2 emails at once. When sending out an eblast, it pulls from the email field. If there is more than one email address followed by a semicolon, it won't send to both. It bounces back.
- Setor: Publicidade e marketing
- Porte da empresa: 2 - 10 funcionários
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- Probabilidade de recomendação 10.0 /10
Very versatile
Avaliado em 01/08/2019
I have been using it non stop since the earliest versions - that should tell you that I am very...
I have been using it non stop since the earliest versions - that should tell you that I am very satisfied with it.
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I have been using ACT for over 25 years and have seen lots of versions. I like its flexibility and that I can put users into multiple groups, It would be impossible to design a program that did everything everybody wanted it to but ACT comes close. I use it for sales, marketing, personal groups I coordinate, keeping track of some of my customers' customers.
It can interact with Outlook and Google's calendar if you use either of those programs. I am a Premium member. The bad side to that is it is a little pricey - about $0 a month. The good side is that I always have the most up to date version. The customer support is wonderful if you are a premium member. Whenever Microsoft Windows has an update a lot of my programs need some adjusting. ACT requires the SQL to restart but that is a simple fix. If/when I have had issues I couldn't fix I just made a call and their support team was terrific in helping me.
I like the fact that it is cloud based so I can access it on my tablet or cell phone or any computer anywhere. At my office I use the offline version and simply update the sync to the cloud. I have it set to update overnight also. One of the features I like best is the history. It is great to be able to look back to meetings, calls etc to see what I said, did etc. The library of forms is very useful also - create a form, letter - whatever - and you have a pre printed template you can utilize for multiple clients or for just one.
It holds tons of contacts also.
Desvantagens
I wish it had more options for the ID/Status cells. The group function sort of does that but not like I need it to. Having 3, 4, 5 or more ID/Status cells would be very useful. Most of my clients fall into more than one category.
- Setor: Serviços jurídicos
- Porte da empresa: Profissional autônomo
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- Probabilidade de recomendação 7.0 /10
I used to love Act!, but now I'm looking for a better product that actually works for me
Avaliado em 02/02/2023
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I have been using Act! for decades via its various owners and takeovers. It served me well in sales and marketing, and now I use it to track my legal clients and court hearings, trials, etc.
Desvantagens
It does not work in Windows 11, which came with my new computer. Your Tech Support was no help, telling me simply that Microsoft knows about it and "someday" will have a fix. Meanwhile, with a local technician, I had to roll back to Windows 10 (hundreds of dollars paid), then I had to pay a remote Act! specialist (not your employee) to help to get it to "work" even in Windows 10. It barely works now, freezing up constantly and repeatedly throughout my workday. It is practically useless, but I bear with it until I can find another product that works for me.
Resposta do Act!
Thank you, Manuel, for your feedback. We appreciate you taking the time to let us know how Act! is working for you. We see that you had Microsoft 11 compatibility issues last fall, and according to our records, moved to Windows 10 to restore your database and functionality. We are sorry to hear you are still experiencing issues and hope that you'll reach back out to our Support team for further assistance at https://www.act.com/resources/contact/ or call 866-873-2006. In addition, we are happy to share the following Knowledgebase article published by Microsoft with more details about the issue and resolution.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/troubleshoot/sql/database-engine/database-file-operations/troubleshoot-os-4kb-disk-sector-size
- Setor: Contabilidade
- Porte da empresa: 2 - 10 funcionários
- Usado Diariamente durante Mais de dois anos
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- Probabilidade de recomendação 9.0 /10
ACT is a great software product that allows you to integrate your database and track your...
Avaliado em 11/08/2017
ACT is worth the price and worth the training to get educated on it. Unfortunately you need to...
ACT is worth the price and worth the training to get educated on it. Unfortunately you need to spend some time figuring out the details, but once you do, it is off to the races and you will love the system every day. It really is a great product.
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This product allows you to integrate the basic and most complicated processes within your business. I love the email link feature, any time I send an email to a client (who has their email in their account profile), the system automatically saves that email in the client profile. You don't have to search for it in your inbox, or click an extra button to push the details over to the profile, it all happens automatically. The icing on the cake, is now that it is in the client profile, other members of my team can see what emails I have communicated to client, and when they were sent. It helps to keep my team all on the same page. This is by far the best Client Database system I have ever used. AMAZING!
Desvantagens
The biggest downside to ACT is there is not a built in funnel email system. You have to select the group or type of clients that you want to email, export that to another database and then send the communications from there. The system will still tag your emails as long as they are sent from your domain, but having to export the list an use an additional software or service to send the mass email notifications is a little frustrating. If they can fix this option, it would make my life a lot easier.
- Setor: Serviços financeiros
- Porte da empresa: 2 - 10 funcionários
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Long time user
Avaliado em 08/03/2023
I use ACT 10 hours a day, but it is clunky.
I use ACT 10 hours a day, but it is clunky.
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I understand the interface because I have used ACT daily for over 30 years.
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ACT does almost everything poorly. It does not sync with multi-user unless you call support. You cannot move your data out of ACT onto a competitive product. They keep raising the price of support. I have tried all three different mass email programs they have offered over the years, but none of the mass email systems worked. The email system required support from ACT to make them work, and still a major problem. I have used ACT for over 30 years, have 10K contacts, and I cannot leave ACT. If you have not bought ACT, do not. If you are going to work on this everyday, pay the money and go with SalesForce.
Resposta do Act!
Kris, Thank you for letting us know about your issues with marketing automation- this is not the experience we strive to provide our customers. We hope you'll give our Support team another try. Please reach out to https://www.act.com/resources/contact/ or call 866-873-2006 so we can get a few more details, and provide some possible solutions.
- Setor: Serviços financeiros
- Porte da empresa: 11 - 50 funcionários
- Usado Diariamente durante Mais de dois anos
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- Probabilidade de recomendação 2.0 /10
Cheap product for a cheap price - plan on no tech support
Avaliado em 05/11/2021
Tech support sucks. [SENSITIVE CONTENT] , all the tech and customer support people hide. You will...
Tech support sucks. [SENSITIVE CONTENT] , all the tech and customer support people hide. You will only get a phone call back. if you dont respond, your support ticket gets closed out. Its the year 2021, but you won't get a tech support person's employee id, email address, phone number, etc because ACT!'s policy is to hide them amidst all the versions ACT keeps implementing. Ask what level technichian a support person is and watch them get upset, say they dont like they way you are treating them and they will hang up.
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it was inexpensive. but you get what you pay for.
Desvantagens
No tech support. ACT is always putting out a new version. each new version trips off problems and requires new integrations and updates that they do not tell you about and cause integration issues with all of your other software expecially microsof.
- Setor: Serviços financeiros
- Porte da empresa: 2 - 10 funcionários
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Super Disappointed
Avaliado em 10/12/2021
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I liked this software to run my credit repair business. Keep track of letter management and clients. It was easy at first.
Desvantagens
After you purchase your license, in a year or 2 they discontinue the version and you have to pay for the license all over again. I had purchase 3 licenses and wanted to purchase a 4th one and they said I couldn't that I would have to upgrade to the monthly fee version where you pay monthly per license including for the licenses I already had. Now this year they discontinued the licenses I already purchased, they want me to upgrade and pay 550 per license all over again because they have a new version and will not give support nor fixes to the older versions. This is insane. I pay them for a license so they discontinue the product and expect me to purchase all licenses again. ON top of that, it is glitchy, it continue disconnects from Outlook. You call customer support and someone in India answers and they are clue less. Every time Outlook does an update or act updates it completely looses all integration. OH, and they give you 0 customer service, you have to pay for that separately.
- Setor: Semicondutores
- Porte da empresa: Profissional autônomo
- Usado Diariamente durante Mais de dois anos
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- Probabilidade de recomendação 3.0 /10
2021 ACT v22 Review
Avaliado em 07/01/2021
Overall, from 1991 up until summer 2020, has been pretty seamless using ACT and upgrading from...
Overall, from 1991 up until summer 2020, has been pretty seamless using ACT and upgrading from previous versions to current versions. The last v22.0 upgrade I installed, gave me the impression that someone at ACT was more concerned about getting their bonus and 'rushing' out this new version, than making sure an 'error free' product was released. This combined with the elimination of service contracts, gives the impression they're going to "milk the cow" and end up closing up the business and leaving customers stranded.
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Familiar as I have been using ACT since 1991, starting with v2.0 and now have v22.1.
Desvantagens
ACT worked 'great' up to and including v21. Since the release of v22, I get ACT "NOT RESPONDING" messages 6-8x per day and need to completely reboot my laptop. Also with v22, I have randomly and periodically had (2x) my template for Contacts changed/rearranged. This combined with the elimination of service contracts, makes using ACT and potentially upgrading to the next version of ACT "unattractive".
- Setor: Publicidade e marketing
- Porte da empresa: 11 - 50 funcionários
- Usado Diariamente durante Mais de dois anos
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- Probabilidade de recomendação 8.0 /10
Act is great for marketing
Avaliado em 29/12/2022
Our marketing team is virtual and located all over the US. We use Act for all our marketing...
Our marketing team is virtual and located all over the US. We use Act for all our marketing accounts. Our administration uses Act for business development as well as our marketing team for each and every campaign.
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We have been using Act for 18 years. It's a nice product with as many bells and whistles thats needed for a CRM. Its easy to implement and set up databases. It has the necessary features for analytics and reporting for clients.We plan to upgrade to an Act cloud version soon.
Desvantagens
The only feature I would like to see added would be an internal voip so that you could hit the call button and Act would dial automatically.
Resposta do Act!
We love hearing from our customers, Tracy! Some of our favorite features have come from the suggestions of power users like you! We invite you to please submit your feature request by visiting this URL.
https://app.smartsheet.com/b/form/5833907456404e3d99cb5c440433f6a0
Thank you!

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Best featured and Best value CRM for Small business
Avaliado em 03/05/2016
Firstly, I'm an Act! Certified Consultant and I sell and provide services around Act! and have done...
Firstly, I'm an Act! Certified Consultant and I sell and provide services around Act! and have done so since 2001.
Although I'm not a client, I have continually had to make an assessment about whether Act! is the right product for our prospective and existing clients.
My personal experience is that there is no single software product that is suitable for every business. If you are a big enterprise, Act! isn't the product you are going to invest in. For small business though it should be at the top of your list to review.
Act! has a greater depth and depth of functionality for the price of any CRM software in the market for the small business users. If there was something that were better I'd be inclined to be offering it to our clients. Act! has been around for nearly 30 years and the many things that you are likely to want to be able to do, Act! just does. Many of the small, simple, day to day tasks will be made easier by your use of Act!. Act! is a product that you will hear many loyal and satisfied clients say that they Love and that they can't do without. Act! is easy to use and it's highly configurable. It excels in a MS Windows environment, so if you are running a server with some desktops and laptops it's an ideal solution. It will run faster than any cloud based solution.
Act! comes with both a Windows and Web based access. You could have some using it on their desktop in the office, and others using it via the web browser. The Web version doesn't completely match the windows version for functionality, but the gap is closing. With Act! you can deploy it on your own server so you own and control your data. You can still have the advantage of a web based login but know that your database is in an environment you control. Act! has a range of excellent third party add-ons that en-rich it's functionality and with a new API in the latest 18.1 version there will be many more integrations between Act! and other web based applications.
If I were to simplfy where I see Act! in the market it would be to say it sits in the middle of the basic cloud offerings like Pipedrive, Insightly, Highrise etc. and the full blown CRM's from Saleforce, SugarCRM and Microsoft. If you are an established business that is looking for a best in class CRM to work on your MS Windows platform and still provide good mobile and web browser based access then Act! is ideal.
- Setor: Seguros
- Porte da empresa: 2 - 10 funcionários
- Usado Diariamente durante Mais de dois anos
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- Probabilidade de recomendação 10.0 /10
"Get Your Act Together"
Avaliado em 29/01/2019
I am keeping my Insurance and Retirement Planning business running with it and I believe I first...
I am keeping my Insurance and Retirement Planning business running with it and I believe I first started using ACT in 1994. The basic functions that I use it for are easy to learn and use. I sure wish I would have had the chance to take courses on ACT, Excel, etc... while in college but when I graduated in 1979 there were no such things.
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What's not to love? It keeps my contacts names, numbers, addresses, emails, etc... sorted. I can mark/tag them for different groups, find them, note them, write them, sort them... I can schedule me calls, meetings, to-do's with alarms to remind me. I LOVE MY ACT!
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The only reason for the 4 stars is because this software will do so much and I being age 60 and not growing up with computers all thru school... I am probably not doing one tenth of what I could be doing with ACT and yet it is still a LIFESAVER! Without ACT, I would NEVER be able to keep my "ACT" together... lol.
It makes me feel a little incompetent knowing there is SO MUCH MORE it could do for me if I knew how to do it.
- Setor: Formação profissional e coaching
- Porte da empresa: 2 - 10 funcionários
- Usado Diariamente durante Mais de dois anos
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Think carefully before buying ACT!
Avaliado em 15/10/2021
Our overall experience with ACT! is not good, so after 17 + years I made the decision to switch to...
Our overall experience with ACT! is not good, so after 17 + years I made the decision to switch to another CRM when we upgraded our computers.
Our IT Consultant summarised it beautifully when he was moving programs and files from the existing hardware to new hardware and said "Please tell me you don't want me to move ACT! as well". He never liked it either
The issue with email marketing and emails was long standing and in the end we gave up, without being even close to a solution.
For a small business, it became too complex and non-user friendly, especially as other competitors with more features, better service and a more user-friendly 'current' CRM product entered the market.
Plus, to add insult to injury, Customer Service has deteriorated over the past few years.
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When we first bought ACT! around 17 years ago we loved it. We were all happy with what it could do to automate the office and with client/lead management.
Desvantagens
Email marketing and email functionality - or lack of - with Outlook.
Only being able to attach one document file to a history note has also caused much frustration.
- Setor: Seguros
- Porte da empresa: 2 - 10 funcionários
- Usado Diariamente durante Mais de dois anos
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Good for small business needs
Avaliado em 04/05/2020
Been using it for 15 years. Good overall,
Been using it for 15 years. Good overall,
Vantagens
Highly customizable fields. At each upgrade, all my changes are carried forward without me needing to do anything. Solid follow-up system.
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My only complaint is the size of the application on the screen. The settings that I use on the screen work for all my other programs. This displays just a bit smaller than I would like. Haven't found a way to correct.
- Setor: Fabricação elétrica/eletrônica
- Porte da empresa: 11 - 50 funcionários
- Usado Diariamente durante Mais de dois anos
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THe company has been using it for at least 10 years
Avaliado em 14/12/2017
THere are a lot better CRM's out there figure out what you are using it for and what you need and...
THere are a lot better CRM's out there figure out what you are using it for and what you need and start shopping I could suggest a few but to me they are a bit industry specific.
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seems very simple and we had a long standing relationship with ACT with the in house CRM. So we had a lot of our contacts already on board and it does keep track of contacts.
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When I came on board about 3 months ago I suggested going to the cloud the idea was well recieved and I contacted act. We intially had some issues uploading the information some of which I will admit was my own fault. when I did the software lagged extremely bad. I contacted the company spent almost 4 hours o the phone (mostly on hold) the first time and then didnt get a call back untill about 9:30 that night. Then the trial was running out with out the issue being resolved I asked them to extend it while we tried to fix the issue they told me I had to buy it and then they would be able to fix it....
- Setor: Hardware
- Porte da empresa: 51 - 200 funcionários
- Usado Diariamente durante 6 a 12 meses
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- Probabilidade de recomendação 9.0 /10
Act! CRM gives our company what it needs . Ease of use which boosts our team's productivity...
Avaliado em 13/12/2019
We are happy to upgrade to ACT CRM for their cloud based services, for Act's collection as well...
We are happy to upgrade to ACT CRM for their cloud based services, for Act's collection as well as consolidation of our sales data for marketing use and for new business acquisition . Act has also become
an off and online supplemental data base for our company.
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We loved Act's flexibility and ease of use as each of our team members were able to use Act with their mobile devices and phones. Our team members reported that Act's updating process is quick, painless,
and automated. In addition , their user interface was quite intuitive and made for generation of highly
configurable reports in a timely manner .
Desvantagens
We have found Act to be a solid and multi faceted CRM. However , we would love more tutorials on importing contacts for business use and referral. By importing we would value some kind of scan
utility feature for use with cell phones and tablets. That said , once a client enters contact information ,
Act will make a connection and provide information regarding parent companies or further supplemental data. This feature proves extremely useful.