Why I buy this one ?
- Easy-to-use contact and customer-manager software
- Access, organize, and manage contact details
- Stay on top of schedule 24/7; share customer info securely
- Link to Palm OS and Pocket PC handhelds
- Forecast, track, and report on sales opportunities

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What our customer's say!

"Dreadful - serious waste of money and time", If you are a user of previous versions of Act!, I reccommend you avoid this software. It will cost you far more than you pay. The new owners of Act! are difficult and unhelpful and the many many problems of the software are almost impossible to resolve. I've gone back to a previous version and written off the cost of buying Act 2005 as experience not to deal with this company again.

"Extremely difficult to learn. I despise ACT!", Do yourself a favor and stay away from ACT! software. They should be embarrassed to sell this piece of trash.

"Act 2005 is a major disappointment!", We had the old ACT 2000 and it worked great but we needed to upgrade it so our envelopes would print out properly. We purchased a 5 user license and the ACT 2005 has been a major disappointment. It is slow in booting up even on newer computers and if you haven't worked in it for 10 minutes or so, it can take 30 seconds of waiting before you can fill in a data field. ACT 2005 was released with a lot of bugs, there were some major patches and then guess what? Sage decides in their wisdom not to support the software anymore, they will just release ACT 2006 and then ACT 2007. These people don't care about their products or their customers, its all about the money to them. Avoid this garbage at all costs!!!

"ACT! has taken a "dump" since Sage took over", Used to be a great product. I've been using ACT! for over 10 years. Since Sage took over, it's slower, wont do faxes, wont do macros, is tempermental, fields sometimes don't accept input. But worst of all is the incredible "nickel and diming". $70 for their paperback guidebook? $300 for tech support -- and then you wait to speak to someone in India? Do yourself a favor and see if you can live with Microsoft's less sophisticated but less larcenous database.

"Someone needs to Sue these people", I started with Act4 and decided to upgrade to the newer and better Sage Act 2006. It immedialtely had problems. I bought the service agreement for Act2006(its expensive) This agreement ends in Sept 2007. I was told that with this special #### I would get special Treatment..(boy did I go for the ole okey doke). I just received from Sage the annoucement for the new Act2007. That states Sage will not be offering any support for Act2006 as of 11/30/2006. So the so called service agreement(that you never get through to anyone that you can understand.)That was purchased for Act2006 will not be supported after Nov 2006.
Beware be very aware.....

Read this reviews before You buy...

"ACT! 2005...Gone BAD!", Act has been a constant software companion for me since the 2.0 version with miles and miles of my most sacred business data. I always upgraded the product as soon as the new versions came out and for the most part was always happy with the new releases.

But when ACT! 2005 came out I heard some bad stories from inital reviews so I waited....then an update for 2005 came out to correct many of the issues the original release exhibited.

So I finally decided to upgrade, convert my old data over and expected to have a pleasant experiece with the latest features and supposedly speed that SQL use was to provide. WRONG!

After working with my data for awhile I noticed the database was SLOW, I was missing fields, notes, history, etc. but not for all of my contacts, it seems interspersed throughout my database. In using the layout designer tool it has hosed up my layouts so bad that some fields do not even show up in the Layout Designer but in the Contact View are way over to one side. This has cost me many hours of work trying to get my ACT! 2005 to function properly out of the box.

Do not buy this product, it is a waste of your money and will waste your time, especially if you used previous versions of ACT! and will frustrate the heck out of Advanced ACT! user.

I am going back to ACT! 6.0, atleast there is support for it for a few more years and give me time to look at other products in the market place.

"What is going on?", I first began to work with ACT! in 1987 when the original founders of Contact Software showed up in my office and presented their ACT! software to me for testing. At the time I was a partner with a Big 8 accounting firm working with startup technology companies. I thought enough of the software and the company to leave the world of public accounting and join the company as their president and CEO for a short time to get them focused and funded.

Since that time, I have used ACT! as an executive search consultant, CEO of several companies, and a consultant to senior executive teams. My active data base contains over 8,000 contacts and the record of my contacts with each.

Over the years I have seen this software grow with pride knowing that I had a hand in helping it begin. The features that have been added have added considerable value to my services and the work I do.

However, I find that since ACT! 2005 my world of contact management has traveled a bumpy road. The performance issues of the past seem to have subsided some with an update release of 2005 I installed some time ago. The comments I read here about 2006 give me great concern about my future use of ACT!

It seems that SAGE needs to assemble a team to take apart the current version of ACT! and do some serious re-engineering to bring the software back to what is used to be . . . a powerful contact manager with a user interface that became second nature for those who really used it to track and manage their interface with others . . . . with a data base engine that delivered performance that worked at the speed of the mind and the fastest fingers around. This was the secret of the original version of ACT! . . . I believe any new user of this software needs to proceed with eyes wide open or face the consequences experienced by others who have posted their frustration here.

Tom Samson
tfsamson@teamworkdynamics.com

"Abundant functionality, but painstakingly slow...", Having used Outlook formy primary contact management software the past 2 or 3 years, I figured that to further develope my business, I'd step it up to something a little more powerful - and this is it!

It took some getting used to and definitely a lot of after hours configuration to get the Contact Fields/Opportunity Lists/Groups set up & organized the way I liked them - but now that it's all done, I look forward to putting it to great use.

For the most part I am satisfied, but I do have a few quams - too many to list in all, but here are a few:

I have 1gb RAM and a 3.00ghz pentium and the program IS slow to load (compared to most). Sometimes the program drops contacts altogehter, (but they're there again when I reopen the database or create new contact - kind bizarre). The date fields seem to function "okay," though they do not like blank values - and default to 11/30/96 of somewhere thereabouts.

I liek the program in all, but anticipate an updated release. HTHs. JOE

"Hey! - be nice to Beta testers - I was one of them - BUT......", I am a stock broker (financial planner) employed at a large national firm. CRM software is vitally important to my business.
I have been an avid user since FirstAct! for Dos.

I have a confession to make - Yep, I was a Beta tester for ACT!2005.

I ran a "test database" in standalone along side of version 6 where I duplicated my notes for about 6 weeks. I wanted to be careful. Each week I faithfully provided my input - all problems on many of the feedback items I see at this site. As I proceeded to actually converting to ACT!2005 I had no idea of what it would actually cost me in production time. ($,000's) I optomistically believed quirks would be corrected quickly by the developers, so I stepped up and made the converion for my 2 person team.

To me, this seemed to be the most hyped and quickly released version of all. Now I spell it "CASH GRAB."

If you have more than one user stay away from this product - to even load it and set it up, you should be a highly qualified and incredibly patient network administrator. If your workstations are "secure or locked down" as our's are - set-up is next to impossible.

You can't readily save your database easily to multiple locations. Backups are intollerably slow - if completed at all.

Options to "customize" preferences are fewer in this version than any version in memory.

Groups are impossible to work with.

Editing histories is bad at best - too many screens required compared to the old version.

Did I mention SLOW.

I like to print my task list each day. I can see it on-screen, but don't think God could print it.

I forgot to mention SLOW.

Unfortunately I have suggested other teams in our office upgrade to the new version - their databases were created in version 6 - and they have other problems we don't. I wish I had never stuck my neck out.

Now, I am looking for alternatives. Does anyone know of any CRM that can convert ACT!2005 notes.

Even after nearly 12 years, if I can find one, I'll be history.....










"This product is crap!", If you are thinking about buying this software, don't! Save your money and get a rolodex, it would be easier to use and operate much faster. I purchased this product less than 90 days ago for about $200. As of today, it won't even start up. When I went to the ACT website I was dissapointed to find out that you can't get technical support unless you pay them IN ADVANCE for the help. From the day I installed this program my computer became sluggish, requiring many restatrs throughout the day. Send a message to the makers of ACT...don't buy this product!