Act! Reviews & Product Details

My firm does Employment Candidate Generation. Act gives me the ability to store my contacts and find them very quickly if I receive a call. It is great to be able to look up previous contacts and sort them in seconds. I can also store resumes and documents with the contact.

I have clients in industries where I work with them many times. With the look-up feature, it is very easy to find and create a list of the names that I have previously generated Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The transfer of contacts from Excel into Act has some problems. I get databases rejected all of the time. In addition, when I import contacts, I should be able to import either by first and last name or by full name. You can't import First Name - Last Name in separate field contacts.

When I paste an email address into an Act contact, Act puts the email in the last field that I used, instead of the email field. The only way to fix the problem is to restart ACT. This happens probably 50% of the time that I use ACT. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

During "business hours" it is very important for me to arrange my day in order to get the most contacts out of it. Every body is Sooooo busy these days and even when you nail people down to a meeting on the phone they still often don't answer the phone. Nothing gets accomplished unless you have a live person on the phone and act helps me to arrange my day, my week to maximize these contacts and turn them into business. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

the cloud version is so slow to interface with what I am doning on my desktop. I make more than a hundred calls a day. When I make changes in my data base and send those changes to my cloud to keep, the buffering sometimes takes a minute -or two. Multiply a minute or two aby 100 callls and you are talking about a wasted hour and a half of waiting. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It seamlessly and easily tracks all my activity with clients, referral sources, and lenders. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The one feature wish it had the ability to tie a company to a group instead of just a contact. For example, I work with a wide variety of alternative lenders that provide different kinds of commercial financing. I differentiate the lenders by placing contacts that work for that lender in appropriate groups for the landing programs they provide, ie "Commercial Real estate Lenders that Lend to Bars & Restaurants". If the contact for that lender leaves that lending company, I would still like to maintain the company name in that group as a lender that provides that specific type of financing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The ability to have every client at your fingertips, along with a detailed history of every meeting and/or activity, is monumental to the proper professional management of prospects and clients. ACT! has always been the main focal point of my business relationship process to ensure that I can be up-to-date and relevant and stay ahead of my marketing, sales and support communications with my prospects and clients. The program is extremely easy to use and has always continued to improve and fine-tune the performance and benefits. I also use Handheld Contact to keep the synchronization between my mobile device and my computer up to date. I have used ACT! from the very first day of its' launch back in April of 1987 and will continue to be a loyal user. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Very few items come up that cause me to be concerned or frustrated with ACT!. After using this incredible program for over 35 years, When I see that there are some areas that might need some updating or possibly new capabilities that need to be added, it seems that they are included in one of the future updates that come along. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I really like our shortcut tools on the desktop version. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The web-based version does not have any shortcut tools it's a shame the act has been around a long time, and you're ahead of the curve as far as shortcut tools. Those tools would be a game changer. Mid-management and upper management company I'm not sure if you're not looking forward or considering the fact a lot of people have used the desktop version in the past and are switching to other products, think a little out-of-the-box and how you can recapture some of those clients and be different than everyone else. I'm happy to give you half an hour of my time to consult with you to drive the company forward if you like. I'm guessing it's more profitable to move everyone off the desktop version to the web-based product, but you still need to retain some of the key elements you have printing printing labels also to with the shortcut tools, Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I have tried other database software and I love the ease of the product and the reports I can generate Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I am a one person office so sometimes I don't get things updated as I should and therefore, I don't use all of it's features, unfortunately. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The ability to send personalized mass emails and letters. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I had a 8 GBs of memory which is what the web site said was the minimum but you really need at least ``16 GB. I got a new 32 GB computer and it runs super smooth. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The way it can coordinate To Do's, Calls, Meetings, Opportunities, Detailed client information Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

To do, Call and meeting notes need a date and time stamp. I've communicated this for years to ACT! but to no avail. One of the add-on companies include it in their array and it was one of the main reasons I bought their product. You finally cleaned up the iPhone app, but it was a long time coming. There's still no Mac version, which forces me to maintain a separate PC computer basically just for ACT!. Intergration with Outlook doesn't function well even with aftermarket add-ons. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I have used many CRM's and ACT is the easiest. I can get a good look at my company contacts, notes and activities with minimal effort. I love the pop-up reminders for tasks I have set. Also very easy to implement. Customer Support and Onboarding is great. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Although it has some reporting capabilities, I wish it had more. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I am liking using the cloud version. The Marketing Automation works much better in the cloud then the desk top. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It is hard to use. I have spent hours with tech support on the phone trying to get our ACT! updated to the newest version. I am still not done. I'm not sure why you have to have a remote data base so that the desk top version speaks to the cloud. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.