Features Include:

• Centralise Critical Customer Information
  Sage 50 ACT! 2008 is a single, central repository for critical contact and customer information captured across your business. Sage 50 ACT! works with up to 10 users in a network environment, and enables you to access detailed contact and customer information, manage individual and team calendars and activities, capture all customer communications, track opportunities through the sales process, and report on overall effectiveness. And, because Sage 50 ACT! allows you to link to Palm OS® and Pocket PC, you can download the data you need for instant access when you're on the go.
• Stay on Top of Your Deliverables
  Sage 50 ACT! helps you stay on top of all your daily responsibilities, whether it’s a task you must complete, a call with a customer, a meeting with a co-worker, or an e-mail to a prospect. And, everything you do in Sage 50 ACT! is related to a contact. So, once that item is completed, it’s tracked on the contact for a complete history of your interactions. Multiple calendar views including Daily, Weekly, Monthly, and customizable Work Week views are also provided in Sage 50 ACT!, and calendar pop-ups provide quick at-a-glance views into the day’s appointments. Calls, meetings, and to-do items can be filtered by priority, date range or user, with totals being displayed for each type of activity. Even create your own custom activity types so you can better track activities key to your business. And, Activity Alarms will help you stay on top of all your time-sensitive deliverables, while incomplete activities roll over to the next day to help you ensure that nothing slips through the cracks.
• Easily Integrate with the Tools You Use Everyday
  Sage 50 ACT! delivers one of the most robust integrations with Microsoft Office available today. With Sage 50 ACT!, you can perform key calendar and e-mail tasks in either Sage 50 ACT! or Microsoft Outlook® and ensure the data is still captured on your Sage 50 ACT! Contact Record. In addition, integration with Microsoft Excel® allows for one-click export of Contact, Group, Company, or Opportunity Lists to an Excel spreadsheet for sharing with non-ACT! users or for further analysis. And, integration with Microsoft Word allows you to perform mail merges for communications with prospects and customers and record a history on each individual contact record.
• Forecast and Track Sales Opportunities
  Sage 50 ACT! enables sales professionals to track sales opportunities from initial inquiry through close utilizing the standard sales process or a process customized to suit your business. Sales opportunities can be viewed all at once or filter by Users, Estimated Close, Date, Status, Sales Stage, Amount, or Probability of Close. And, when working an opportunity, you can simply click follow-up and a new activity will be created automatically with the opportunity details.
• Tailor Sage 50 ACT! to Capture Data Unique to Your Business
  Sage 50 ACT! can be adapted to meet your unique requirements so you can make more insightful business decisions. End-user friendly and adaptable, users can easily add, delete and edit fields and tabs within Sage 50 ACT! Layout Designer to meet specific needs. For example, field types can be designated as Date, Currency, Yes/No, Expansive Memo, and Picture fields to ensure you are capturing and can report on the right type of data. Priority, Activity, and History types are customizable so you can define “Billable Hours” as an activity type instead of just using “Meeting,” “Call,” or “To-Do.”
• Get Up and Running Quickly
  Sage 50 ACT! is easy to install. With a Start Here Guide, an easy step-by-step Installation Wizard, a Getting Started Wizard to help configure common preferences and settings, and Product Feature Tours, you can get up and running quickly. Using a personal information manager or PDA software to manage contacts? No problem. Data can be imported from popular formats including .csv, Outlook, and Palm Desktop, eliminating the work involved in re-entering data.

System Requirements:

• An IBM® compatible computer with a 2Ghz (or equivalent processor)
  
• 1GB RAM
  
• 1GB of free disk space
  
• 32 Bit versions of Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, SBS 2003, Windows Vista
  
• Handheld integration to Palm and Pocket PC
  
• Network Users only: 1Gbps network cards and switches with Microsoft Windows networking
  

Concurrent User Limits: Windows XP Home 5 users, Windows XP Professional 10 users, Windows Vista 10 users
Please ensure that the latest Windows updates are installed
Performance will be improved with higher specification computers and networks

Additional software:

• Works with Microsoft Office 2002 / XP and all later editions
  
• Lotus Notes® 6.5 (Windows Vista using Lotus Notes 7.02)
  
• Eudora® 5.2
  
• Internet/Web Mail SMTP/POP3
  
• Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 and later versions
  
• Adobe® Reader® 6.0 and later versions
  
• VMware Workstation 5.0/5.5 and VMware Server 1.0.1
  

• Palm OS 3.5-5.4
  
• Minimum 33 MHz or higher processor
  
• Minimum 8 MB or higher memory
  
• Minimum 500K free memory plus 1K for each contact
  
• HotSync® Manager 3.5 and 4.1.0

• Pocket PC 2000/2002/Phone Edition (Windows CE 3.0); Windows Mobile 2003 (Windows CE 4.0 and 4.20.0); Windows Mobile 2005/5.0
  
• Minimum 133 MHz or higher processor
  
• Minimum 16 MB or higher memory
  
• Minimum 500K free memory plus 1K for each contact
  
• Microsoft ActiveSync® versions 3.5 – 4.5 (XP operating systems only)
  
• Windows Mobile Device Center (Vista operating systems only)

Educational Pricing:

Please call our sales team for upgrades options.

*Sage Cover Mandatory

• Sage 50 Accounts 2008
• Sage Payroll 2008
• ACT! 2008
• ACT! 2008 Premium