Sage ACT! is a contact and customer management system which centralises contact information, organises a diary, tracks sales leads and can be used to organise marketing campaigns for small and medium-sized businesses. Manage customer relationship, target sales, track marketing activity performance, organise a diary and tasks and obtain a complete view of customers.

New Features in ACT! 2012 Include:

New ScratchPad:

• Brand new virtual notepad offers a great alternative to sticky notes
• Capture notes, phone numbers, reminders and prioritsed to-do lists on the desktop.
• Record vital information without needing to open ACT!
• Print off notes and lists, or import them into ACT! and store notes in ACT! against history, activities or notes for specific contacts.
• Searches the entire ACT! database (including contacts, companies, notes, history and others). The user can just type what they are looking for and click 'go'.

New Quick Search:

• Results can be filtered by date - all dates, the last 24 hours, last week or last month.
• Results are shown by relevance and can be double-clicked to explore in more detail.
• Searches can be refined by clicking 'back' if the user is unsure.

Integration with Google Account:

• ACT! can be integrated and synced with Gmail, Google Contacts and Google Calendar.
• Users can send and receive emails through Gmail, and have them automatically recorded against ACT! contacts.
• Users can create and change appointments in either application, and set reminders.
• Users can choose which kind activities to sync and clear them when they're completed.

Managing Contacts on the Move:

• Work on the move with ACT! Connect (additional charge applies).
• Access ACT! data remotely through a web browser, mobile phone, iPad or tablet.
• All your data is stored in 'the cloud' so it can be accessed from virtually anywhere.
• Add new contacts and make changes to existing contacts in real time.
• Synchronise data without needing to have ACT! open.
• Share ACT! contacts with your Google and Yahoo! Accounts.
• Compatible with iPad, BlackBerry, Windows Mobile, and Android.

ACT! 2011 Features Include:

• Imports customer data directly from Microsoft Excel and is integrated with Microsoft Outlook.
• Smart Tasks for creating, automating and customising processes such as scheduling calls, sending e-mails and launching e-mail campaigns.
• ACT! Mobile Live online mobile service that enables access to contacts and calendar, notes and history information
• Enables the setting of pre-defined needs to identify target prospect lists and details of existing customers that can be imported into ACT!
• Sage e-Marketing for ACT! enables building, sending and keeping track of marketing campaigns
• Enhanced file security.