Written by Ken Quigley

December 21 2018

*** EMAIL SENT TO OUR CUSTOMERS BY OUR PRESIDENT *** There are less than a couple of weeks before the end of 2018, and I wanted to reflect on what has been another year of change & growth for us at Keystroke.ca. While our team continued to grow, with over 33 staff spread across three countries, it has also stabilized as team leaders...

Written by Ken Quigley

December 20 2018

In a move that we've been pushing for since subscription was first introduced in May 2015, Swiftpage has announced a major change to it's subscription policy with reference to perpetual Act! licenses. For context, Act! is one of the last CRM products to offer perpetual licensing sales, and this has traditionally confused customers as to what their...

Written by Ken Quigley

December 18 2018

Membership should have some privileges. This was our thinking when we developed our "account" based pricing for some of our select addons. Frequently when we're speaking with customers about buying Act! Premium Plus, it's normally with a focus towards selling "solutions". For financial planners this involves Act4wealth, for mortgage brokers it's...

Written by Ken Quigley

December 16 2018

With a wave of legacy Act! users rushing to upgrade their software before the embedded 3rd party licensing service officially stops working on December 31st, many are asking whether they need to go to an Act! subscription product, or will Act! Pro suffice for their needs.   This is not a new conundrum, as we've published a few article son this...

Written by Ken Quigley

December 13 2018

Swiftpage, which is backed by SFW Capital Partners, has acquired Kuvana Inc, a provider of email marketing and marketing automation solutions for small and medium-sized businesses. No financial terms were disclosed. PRESS RELEASE DENVER, Dec. 12, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — Swiftpage, the provider of Act! CRM software, a leading cloud-enabled platform...

Written by Ken Quigley

December 12 2018

MailManager4Act! is a one-stop mail management solution that includes four programs in one, that are all integrated together to provide complete "client-side" email management. And each of these applications have been improved in the new MailManager4Act!, the key ingredients of which are the Opt-in Manager, MergeMail4Act!, Knowtifier Lite, and...

Written by Ken Quigley

December 12 2018

Keystroke is very pleased to announce the release of Project KickStart 6.1, a huge update only seven weeks after v6.0. In short, you asked for new features, and we listened. We've worked hard since the October 23rd release of v6.0 to incorporate the changes requested, and we think you'll be pleased with the outcome. The new features include the...

Written by Ken Quigley

December 03 2018

It's been 18-months since Keystroke took over the DesignR1 products and in that time we've invested heavily in updating and improving them - and continue to do so. We've come to the point, however, where we have to look forward, and focus our efforts on the customers we've sold the licensing to. To that end, Keystroke will be implementing a...

Written by Ken Quigley

November 09 2018

For all customers that purchased Mapper4Act! from Keystroke from July 2017 to present day, we have some good news. While we acquired this product when DesignR1 closed, we did not initially develop it ourselves, but do take responsibility for any customers that purchased this asset from us. Accordingly, we’ve been working the last few weeks to...

Written by Ken Quigley

November 06 2018

Attention Act! Customer: We have recently been informed that an embedded third-party software component of Act! that facilitates licensing services is being discontinued by the manufacturer at the end of this year. If you are using a supported version of Act! (namely Act! v19, v20 and v21), a new licensing component will be introduced for your...