Written by Ken Quigley

June 15 2021

With over one hundred Act! add-ons in our inventory, many might ask why we wanted to acquire QsalesData recently, an add-on that integrated QuickBooks and Act!. The reason is this we believe that accounting and CRM are meant to be intertwined together, and a product like Qsales provides a much fuller picture of contacts as customers. Understand...

Written by Ken Quigley

June 11 2021

We're very excited to announce that the Keystroke Account Manager (KAM) has just been enhanced to provide our customers complete accounting visibility. The process couldn't be simpler. Go to https://kam.kqc.ca or use our Android or IOS app, and click “Manage accounts” in the Keystroke Account Manager to see all their invoices, sales receipts...

Written by Ken Quigley

June 11 2021

Last week we released our first update to Qsales for Act!, namely v12.2, and customers have loved it. The new version includes faster transaction lists and product searches, a Global view of all transactions, an Overdue Alert on the toolbar, integrated Quoting, enhanced custom table functionality and mass linking features, and much...

Written by Ken Quigley

June 06 2021

CRM and project management are two of the biggest categories in business software. In fact, if you checked with Capterra, you’d find these the first and second most expensive categories to advertise in. This is why Keystroke is so excited to announce the next release of QuickTasks (scheduled for June 15th) because it’s the first on-premise product...

Written by Ken Quigley

June 04 2021

Keystroke is pleased to announce the release of Qsales for Act! v12.2, the first major release by Keystroke of this industry leading QuickBooks integration product. Version 12.2 represents an upgrade in features and performance, as well as many bug fixes, and is sure to delight new and current Qsales users. The list of changes with this new...

Written by Ken Quigley

May 18 2021

Over the last few years, very few changes have been made to the MailMerge and MailManager products. Both were subscription products, and both provided effective tools for emarketing within Act!. Late last year, when Microsoft updates broke mail merging through Outlook, we released a third product called MailMerge Lite which was a stripped-down...

Written by Ken Quigley

May 03 2021

Accounting and CRM have always been a natural coupling. CRM products generally manage pipeline data for pre-sales and projected sales, while accounting manages actual sales data, or what can be described as "post sales". It is for this reason that Keystroke is so excited to announce the acquisition of two of the Act! industries leading QuickBooks...

Written by Ken Quigley

May 03 2021

Spring is here, and many are turning their attention to spring cleaning. Why not treat your Act! database to the same? Whether your database is big or small, rich in detail or not, bloat inevitably creeps into a database, and this can affect the overall performance for all users. This is why we recommend a good spring cleaning of your database...

Written by Mike Muhney

May 02 2021

First, some background… ACT! was conceived over a brainstorming breakfast on July 4, 1986. At that breakfast, not yet able, nor necessary, to have a name for it yet it was codenamed YES! – an acronym that stood for Yes Everybody Sells!. Thus, it began as an acronym/name that identified its raison d’être. Its immediate “oomph” was meant to be...

Written by Ken Quigley

April 15 2021

Since we acquired the three Topline add-ons a few weeks back, there have been many concerned calls and emails from past Topline customers looking to get more licensing. As most who have been following these developments are aware, we've recompiled all three add-on products, Designer, Dash, and Alerts, and posted them on our site for sale. And...