Written by Ken Quigley

November 16 2022

Qsales Classic will soon support QuickBooks Online (QBO). With more and more customers moving their accounting to the cloud, customers have been asking us when they can expect Qsales to support integration with QuickBooks Online. The answer is Tuesday, November 29th. That’s right, at the end of this month we’ll be releasing Qsales Classic v14...

Written by Ken Quigley

November 14 2022

Creating secure online forms that blend seamlessly into your website is great, especially when the data gets populated your CRM. However, we're about to add two new key features to Link2forms that will be game-changers in this space,  will become part of the Linktivity Suite of products that works exclusively with Act!. On November...

Written by Ken Quigley

November 11 2022

Act! users that have older 32-bit versions of Act! installed prior to them upgrading to the new 64-bit version of Act! v24 may find some issues with doing so. The first is that the old and new versions of Act! get installed into different Program Files directory. All versions of Act! v23 or older get installed into "Program Files (x86)\Act", with...

Written by Ken Quigley

November 08 2022

If you're a regular user of Act! and QuickBooks, and use Qsales to integrate them, the benefits of doing so are an everyday reality. When you see contacts as customers, and can intertwine CRM and accounting data, you get the perks of an ERP system without the enterprise price tag. For those people not using Qsales, the case for adopting it might...

Written by Ken Quigley

November 04 2022

Act! users are loyal. At least once a week (or more) a customer will tell me they've used Act! since it was in DOS, or from some time in the late 80's, early 90's. Whatever your story is, we want to hear why you love Act!. What is your Act! Success Story? I know ours was probably developing custom tables to support our many subscription clients...

Written by Ken Quigley

November 03 2022

In the past, Act! Pro users who wanted to upgrade to Premium, had to uninstall Pro, restart their computer, and then install Premium. If those same people wanted to go in the opposite direction, namely Premium to Pro, they had to repeat the same steps, but remember to downgrade their data file in advance of this change. Either way, it was...

Written by Ken Quigley

November 01 2022

Sometimes the headline says it all. "Take your Act! on the road with Handheld Contact & save 25% this month". That's right, we're inviting all new and returning users to give any of our Handheld Contact products a try this month, and we'll give them a 25% discount off their first subscription if they buy this month. Handheld Contact has been...

Written by Ken Quigley

November 01 2022

When Link2calendar was released a couple of years ago, it did so with one simple premise - "turn your time into money". This mantra was appealing, but ultimately misleading because you were required to give away your time for free when people booked appointments with you using our service. The presumption was that it facilitated more efficient...

Written by Ken Quigley

October 28 2022

Most websites have forms. Some are for quote or service requests and product inquiries, while others are just standard Contact Us page. Whatever the case, the information entered into these forms should not end in an email. Emails get missed, and even when they hit their mark, they still need someone to type all the information into the CRM...

Written by Ken Quigley

October 28 2022

At the end of 2020 Keystroke launched a fundraising initiative through CanadaHelps.org to help feed this country's hungry. As you might guess, the pandemic had left many families in need, and this initiative raised thousands of dollars for these worthy causes. Like all good intentions, enthusiasm waned over time, and our focus naturally returned...