The summer months are often for fun and vacations, without a lot of new business promotions going on, but don't tell that to our developers. This summer the developers at Keystroke spent this "downtime" updating and releasing many new programs, and during September we're celebrating these releases with some special discounts. Instead of one "Product of the Month", we're having five, and we'll be hosting several training webinars, as well.

Here's a quick preview of what we've been working on:

1. dataBoss: The new Databoss is the one tool you need for professionally exporting, importing, and migrating data to and from Act! CRM.
   Program Updates:
   1. Performance improvements to dramatically speed up importing & exporting
   2. Better handling of Opportunity products
   3. Improved handling of images in History and Notes
      
      
2. Exporter 2.0: If you need to export all your data from Act! to CSV files for importing into another CRM program, you need Exporter4Act!
   Program Updates:
   1. Completely rewritten in C# for better performance, accuracy, and troubleshooting.
   2. Bug fixes
   3. Made Act! v24 compatible
   4. New UI
   5. New SQL functions for faster exports
      
      
3. BatchUpdater 2.0: An advanced tool that allows you to perform Excel-style modifications to your data directly inside of Act!. As well as make updates to your database that the Act! software does not currently feature
   Program Updates:
   1. Completely rewritten in C# for better performance, accuracy, and troubleshooting.
   2. Bug fixes
   3. Made Act! v24 compatible
   4. New UI
      
      
4. ListView 2.0: This addon allows you to switch between several different sets of fields on the List views in Act!.
   Program Updates:
   1. Completely rewritten in C# for better performance, accuracy, and troubleshooting.
   2. Made Act! v24 compatible
      
      
5. Automator 3.0: The new Automator 3.0 has been completely rewritten, and performs calculations, mail merges, creates notes or histories, and a whole lot more! Think of it as Macros for your Act! database. Automator is designed to make repetitive tasks simple, quick, and error-free.
   Program Updates:
   1. Completely rewritten in C# for better performance, accuracy, and troubleshooting.
   2. Bug fixes
   3. Made Act! v24 compatible
   4. New UI
   5. Better error control to prevent user mistakes when setting up a button
      
      
6. Mapper 2.0
   Program Updates:
   1. Completely rewritten in C#
   2. updated the UI, gave it a fresh look and updated all of the controls
   3. Added a button to get to the MapQuest screen (previously it was on install only)
   4. Range mapping now includes kilometers, not just miles
   5. Created new email module to address bugs in previous versions
      
      
7. Qsales Classic v13: the Classic version of Qsales is being completely rewritten to include many of the features of the API version, and bring them more into feature parity. This release is expected lat September 2022.
   Program Updates:
   1. Editing and creating transactions inside of Act!
   2. Editing and creating customers & vendors inside of Act!
   3. Improved Transaction Lookup
   4. Enhanced transaction & item tables

And that's the list of improved programs. Here's a few new programs we've released in the past couple of months:

1. DB Shrinker:  Database bloat is not simply inconvenient, but it can also cost your business money in extra hosting fees, needing to upgrade to SQL Server from Express, and even time when cutting new RDB's. DB Shrinker was designed to help with this problem by arming customers with four separate utilities to "trim the fat" from their database. Expected release date mid-September.
   
   
2. ListMax:  Manage the list view in Act!'s contacts, companies, groups, and Opportunities like you can with custom tables. Add column filtering, column math, quick searches, averages, grouping, summaries, and other features to your basic list views, and save them for fast & easy retrieval
   
   
3. Concalculator: onCalculator is an Act! add-on that allows you to create calculations inside of Act! fields. Calculations can be triggered automatically when you change the value of the field, keeping your fields up to date all the time.