Sage ACT!

• 45 days' free SageCover support for new customers to help you get up and running with your new software
• Welcome page with tips, hints, news and videos
• Customise your software with global and individual user preferences
• Intuitive, easy-to-use interface
• Built-in templates for emails, tasks and processes to help you get started

• Communicate with your contacts using e-mail and mail
• Send individual or mass communications with mail merge
• Know when to send the right information, to the right customer at the right time, by analysing historical sales trends and profiles
• Use pre-prepared templates or customise your own
• Easily view the communication history of every contact
• Send Outlook emails from Sage ACT!, and a copy will be saved in your Outlook sent items too
• Use Sage ACT! email merge to send your newsletters, promotions and other communications to your database

• Store all your contact information in one place
• View your contacts’ communication history
• Create customised look-ups to filter your data the way you want to
• Create contact fields with a variety of field types including free text, drop-down lists, tick boxes and images
• Sync with your Sage 50 Accounts and Instant Accounts records to avoid duplicating efforts
• Get detailed insight into your customers with reports at the click of a button
• Find the exact relationship information you need instantly using the search capabilities
• Improve consistency and communication internally - all employees can access the same information, in the same place at the same time

• Suitable for 1-50+ users
• Scalable to suit businesses with many users and large databases
• Sage ACT! Premium for Web included, allowing you to remotely access your data via your server
• Share dashboards with other users in your business
• Additional security allows you to assign user access rights to specific fields
• Remotely sync your data without the need to have Sage ACT! open on your PC

Choose from a selection of complementary add-ons to get more from Sage ACT! (additional charge applies)

• Sage ACT! Connect: access your database on the move through your mobile phone. Nearly about all mobile devices are supported, including Blackberry, Android, iPad and Windows Mobile.
• Sage E-marketing for ACT!: design and send well-targeted email communications to your contacts and measure their performance.
• Sage Business Information Services for ACT!: add well-targeted, quality leads to your database from  a database of over 68 million companies.

Find out more about Sage Connected Services for ACT!

• Integrate Sage ACT! with the web:
  • Assign websites to contact records
  • Add Linkedln and Facebook contacts
  • Use Google Maps to help find your contacts
  • Built in Google & Yahoo links run automated searches using contact fields
• Link with iCalendar and vCard
• Integrates with popular email solutions including Microsoft Outlook, Lotus Notes, Gmail
• Integrates with Microsoft Office 2003, 2007, and 2010 32 bit edition
• Integrates with the latest versions of Sage Instant Accounts and Sage 50 Accounts so you can sync your contacts, view transactions and generate quotes and invoices

• Handy dashboard gives you a quick overview of any outstanding tasks
• Storing all your relationship information in one centralised location saves time and ensures information is never lost
• Manage daily responsibilities by scheduling and tracking activities like phone calls and meetings
• Manage your time effectively with the built-in calendar and sync it with Outlook to stay up-to-date
• Customise your dashboards to get a quick and easy snapshot of the information you need
• Use the powerful new search tool to quickly search your whole database
• Use Smart Tasks to automate everyday processes

• Handy dashboard provides an instant overview of your sales activity
• Create and monitor your leads from the first point of contact
• Track sales opportunities though each stage of your sales cycle
• Assign estimated close dates and probability of close to opportunities for more accurate forecasting
• Gain valuable insight into sales trends and performance, and forecast with a selection of pre-defined and customisable reports
• View all your sales opportunities at once or filter results to suit your needs
• Generate instant quotes from your opportunities, without the need to re-type information
• Link your sales processes in with Sage 50 Accounts, from order to payment

General Technical Requirements

• 10Gb free disk
• 2Ghz processor or higher
• 1Gbps Network speed recommended.

Memory (RAM)

• 1Gb RAM – Windows XP
• 2Gb RAM – Windows Vista, 7, Server 2003, Server 2008, Small Business Server 2011
• 4Gb RAM – For all PCs running a 64-bit operating system

Operating Systems

Please ensure you have the latest Microsoft Updates and Service Packs installed.

• Windows XP 32-bit
• Windows Vista
• Windows 7
• Windows Server 2003
• Windows Server 2008
• Windows Small Business Server 2011

Note: Sage ACT! Premium for Web is not supported on Small Business Server 2008 or 2011.