Sage ACT! Premium 2012

Sage ACT! Pro is customer and contact management software that’s ideal for small businesses looking to grow their customer base. It helps you get to know your contacts, make the most of every sales opportunity and convert prospects into long-lasting, profitable relationships.

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Sage ACT! gets your sales, marketing and customer service running like clockwork - centralising all your customer and sales information and helping you convert sales opportunities into paying customers.

Get a clear view of your contacts

• Store contact information, notes, documents, sales opportunities & sales histories.
• Stay organised and have every detail about your prospects and customers at hand.
• Organise contacts into groups and companies for easy viewing and co-ordinated communications.
• Instantly search your entire database with quick search.
• Integrate with the latest version of Sage Instant Accounts & 50 Accounts to create invoices, sales and contacts.
• Access your contacts and calendar from your mobile phone or online with Sage ACT! Connect (additional charge applies)

Convert prospects into loyal customers

• Track, progress and rate sales opportunities from initial contact through to a completed sale.
• View and filter opportunities by sales rep, interest, notes, decision makers, competitors and probability of conversion.
• Generate quotes in Excel, Word, Sage Instant Accounts and Sage 50 Accounts and store them against your contacts in ACT!
• Import leads from a database of 68 million companies and 85 million contact with Sage Business Information Services (additional charge applies).

Communicate intelligently with your customers

• Talk to your prospects and customers in a way that suits you - email, letter, fax and more.
• Analyse sales trends and customer profiles to make the right contact at the right time.
• Choose from a selection of templates or customise your own to make the right impression.
• Save time and effort by selecting groups of customers to contact at once.
• Keep a detailed customer history so you don’t duplicate communications.
• Create, send and record integrated campaigns with Sage E-marketing (additional charge applies)
• View insightful graphs, dashboards and 40+ reports to give you a snapshot of how you’re performing.

Work more efficiently every day

• Quickly capture notes, reminders and phone numbers with the Scratchpad handy desktop notepad.
• Stay organised by creating a prioritised to-do list in Scratchpad, mark items as complete and import them into ACT! in just a few clicks.
• Automate everyday jobs and your most frequent processes with Smart Tasks.
• Set up Smart Tasks easily using pre-defined templates, such as important appointments and emails.

Fit ACT! into your business with ease

• Consolidate all your calendars and email accounts with ACT! so you won’t miss a trick.
• Write emails in Microsoft Outlook and Gmail and automatically record them in your ACT! contacts.
• Sync all or some your ACT! contacts with Outlook and Gmail.
• Sync your ACT! calendar with Outlook and Google calendars at scheduled intervals.
• Save information from LinkedIn and Facebook to get a complete picture of your contacts.

Because you're already using Sage ACT! you know about all the great benefits it offers your business, but we've been working hard to make Sage ACT! 2012 even better. It helps you get to know your contacts, make the most of every sales opportunity and covert prospects into long-lasting, profitable relationships.

What’s new

Keep up to date with the new Scratchpad

• Brand new virtual notepad - a great alternative to sticky notes!
• Capture notes, phone numbers, reminders, and to-do lists on your desktop.
• Record vital information whenever you want - you don't even need ACT! open.
• Create a prioritised 'to do' list and check off completed tasks as you go.
• Print off your notes and lists, or import them into ACT! in a few clicks.
• Store your notes in ACT! against history, activities or notes for specific contacts.

Save valuable time with new quick search

• Finding key information at the touch of a button - no more digging around your database.
• Search your entire ACT! database in an instant, just type what you're looking for and hit go.
• Search through all of your contacts, groups, companies, opportunities, notes, history and documents.
• Filter your results by date - all dates, the last 24 hours, last week or last month.
• Results are shown by relevance, and simply double-click to explore in more detail.
• Refine your search by clicking 'back' if you're unsure.

Integrate ACT! with your Google account

• Don't break stride as you work - integrate ACT! with Gmail, Google Contacts and Google Calendar.
• Send and receive emails through Gmail, and automatically record them against your ACT! contacts.
• Sync your ACT! and Gmail contacts - no more duplicates or inaccurate details.
• Sync your ACT! and Google calendars - manually or at automated intervals.
• Create and change appointments in either application, and set handy reminders.
• Choose which kind activities you'd like to sync and clear them when they're completed.

Manage your contacts on the move

• Work on the move Sage ACT! Connect (additional charge applies).
• Access your ACT! data remotely through your web browser, mobile phone, iPad or tablet.
• All your data is stored in 'the cloud' so you can access it from virtually anywhere.
• Add new contacts and make changes to your existing contacts in real time.
• Synchronise your data without even having ACT! open.
• Share your Sage ACT! contacts with your Google and Yahoo! Accounts.
• Compatible with iPad, BlackBerry, Windows Mobile, and Android.

System Requirements

• 2 GB available hard disk space (4 GB if product is downloaded)
• DVD drive
• SVGA (1024x768) or higher resolution monitor
• Windows Installer Service 4.5; .NET 3.5 Service Pack 1
• 1 GB system memory
• Processor speed for Windows® XP
• 1.0 GHz Pentium® IV processor (or equivalent)
• Processor speed for Windows Vista® or Windows 7
• 1.8 GHz Pentium IV processor (or equivalent)

Works With

• Microsoft® Office 2003, 2007, and 2010 (32-bit version only) (SP3 recommended for Office 2003 and SP2 recommended for Office 2007)
• Microsoft Outlook® Express 6.0 SP21
• Lotus Notes® 6.5, 7.0.2, and 8.0
• Eudora® 5.2
• Internet Mail SMTP/POP3
• Microsoft Internet Explorer® 7.02, 8.0 and 9.0
• Adobe® Reader® 6.0, 7.0 and 10.x
• VMware® Workstation 5.x and 6.x; VMware Fusion, VMware Server 1.x, 2.x
• Citrix® software using Citrix XenApp® 5.0 and 6.0
• Parallels® Desktop for Macintosh® 4.0; and Parallels Workstation 2.2 for Windows®
• Oracle VM VirtualBox® 4.x

Supported Operating Systems

• Windows® XP SP33 (32-bit only)
• Windows Server® 2003 SP2 (32-bit and 64-bit)
• Windows Vista®4 SP2 (32-bit and 64-bit)
• Windows Server 20085 SP2 (32-bit and 64-bit)
• Windows 7 SP1 (32-bit and 64-bit)