More than 4 million business professionals and 12,000 companies around the world use the best-selling contact manager software to stay on top of their customer relationships.

That’s because ACT! by Sage ® links every detail by your most important asset: your customer relationship. So everything about your customer — back to your very first meeting — is right in front of you when you need it.

ACT! by Sage also works with Microsoft Outlook, Palm OS handhelds, paper-based organizers and popular accounting programs including Sage MAS 90® & Sage MAS 200® to give you a complete picture of every customer.



Below are some of the products highlights for ACT! by Sage 2005 (? New  ? Improved Feature)

Instantly access customer information

?	Store complete contact information including e-mail, notes, history & attachments.
?	Import data from Microsoft Outlook, Palm™ Desktop and other sources.
?	Choose from 60 standard contact fields—or create your own.
?	Customize your database to access and manage information the way you want.
?	Add new field types—including Yes/No, picture and memo fields.
?	Find anyone or any detail instantly with Lookups or Keyword Searches.
?	Access information on the go with Palm OS or Pocket PC handheld devices.

Manage and grow business relationships

?	Create Company records to see the entire business relationship.
?	Organize data into Groups and 15 levels of Subgroups for individual treatment.
?	Add virtually unlimited date- and time-stamped Notes and Histories to easily recall important details.
?	Use rich text formatting to change colors, fonts and more.
?	Attach presentations, proposals and more to Activities, Notes and History items.
?	Share Notes and Histories between contacts—then change a note, and it’s automatically updated in all places. Track completed Activities for each relationship so you know what happened and when.
?	Add searchable Secondary Contacts to easily find assistants, family members and more.
?	Create, send and track e-mail using the built-in ACT! by Sage e-mail. Link correspondence to contacts for a record of what was sent and received.
?	Write letters using the built-in word processor or Microsoft Word.
?	Send letters, e-mail and more with mail merges. Save time with standard letter, e-mail and memo templates.
?	Consolidate and eliminate duplicate records for the cleanest data.

Stay on top of your schedule 24/7

?	Schedule calls, meetings and to-do items quickly and easily.
?	View daily, weekly, monthly, work week—even mini-month calendars. Set alarms so you never miss important meetings or events.
?	Track and sort five different Activity Types—or customize and create your own.
?	Create custom History Types and Priority Levels to help you manage your time. Get immediate notification of any scheduling conflicts. Schedule recurring activities in one easy step
?	Schedule multiple activities around a single event and automatically add those activities to users’ calendars.
?	Set Global Events—like holidays and company events—to appear on everyone’s calendars. Share calendars between users to help see where everyone is at any given time. Manage tasks easily—incomplete activities roll over to the next day so nothing falls through the cracks.
?	Update your calendar with Microsoft Outlook.

Help improve your bottom line

?	Forecast sales with confidence using built-in sales and forecasting tools.
?	View and filter all opportunities in one place with Opportunity List.
?	Choose from the built-in sales process—or create your own.
?	Create or import your product list with item number, cost and price—so everyone has the same data.
?	Generate instant quotes2 for any opportunity without re-entering data.
?	Use the built-in sales reports—or create your own using the improved Report Designer.
?	Track opportunities through the sales cycle with interactive pipeline graphs.
?	Export your opportunity list to Microsoft Excel3 for easy data analysis and reporting.

Be more efficient with secure, shared data

?	Get up and running in minutes—with up to 10 users sharing data
?	Synchronize in the background so all users have the most up-to-date data.
?	Assign up to five security levels to allow different access to information. Link ACT! by Sage with popular accounting programs like Peachtree® and other leading accounting programs.
?	Print any view without having to specify a template.
?	Make records private to keep confidential information to yourself. Works with Microsoft Outlook.5

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