- Catégorie : News
- Écrit par : Super User
- 11 février 2020
This week Swiftpage will be announcing the sunsetting of their Act! eMarketing service effective December 31st, 2020. “AEM”, as it’s known, was the successor to their flagship Swiftpage eMarketing service, but quickly became redundant with the acquisition of Inbox Guru, which later came to be known as Act! marketing Automation.
Swiftpage has made no secret of the fact that Act! Marketing Automation is the future of the Act! product, and the backbone of their new Act! Growth Suite offerings
Lire la suite : Act! eMarketing (AEM) to be sunset at end of 2020
- Catégorie : News
- Écrit par : Super User
- 10 février 2020
In case you missed it, Swiftpage launched a new version of Act! Growth Suite in November, and last week they spruced it up with the release of a major update. To watch a Swiftpage video tour of the new features introduced with Act! v22, click the play button below.
Or click HERE to watch Keystroke's feature overview video.
Act! Growth Suite is an all-in-one sales and marketing platform that provides SMBs with everything they need to successfully run and grow their business. The latest
Lire la suite : Have you looked at the new Act! Growth Suite (v22)?
- Catégorie : News
- Écrit par : Super User
- 10 février 2020
Prior to May 2015, Swiftpage (and Sage before them) sold Act! as a perpetual license, which is to say customers paid one price and then often drove it into the ground, or until compatibility issues or the allure of new features compelled them to upgrade. Once subscription was introduced, Act! became less expensive to get into, with recurring expenses many found easier to budget for. As much as people loved owning the software, subscription reduced the barrier to entry and made costs more
Lire la suite : Perpetual Act! licenses are unpopular for a reason
- Catégorie : News
- Écrit par : Super User
- 6 août 2019
Are you ready?
In July of 2014, the Canadian government introduced the Canadian Anti-Spam Legislation, commonly known as CASL, which was far and away the most aggressive legislative move to combat spam in the world. CASL shifted the burden of including an “opt out” mechanism with all marketing emails (CANSPAM ACT 2013), to an “Opt in” requirement (CASL 2014), with offenders facing unprecedened fines.
CASL was introduced in three phases, and came into force by the following
Lire la suite : Canadian Anti-Spam Legislation enters it’s final stage in 2017
- Catégorie : News
- Écrit par : Super User
- 6 août 2019
Act! is now supporting Office 2016 on Act! v17, with the currently known issue linked in this article. Development is currently investigating any issues reported specific to Office 2016 and will provide updates when available. Previous versions of Act! may work with Office 2016, but no testing was done. If issues are encountered, no updates will be offered for Act! v16 and earlier versions of Act!. Act! v18 will fully support Office 2016.
As with previous versions of Office, only 32-bit
Lire la suite : Is Act! compatible with Microsoft Office 2016?
- Catégorie : News
- Écrit par : Super User
- 6 août 2019
This is an email one of our reps sent to a customer who was upgrading to ACT subscription.
We though it was so thorough and clear, we decided to reprint it verbatim.
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Hi <customer name>
To be clear, Act is no longer offering a model where you buy it and own the software – the $342 option is essentially a one year subscription + a perpetual license option ($171 for the year + $171 for the option) such that when your subscription
- Catégorie : News
- Écrit par : Super User
- 6 août 2019
Steps to Reproduce
- Have an installed version of Act 17.1 with Swiftpage emarketing setup and working.
- Use the service pack upgrade to upgrade to 17.2.
- Check for Swiftpage emarketing icon on contact layout.
- Check in Tools > Manage Addons.
Actual Result:
There are several results associated with this:
- The icon is now missing from the contact toolbar and no plugin shows in Manage Addons.
- ACTSPE2005 does not appear in Tools > Manage Addons
- Marketing Info tab is missing from the
- Catégorie : News
- Écrit par : Super User
- 6 août 2019
Many customers have reported issues with accessing the Documents Tab within their ACT database after upgrading to Windows 10. While it does not effect everyone, it is a documented compatibility issue with Windows 10, and an installable fix is expected soon from Swiftpage. In the meantime, we offer the following workaround to address the issue.
Issue: Act! crashes when trying to use the documents tab or when trying to attach a file to a note when using Act! on a Windows 10 computer
- Catégorie : News
- Écrit par : Super User
- 6 août 2019
This article highlights the differences in the Act! Premium v17 and Act! Premium for Web v17 features. With all the improvements made to the Web products capabilities in v16 and v17, many ACT administrators wonder what they’re actually giving up by not having the Windows client installed on their user’s computers. The short answer is less than before, but still far from nothing.
Features Unavailable in Act! Premium (Web) via Web Browser:
- Add additional user licenses to the
Lire la suite : What Act! Premium v17 Features are not Available in Act! Premium for Web
- Catégorie : News
- Écrit par : Super User
- 6 août 2019
Microsoft announced the release of Windows® 10 on July 29, 2015. Upgrading to Windows® 10 introduces many new features, some of which may affect Act!. We highly recommend performing a complete backup of your Act! database prior to upgrading to Windows®, though the current version of Act! (v17) is fully supported. We have additional recommendations to make your transition as smooth as possible – please visit the following Knowledgebase article to review our best practice guide: KB#38171.
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