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What is Act! CRM?

Act! CRM (formerly Swiftpage) aims to empower small businesses to build and manage client relationships and leads, so the user always has a pipeline of new, repeat, and referral business under control. Users can manage their businesses with Act! CRM…

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Essentials

$22

Cloud
per user, per month

Act! Premium - Basic

$37.50

On Premise
per user, per month (billed annually)

Standard

$40

Cloud
per user, per month

Entry-level set up fee?

  • No setup fee
For the latest information on pricing, visithttps://www.act.com/products/pricing

Offerings

  • Free Trial
  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Starting price (does not include set up fee)

  • $22 per month
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Product Details

What is Act! CRM?

Act! CRM (formerly Swiftpage) aims to empower small businesses to build and manage client relationships and leads, so the user always has a pipeline of new, repeat, and referral business under control. Users can manage their businesses with Act! CRM every day, since it’s more than a CRM – it’s designed to present everything needed to stay on top of relationships, see what’s most important and actionable, and run sales and marketing in one place.

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Act! CRM Technical Details

Deployment TypesOn-premise, Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating Systems,
Mobile ApplicationNo

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Act! CRM starts at $22.

Reviewers rate Role-based user permissions highest, with a score of 8.

The most common users of Act! CRM are from Small Businesses (1-50 employees).
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Reviews From Top Reviewers

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ACT! the best CRM for marketing companies

Rating: 10 out of 10
November 05, 2021
TR
Vetted Review
Verified User
Act! CRM
15 years of experience
We use ACT! CRM daily. ACT! is the software used for each of our clients and is used for company marketing. ACT! has templates available for auto mailers and is very user-friendly. I have been using ACT! since 2004 and find its feature to be exactly what is needed to manage marketing tasks.
ACT! has mobile applications that help with business tasks on the go. I would highly recommend this software.
  • Keeps prospect contact info
  • Documents history
  • Calendar features
Cons
  • Connection with a VOIP type system
  • Integration with other email applications
  • Analytics
ACT! is best used in a marketing call center type situation. We have many clients on board and can assign our marketing reps different ACT! databases based on need for scheduling purposes. I would not recommend ACT! for a single salesperson scenario since the set up process is more suited for a company situation.

SwiftPage ACT still delivers value in the age of the Cloud

Rating: 8 out of 10
September 13, 2014
Vetted Review
Verified User
Act! CRM
3 years of experience
While at my former employer, we decided to move down from SalesLogix to SwiftPage ACT! due to ease of maintenance, cost, customization, mobile, and web access found in SageACT! We had detailed experience with SalesLogix as a business partner but never used, sold, or supported SwiftPage ACT. The tool was used for leads and prospects. And, one of the compelling reasons for using the system was the integration with SwiftPage email marketing solution which provided Lead Call Lists which allowed our email marketing, surveys, and database to be integrated. With the integration, we could easily see who was a "hot" lead based on times they opened an email campaign and then assign out for proper handling by a telemarketer. As of 8/2014, SwiftPage has sold off SalesLogix. Therefore, I am hopeful this will allow for SwiftPage to concentrate on their sole product now.
  • Integrated Email Marketing: For a small business, you can have a strong method to handle email marketing in an integrated non-disparate solution.
  • Tailoring: There are no limits on what data you can store in the system and the ease of making changes can be done by a nontechnical person.
  • User Interface: The tool is easy to get around in both the desktop (fat client) and (webclient) which both are quite similar in functionality.
  • Integration: The tool integrates with Word, Excel, and Outlook nicely. And, it integrates with Google Mail and Contacts. There is a nice selection of third party tools available for various needs like AddressGrabber which allows for easy input of contacts from various sources such as email signatures, webpages, etc.
  • Templates: I have enjoyed being able to store tons of various templates for letters which we use over and over for various communications like sales proposals, quotes, and nudging clients along the funnel and sales process.
  • Automation: SwiftPage ACT! has a small business automation engine which allows for reminders and workflow to be administered by the system. It's not as sophisticated as some enterprise workflow automation solutions but for the price it's an awesome addition.
  • Maintenance: Very rarely have a problem which needs to be dealt with and costs to upgrade are minimal at best. We hosted the system internally for the web client and implemented it ourselves initially but had upgrades subsequently done by a local partner simply due to time/cost scenario. In other words, less to have someone else do it.
Cons
  • Social Integration: The tool has a basic feed for LinkedIn information to feed into the system. The infusion of more Social Selling "signals" and "feeds" would be very helpful to instill more social selling into the framework.
  • Account vs. Contact: If you are a company which works to B to B rather than B to C there is a still a bit of cumbersome way to handle "joining" accounts and contacts through links. It is better with 16.1 release but still it's a "contact" centric solution which is great for some business relationships like realtors, insurance, & financial services etc.
Account or Contact centric selling environment? Are you fostering a "social selling" environment? Will Email Marketing be sufficient in your future? If you are moving beyond email marketing and want the tool to integrate with a full Marketing Automation platform such as ACT-On (not the same company) or HubSpot, then this is not the tool for you.

ACT! and Swiftpage, a perfect team for your e-mail campaings

Rating: 6 out of 10
August 26, 2015
HK
Vetted Review
Verified User
Act! CRM
5 years of experience
We use ACT! as our main database for lead generation together with Swiftpage Connect for e-mail marketing. As we are a small IT consulting company it is being used by 1 person (me) for all marketing activities. We make our newsletters and other e-mail templates in Swiftpage and then use ACT! to send them out to specific groups.

We do not use any other (CRM, Agenda, activities) module of ACT!
  • What I really like are the interactions between ACT! and Swiftpage, it is a breeze sending out e-mail blasts.
  • It is also very easy to keep our prospect and client base synced between ACT! and Outlook.
  • You can have your customers interactions with your e-mail blast imported in ACT! so you can select the ones that really opened and clicked your e-mail.
Cons
  • Not all templates in Swiftpage are as easy as they look, especialy editing advanced templates tends to mess things up.
  • Selecting leads on specific interactions within Swiftpage does require some in depth training.
  • I would like some marketing automation, to feed the Swiftpage drip campaigns.
Act! and Swiftpage work best If you are a small company and do not require advanced e-mail analytics or marketing automation. We do have a special line of business application for interacting with our clients, but otherwise the agenda and activities in ACT! would be a nice benefit. Some more integration between ACT! and Swiftpage Connect would be beneficial, as well as a better on-line editor for the advanced templates.

RUN, Do not walk away from Swiftpage ACT!

Rating: 1 out of 10
March 24, 2021
TK
Vetted Review
Verified User
Act! CRM
20 years of experience
We have used ACT! initially for a business then for several non-profit organizations. When we started over 20 years ago ACT! was cutting edge and the software actually worked well. Version 21 is an unqualified disaster. Please RUN, do not walk away from this product. Find a company that actually values their clients enough to give them functioning software. Bulk email with EMarketing was awful and now ACT! Marketng Automation has figured out to be even worse. So we recently installed Version 23 which was reported as a major fix. It disrupted all printing on Dymo label printers that has still not been solved. You can't find trend lines and consistent bad performance.
  • Swiftpage ACT! unilaterally and retroactively changed the terms of all clients previously with ACT! Premium. We renewed September 2019 but they essentially cancelled this contract two months into the 12 month period. The really know how to increase revenue with nearly a 50% price increase. If you are a Swiftpage stockholder you are pretty happy about all of this. We clients are not.
  • No known strengths.
Cons
  • Many of us need to send a lot more emails than our standard email accounts will allow. We all also need to conform to federal laws about sending emails. So working with reputable firms that do bulk emails is essential. So we have to use third party services. EMarketing was awful. We would revise a template, dutifully save it multiple times, confirm our changes had been captured, and then send out an email campaign we were comfortable was going to work. Well, despite having done QC and being diligent about saving our work, Swiftpage sent out a version that reflected few if any of our changes. We totally lost confidence with EMarketing.
  • So Swiftpage's answer to the bulk email problem they created with EMarketing was to tell all their clients if they did not immediately move to version 21 they were going to lose all email capability. EMarketing was being shut down and all of us would have no capability to send emails. So let's do a little extortion and say with a nearly 50% increase in price we can help you.
  • Best of luck getting ACT! Marketing Automation to actually work! We have already wasted a lot of hours and have nothing to show for the lost time. The reason we are so convinced no one should have to endure the loss we have already suffered.
  • The software is so badly written customers are either forced to pay technical support to solve problems their software coders created or look to replace ACT.
If you are trying to present a professional image to your clients we would strongly recommend finding another vendor besides Swiftpage.
If you have an extensive IT staff that is seriously under utilized, then getting involved with Swiftpage will create all kinds of demands for their time to address all the glitches in version 21. We installed Version 23 which introduced more new errors.

ACT! Helps you keep your act and business together

Rating: 8 out of 10
September 04, 2020
MW
Vetted Review
Verified User
Act! CRM
10 years of experience
I use ACT! to manage the business and marketing side of Kevin Caron Studios. It is pivotal in keeping communications organized between the company and potential and existing patrons, vendors, and colleagues. It helps me keep track of sales leads and serves as a repository of history—it's very helpful to be able to refer to something that happened in the past. Additionally, we use it for direct mail marketing.
  • Organize data
  • Reminders about appointments and actions.
  • Preserve and easily retrieve history.
Cons
  • I'd like a cleaner interface between Gmail and ACT! without having to have all emails included in ACT!
  • I'd like "fuzzier" search. If I search for Mary it could also return Marie, much like the big search engines do.
  • I'd like more flexibility in name handling.
ACT! handles lots of data well, although its search function could be a little more flexible. It has, thus far, been bullet-proof as far as errors and backup (knock on wood). It isn't used to dealing with contacts that are 2 people (couples) with different last names, something specific to our business.
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