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Daylite 3 by Marketcircle

Simply the best ever and over all time since 1985

Written by DM from Beloeil

Jul 21, 2009

We have tried to use many planning products, even our own, designed in 4d.

This product is the genius of forward thinkers.

If you cannot figure it out, there is always iCal and Address.

If you really want to shake and jive in the business world, using a Mac, this is it.

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Daylite 3 by Marketcircle

Works Well, but be prepared...

Written by WC from Alpharetta

May 16, 2009

Very full featured product, probably the best in its class for Mac. But they price their products like an old carnival show: want to integrate with your mail application, that's extra; what about sending yourself a report on a set schedule, again that's an extra cost; want to integrate w MYOB, Lightspeed, MoneyWorks, or Filemaker, agin have your credit card out for each one. And, if you download the "Free" Daylite Touch Application for your iPhone you are going to also need your credit card (it cost $50 per application per year to activate the application). Additionally, if you want to use your iphone Daylite Touch Application while the Daylite Program is running on your Mac, you need to purchase another license for the Daylite program. So, you should consider all of these extra costs in deciding which program is best for you (cost/benefit analysis). I am having second thoughts about staying w this program.

96 of 97 people found this useful

Daylite 3 by Marketcircle

A bit too much and lacks all in one view

Written by MM from Naperville

Feb 14, 2009

You can visit the company's website and download a 30 day full version free trial of the productivity suite. Highly recommended. While I can see this working for multiple people who work in a small business. I was looking for a software suite that could function a bit better than Entourage...more like FranklinCovey's PlanPlus. This missed the mark. I would say that if you are a person who has a lot of information to manage and schedules projects out then this might be a good program for you. Give the free trial a whirl and see if it works. Personally, Entourage meets my needs for now.

30 of 33 people found this useful

Daylite 3 by Marketcircle

Wishing Daylite would ACT more logical!

Written by MP from Carmel

Sep 16, 2008

The primary usefulness of ACT lies in it's ability to see all customized fields for a given contact in one window. With Daylite I have to go the Forms window> find the form> double click on it> then scroll down the list to see all the fields in bland linear form. TOTAL TIME WASTER. Whatever happened to drag and drop custom fields into a nice contact view layout? Is that really so hard?

Also why does designing customized letter templates require a Master Degree? With ACT I could just use design customized designs in an already familiar MS Word.

Why can't I mail merge custom fields into customized letter templates. I have spent 6 months trying to figure this out- to no avail.

I would LOVE to love Daylite- as ACT has limitations, too - but Daylite seems to take a giant steps backward in it's attempt at market dominance with CRM. My transition to Mac has been smooth EXCEPT for the CRM transition. The only reason I have VMWare Fusion on my Mac is to use Windows for ACT.

I want to go Mac native for everything and that means accessing my 700+ customer base with 40+ custom fields each into a user-friendly WYSIWYG CRM.

Marketcirlce- this is your window to grab the market while ACT is still asleep on a Mac version. If you don't adapt- ACT will be back.

74 of 83 people found this useful

Daylite 3 by Marketcircle

Daylite helps me succeed

Written by JP from Dunwoody

Jul 9, 2008

I started my own consulting business 18 months ago. When starting out I tried several web based free and low cost CRM tools - all too difficult to set up and use. Then I found Daylite. I started with the 30 day trial version and purchased before the trial was up. The product has worked wonderfully for me and is helping me be successful in my new business. It is extraordinarily helpful in managing my contacts and projects. My business has grown to where I'm bringing on two consultants this month. Daylite has helped me leverage my hard work to get to this point.

I'm buying two Apple laptops and will be putting Daylite on them for my consultants to use in helping manage client activities and for them to help with marketing activities. Hopefully they'll come up to speed as quickly as I did. The online training videos are helpful as is the manual; they're not as thorough or complete as I would have liked though - some additional effort is needed there. I invested in a class from one of the Daylite consultants - MacAngel - which was reasonable and very helpful in filling the knowledge gap.

When I started my business, I switched over to Macs and then got Daylite. I've become a bit evangelistic about both because they've made a significant positive difference to me.

39 of 47 people found this useful

Daylite 3 by Marketcircle

Looks great but too difficult to use

Written by EH from Argyle

May 11, 2008

After two weeks of working to get up to speed on Daylite our team sent it back. Lots of great ideas but just not intuitive. Video tutorials helped but did not address HOW modules function leaving our team repeatedly baffled and frustrated. The consensus of our team of 5 seasoned mac users was that software engineers and programers who have worked on this product for years no longer understand how people could not understand what to them is obvious and intuitive. If Daylite took 50 people off the street, paid them to use their software for 2 hrs, and watched how they stumbled and got stuck trying to utilize this contact manager they might learn how to take a software package with potential and make it great.

64 of 77 people found this useful

Daylite 3 by Marketcircle

Daylite rocks our world every day

Written by NR from almonte

May 4, 2008

We run 5 Macs and a lone PC in our office. And Daylite runs us on those Macs. I really appreciate the alerts on tasks and appointments, and also the new sync feature with iPhone/iPod touch that has extended Daylite planning to the palm of my hand. Have started tracking opportunities only recently (great) and still haven't started running reports yet, but our experience is it takes a year or so get all the essential juices out of Daylite. Interface keeps getting better. Go for it.

30 of 49 people found this useful

Daylite 3 by Marketcircle

It's a normal software for normal people

Written by FO from Emmenbruecke

Apr 5, 2008

it can be used in a 2-10 People office quite well... Synchronisation is not really fast and filter dobble contacts in the build in adressbook is a catastrophe... but if you respect Daylite, Daylite will respect you, too at work. :-)

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Daylite 3 by Marketcircle

The Pitts

Written by CM from Altaville

Feb 22, 2008

Don't waste your money. I was flogged by this software for 1 year trying to get it working good and gave up. Lots of great ideas that don't work well. The syncing is a joke the notes won't sync over to a Palm. Why have notes ? Oh well now I use an Ipod Touch and use ical and Contacts flawlessly.

44 of 86 people found this useful

Daylite 3 by Marketcircle

Daylite is limited

Written by TD from Sunbury

Feb 11, 2008

It's an okay program. I just switched from Windows and ACT! to Mac and this is the only option we Mac users really have and it is limited in its capabilities. It only works with Apple Mail so you are limited there and also must sync with iCal and address book or it won't go on your iPhone. Someone needs to develop a stand alone all inclusive CRM for the sales and marketing field. This and other offerings just don't do the job. Plus, there is very little options for obtaining training on this product as well.

49 of 91 people found this useful

Daylite 3 by Marketcircle

MarketCircle DayLite Dangerous: Causes Permanent Data Loss, Beware

Written by IA from EAST PATCHOGUE

Dec 30, 2007

This is a downright dangerous and data-destroying program. Read more below and check online before you risk your data with DayLite.

After my old beloved program Common Knowledge's Arrange (WebArrange) of past years went out of business, I had to settle for Daylite several versions ago. It seemed to promise the combination of time/contact/task/calendar and project management that I sought.

Over time, despite being buggy, and slow, I put up with the introductions of new and serious bugs every time the product was "updated" but by then was too stuck using it to move away.

In the last year, the product's new 'improved' version actually broke things that worked in previous versions. If you have a significant sized contact list, you can be assured of synching nightmares with AddressBook.

You are also almost guaranteed to suffer permanent data loss, where Daylite will repeatedly destroy your data in AddressBook and other places.

A detailed PDF shows screenshots and details of how your data will be destroyed by Daylite.

Google DayLiteCausesDataLoss and see for yourself.

They have apparently disabled some basic functionality now so LESS of your data can be destroyed --- but now you need to manually check/add/edit data in AddressBook AND DayLite, e.g. URLs for a company.

For individuals Daylite is complex, poorly explained, somewhat esoterically architected, and hard to learn.

For professionals and businesses, it had great potential but can you afford to lose not just time but actual data to a buggy program?

Your choice.

190 of 266 people found this useful

Daylite 3 by Marketcircle

Much better than others

Written by PL from Victoria

Nov 27, 2007

Moved to this after using Maximizer for 8 years, business expanded and we needed to go from one user to 3, for the price of enterprise version of Maximizer we were able to get this and a new macbook for each user.

This product is versatile and easy to use, very understandable even as we were new to MAC. Using this with an iMac as the office server, and us using Macbooks with VPN Tracker 4, to dial in from anywhere and it works fine.

One interesting note was that it was less expensive for us to put parallels and xp on our macbooks instead of paying a tech to transfer all the back up info from maximizer.

Overall highly recommend this software for multiple users and integrating perfectly with other mac software.

42 of 82 people found this useful

Daylite 3 by Marketcircle

GREAT! for multi-user network

Written by RC from Dakota City

Oct 17, 2007

We run small biz and share ALL info. We've used Daylite since the early days and Marketcircle keeps making good software better. Works well on LAN and even quite well on WAN. Can't go wrong.

59 of 106 people found this useful

Daylite 3 by Marketcircle

Awesome "calendar!"

Written by PH from denver

Mar 9, 2007

This is one of, if not the, best calendar/time-management systems I've used. It works seamlessly with Mail and was a snap to use--completely intuitive. If I have any complaint, it's that I can mark an appointment as tentative, or complete, etc., but it doesn't show that information on the calendar. But if that's its only fault, boy!! A top recommentation!

220 of 320 people found this useful