Daylite 3 by Marketcircle
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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.
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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.
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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.76 of 85 people found this useful
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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.
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