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QuickBooks Customer Manager 2.5
QuickBooks Customer Manager 2.5

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From: Intuit
Category: Software

List Price: $79.95
Buy New: $61.18
You Save: $18.77 (23%)



New (15) Used (1)  from $55.00

Avg. Customer Rating: 2.5 out of 5 stars 16 reviews
Sales Rank: 1856

Format: Cd-rom
Platforms: Windows Xp, Windows 98, Windows Vista, Windows 2000
Media: CD-ROM
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2
Dimensions (in): 0.1 x 0.1 x 0

MPN: 298881
Model: 298881
UPC: 028287015005
EAN: 0028287015005
ASIN: B000HBYSF0

Release Date: March 7, 2007
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Condition: SAME CURRENT 2009 PRO VERSION SEALED RETAIL BOX AS DISPLAYED WITH INTACT UPC FOR REGISTRATION & TECH SUPPORT ELIGIBILITY & 60 DAY MONEY BACK GUARATEE * CONTAINS ALL PRODUCT LICENSES ,WARRANTIES, REGISTRATION NUMBERS & USER GUIDE * NEED IT FAST? SAME DAY SHIPPING...SENT BY A VETTED 5 STAR STAFF THAT E-MAILS YOU A USPS DELIVERY CONFIRMATION NUMBER SO YOU CAN TRACK YOUR ORDER FROM OUR DOOR TO YOURS FOR WORRY FREE TRANSACTIONS!

Features:
  • Organize what you need to know about any customer, all on one screen
  • Pulls latest customer information from QuickBooks, Outlook or Outlook Express; keeps information uniform and up to date
  • Communicate with customers efficiently; send personalized e-mails or letters and create new mailing labels
  • Manage project quickly and easily; view appointments, e-mails, letters, faxes, spreadsheets, and more on one screen
  • Simple to learn and use; set-up wizards get you up and running in 30 minutes

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Editorial Reviews:

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QuickBooks Customer Manager 2.5 is the easiest way to provide your customers with great service. It consolidates key customer information from applications such as QuickBooks, Microsoft Outlook and Outlook Express in one place and on one screen. All the information you need to service your customers is now at your fingertips.



Consolidate all your key customer information from QuickBooks, Microsoft Outlook, and Outlook Express in one place. View larger. View product demo (requires Flash).


Summarize all the key customer information you need in one place. View larger.


Share appointments with Microsoft Outlook Calendar. View larger.


Link files, e-mails, pictures or almost anything that relates to a customer or project. View larger.


Easily send personalized communications to a few or a few hundred customers. View larger.
Consolidate Key Customer Information
With QuickBooks Customer Manager 2.5, all the information you need to keep close tabs on your customers are at your fingertips. Whether it's the name and contact information you keep in Outlook or Outlook Express, the appointments you track in Outlook, or the financials such as invoices and balances that you track through QuickBooks, it can all be merged into one easy-to-access location. And with advance customization features, Customer Manager lets you determine the exact information you want synchronized. In other words, it's you're in complete control.

To view a particular customer's QuickBooks financials, you can click on any QuickBooks item in the Recent History pane to jump to QuickBooks to see the actual transaction, whether it's an invoice, payment record, purchase order or check. You can also link directly to your customer's QuickBooks QuickReport. If you use Outlook to manage your calendar, simple click "New Appointment" and Customer Manager will launch Outlook and open an appointment window. You can then create an appointment that will appear in both Outlook and Customer Manager. (If you don't use Outlook, you can use the calendar built-in to Customer Manager to keep track of your appointments. It's easy-to-use and looks similar to a spiral-bound calendar you may keep on your desk.) And finally, the Name Record screen is the nerve center of Customer Manager and summarizes all the key customer information you need in one place. You can see details such as phone numbers, files, projects, appointments, and financial transactions -- all at one quick glance. You can access them in one click.

Among the many panes and action buttons that Customer Manager offers are customer profile, which includes the customer address, phone numbers, contacts, e-mail address, web site and more; recent history, which shows a chronological history of communications, appointments, QuickBooks financial transactions, and related notes and documents; and notes, which allows you to enter details of phone calls and general notes, such as directions to the customer's office, while you're talking with the customer on the phone, and much more.

You can even link files, e-mails, pictures --just about anything that relates to a customer or project -- into one place, regardless of which application it came from. So you can quickly view appointments and e-mails with attachments intact, as well as letters, faxes, logos, artwork, PDF files, spreadsheets, and more. It's easy to drag multiple e-mails at one time, and enter to-do reminders and notes from a phone call or project, and schedule events right in Customer Manager.

Thousands of Details, One Screen
An advanced Project Record feature lets you stay on top of everything related to a project on a single screen. You can use this feature to track all the details related to a project, including contacts, suppliers, vendors and files such as spreadsheets, images, or project plans, as well as set pop-up alerts to remind you of important tasks and appointments, ensuring that nothing slips through the cracks.

But even with all these consolidation features, Customer Manager still lets you keep in close, personal touch with your customers. With it you can easily send personalized messages to a few, or a few hundred, customers. With merge features that let you create Microsoft Word letter templates, you can use your customer information to create letters and labels for quick, cost-effective mailings to any number of your customers.

Easy to Set-up and Use
If you're familiar with QuickBooks financial software, learning how to use Customer Manager will be a breeze because it looks and works just like your financial software. The desktop looks like a browser, and you navigate with one click on the icons, toolbars and links. In fact, even if you are not familiar with QuickBooks, if you're like most people, you can install the software and run through the easy-to-navigate setup and be up and running in about 30 minutes. It's the best steps you'll take to keep your customers and their valuable information in close track.


Product Description
Customer Manager helps small businesses deliver the right level of service, with less stress. Find customer details fast, provide great service to your customers -- and do it all simply.


Customer Reviews:   Read 11 more reviews...

4 out of 5 stars Almost a 5 star product.   November 22, 2008
Customer manager is great for organizing your clients. Like it cause you can create notes and history files about each client, schedules, has a calender built in, syncs great with Quickbooks Pro. The merge contact features is also helpful. Managing client data couldn't be easier. Only draw back is we would like it to start up faster or have a smaller footprint on the system. So we could quickly add something without the whole program starting up. Maybe its wishful thinking. Overall a great product.


4 out of 5 stars Found a fix for the slooooowness and crashes   November 13, 2008
This program is very basic (limited reporting functionality, can't delete or change more than 1 record at a time, etc), but it's simplicity is a positive thing for me since I can fly through sales calls, record them and set times for new ones quicker than with Outlook. The central location of customer information and history of activity is straight forward and helpful.

I liked this program until it started to stall for up to 2 minutes when I opened it, and then would periodically freeze for no reason (at least, a reason unknown to me). It also made Outlook run painfully slow. Ok - to the point - I believe I have fixed that problem on my computer. After the fix described below, our Sales Manager and I haven't had any more of these problems. And now I love the program. So here is what I did:

I separated the database files from the program files and stored them in the following locations:

I installed the program as normal on my C drive (I wasn't successful using other partitioned drives) in this location:

C:\Program Files\Intuit\QuickBooks Customer Manager

I then moved the database files to the following location:

C:\Documents and Settings\joesmith\Local Settings\Application Data\Intuit\QuickBooks Customer Manager\2.5

So inside my 2.5 folder, the database files I move consisted of:

The Backup folder (I believe this will be created once you use Customer Manager the first time, and it will get created in the folder where you database is stored)
The Templates folder
The database file(this has the file extension .qcm).

If you can't find the .qcm database file, you may have to run Customer Manager first to create one.

I'm on Windows XP.

(Just a note for anyone who needs it: the "joesmith" part of of the path above will be different for you - it will be whatever the title is for that user's folder)

I hope this solution may work for some others.




1 out of 5 stars Doesn't Work   October 2, 2008
Bought the product, installed the product,the program will not load. Called customer service, they said they don't know what's wrong, but would research the problem and call me back. That was two weeks ago. NO word from them. The product may work fine in most computers, but their customer service is not.


1 out of 5 stars Shockingly Bad-Stay Away   September 28, 2008
I spent several years with the predecessor to this program only to have my database totally corrupted with no fix. Even when it works, it is painfully slow and crashes frequently. I tried the new version since I now have Vista. It is no better. Although it promises to work with Outlook, it apparently doesn't work with Microsoft Outlook Exchange. Every time I try to sync it just crashes. There is no customer support unless you are willing to pay their ridiculous prices. I've got seven years of data in there but I am ready to abandon it and re-enter the data in another program. Stay away. Intuit should be ashamed of themselves.


5 out of 5 stars great product for my needs   July 29, 2008
 0 out of 1 found this review helpful

This product is exactly what I have needed. It is a smoothly functioning "grand central" for all the documents, Emails, financial information, addresses, etc. connected with all my projects. It works as advertised. It automatically saves entries when they are entered so I have not experienced data loss. The learning curve is easy. By the second day I had it doing everything I needed it to do.

It does this by creating hyperlinks with the information you enter. Do you need to access an Email, or invoice, or document? Just click and it is there. Talk about fast and efficient.

On top of all that, it integrates and sychronizes with Quickbooks Pro and Outlook, and it has a very pleasant interface. I couldn't have asked for more. I'm one of these people who is always looking for the best product to do the job. For me, this is it.


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