zoho biginI have received literally hundreds of inquiries since Act Pro was discontinued. Some of my Act Pro customers understand this decision and ultimately move to the subscription based Act Premium for Web ($360-480/user/year) or Act Premium Desktop ($450/user/year less discounts) version. Others, however, “refuse to move to a subscription” and decide to use their Act Pro version until it literally “stops working.” Unfortunately, my experience has been that their Act Pro stops working at the worst possible time. Sometimes this happens when they have a hard drive or other computer failure and find that they have to reinstall Act; more often than not, they are unable to register their old Act Pro.

Many long-time Act Pro users have very  basic needs – and very limited budgets. For those users I often recommend Zoho’s Bigin product for several reasons:

  • Bigin Prices range from free to $144/user/year, or can be purchased on a monthly basis for $9 – $15/user/month depending on your needs.
  • Bigin offers as many, if not more, features than Act Pro
  • There is an easy path to upgrade your data to the full-fledged Zoho CRM, or downgrade your data if you find you are not using all of the functionality

In short, Bigin contains all of the features of Act Pro – with a much smaller price tag:

  • Customization: Tailor Bigin to fit your business.
  • Pipeline Management: Organize your tasks, activities and pipelines to ensure that nothing falls through the cracks.
  • Task Management: Create, follow up and complete tasks directly from within your pipeline.
  • Product Management: Bigin includes solutions for your product management.
  • Customer Management: Convert Leads into Customers.
  • Import, Export and Migrate: Transfer data seamlessly from spreadsheets to Bigin.
  • Forms: Create customizable forms and share them across your other channels to gather potential information quickly.

Looking for a Bigin trial? Click HERE.

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