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By James E. Powell
WinSales has been sailing with plenty of wind in its sales for quite some time. The latest version handles your contacts every step of the way-from automatically printing a cover letter to transferring the contact to another track. Contacts move through a track when an event is triggered as defined in the Event Trigger language, a Visual Basic-like language that's not for the faint of heart.
Version 3.2 provides a new high-powered tool to help you deal with contact data at any single point along the track. You can build a quote for a client, or branch through a telemarketing script. The program displays Wizard Assistant questions much as any other Windows application would.
Also new is NetSync, which lets you synchronize your files using the Internet.
Mail merge, combined with the optional Trigger Development Kit, lets you create an HTML form to collect data on your Web page, then create a mail message that WinSales can decode. You can create a mail-merge HTML file that contains a built-in form and links to special pages, then attach this HTML file to an e-mail message that goes to your client.
WinSales is moving from a sales/contact management system into a very rich sales automation program, handling so many tasks automatically that you'll think you're using a sophisticated mainframe application. The trade-off is that there's a stiff learning curve, and you'll probably want to engage the expertise of a WinSales consultant who has been trained in the Trigger language.
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WinSales 3.2
Price: Single, $495; 5 users, $1,495; NetSync, $99 per remote
user; Trigger Development Kit, $995 per seat
Pros: Sophisticated event processing
Cons: Consultant needed for full value
Disk Space: 9MB
RAM: 4MB (8MB recommended)
Platforms: 3x, 95
WinSales
206-747-2464, fax 206-747-2955
WinMag Box Score 4.0
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