ACT! to Salesforce

Using the Exporter^® product, we will export your ACT! database and import the data into Salesforce

Differences Between ACT! and Salesforce

Account Assignment

In Salesforce, if a Contact is not assigned to an Account (Company), then the record owner is the only user that has access to the Contact. Therefore, when the import files are generated, each Contact is assigned an Account using the following rules:

If a Contact belongs to an ACT! Company, the Account information for that Contact will be taken from the ACT! Company data.
If a Contact does not belong to an ACT! Company and the company name is present in the Contact's record, then this company name will be used to create the Salesforce Account.
If a Contact does not belong to an ACT! Company and the company name is not present in the Contact's record, then the Contact will be assigned to a Salesforce Account, "ACT! Blank Company - Reassign" plus a number to make the Account unique.

Blank Contacts

If the Contact's Contact name is blank and there is a Company name, then the Contact will be named, "Contact at companyname".

Account Addresses

ACT! Companies can have three address fields. Salesforce only has two. When ACT! Company data is used to populate the Salesforce Account addresses, the following rules are used:

If the ACT! company address field contains data and the billing address field is blank, the ACT! company address is moved to the Salesforce billing address.
If both the ACT! company and billing addresses contain data, the ACT! company address is put into a field which will need to be created labeled, "ACT_Company_Address".

Groups

There are no Groups in Salesforce. (Salesforce has something called "Groups," but it represents Groups of Users, not Groups of Contacts.) However, ACT! Groups can be simulated using Salesforce Views. We create a custom field in the Contact object labeled "GroupMembership" which contains a list of all the ACT! Groups the contact belongs to. You can create a View for each ACT! group and use those Views to see your ACT! Groups. If you need assistance with this process, we will be glad to walk you through it.

Open Activities

By default, we import all your Activities (open and completed, timed and untimed, recurring and non-recurring) and Notes as Salesforce non-recurring Tasks. Salesforce Tasks are untimed. Completed Tasks and Notes are displayed in the Activity History section while open tasks are displayed in the Open Activities section of the Account or Contact record or on a To Do list of open tasks. If you wish (for an additional charge), we can bring in your open timed Activities as Salesforce Events. Events have a duration and starting time associated with them and will display on the Calendar (in addition to appearing in Open Activities).

Recurring Activities

By default, ACT! recurring Activities are imported as single occurrence Salesforce Tasks. To help you identify them amd turn them into recurring Tasks, we make the due date the date they are imported into Salesforce (so you can easily find them all in one place), append "Reschedule Recurring" to the start of the Activity Type, append the recurrence frequency to the end of the Activity Type, and append the original start date of the recurring Activity to the end of the Subject. This gives you enough information to manually change these tasks to recurring.

If you wish (for an additional fee), we can instead import your recurring Activities and Recurring Salesforce Tasks and Events (with some important limitations). We will set the initial occurrence of the Task or Event to the first occurrence prior to the date your data is imported into Salesforce. (This eliminates the creation of many open occurrences of the recurring Tasks or Events in the past which you must manually close.) We will set the end date to the earlier of the end date you specified in ACT! or the maximum allowable end date in Salesforce. (Salesforce has much tighter requirements - which vary with the type of recurrence - for the number of recurrences that can be created than does ACT!.)

Please be aware that there are some kinds of recurrences that we are unable to handle. We cannot handle recurrences that are scheduled, for example, for the 2nd Tuesday of each Month. These will be created as Monthly recurrences on the day of the month of the first occurrence in ACT!. We are also unable to identify daily Activities which should only occur on certain days of the week. These will be set to occur every day. Similarly, we cannot identify activities which should be restricted to weekdays or weekends only.

What is Imported

Contacts
Companies as Accounts
Activities as Open Activities (Tasks)
History as Activity History
Notes as Activity History
Leads (possible additional charge)
Secondary Contacts (additional charge)
Opportunities (additional charge)
Opportunity-Product Line Items (additional charge)
Attachments (additional charge)
Timed Activities as Events instead of Tasks (additional charge)
Recurring Tasks and Events as Recurring Tasks and Events instead of specially notated non-recurring Tasks (additional charge)
ACT! Contact/Company Custom Fields (additional charge for over 25)

Pricing

Basic Conversion
$500	Consulting, Analysis, and Support. Discussions of client needs and recommendation of best practices to be used in the migration processes. Support during and after the migration process. This charge is waived for non-profits.
$600	Contacts, Accounts, Notes, History, Activities, Group Membership (including up to 25 Custom fields, up to 50,000 Contacts, and up to 50,000 Activity, History, and Notes records). There is a 50% discount (off the basic conversion charge only) for converting multiple ACT! databases with the same custom fields at the same time.

Additional Charges
$100	Secondary Contacts
$300	Opportunities including Opportunity Contact Roles
$300	Opportunity-Product Line Item Information
$100	Attachments (per 2500 Attachments)
$300	Open Events imported as Events (per 50,000 Open Events)
$600	Recurring Tasks and Events (per 50,000 Recurring Tasks or Events - See limitations to the left)
$100	Each 50,000 Contacts after initial 50,000
$100	Each 50,000 Activity, History, Notes after initial 50,000
$100	Each 25 Custom Fields (created and migrated) after initial 25
$300	Each ACT! “Spillover” Table Utilized
$300	Migrating BOTH Contacts and Leads from the same data file.
$25	Simple Data Translations (per field)
$100	Complex Data Translations requiring formulas or coding (per field)
$300	Implementing up to 2 Record Types (for all objects imported)
$100	Each additional Record Type over 2 (for all objects imported)
$300	Creating custom object with up to 25 fields and migrating data into that object

We offer a 50% discount to non-profits.