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Daylite for iPad featured by Apple

January 24, 2012 on 12:38 pm | Ryan

Apple has featured Daylite for iPad in their Customer Relationship Management document, on their iPad at Work page.

The PDF document helps explain how iPad can be used successfully to manage businesses relationships:

iPad is an incredible mobile sales tool to help you manage your customer relationships. With Wi-Fi + 3G connectivity and an amazing 10-hour battery life, iPad keeps you connected throughout the day to command the facts you need, so you’re always prepared for all your client meetings. The instant-on capability of iPad gives you immediate access to your company’s customer relationship management (CRM) data—whether you’re onsite at a customer meeting, in the office, or on the road.

Daylite is highlighted as one of iPad’s most useful apps for managing customer relationships. When you’re looking up customer information on the go, you don’t just see their personal information. Read the rest of this entry »

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Marketcircle Cloud Status page

November 17, 2011 on 11:29 am | Ryan

We’ve created a page for users to easily check on the status of Marketcircle Cloud (currently powering Billings Pro).

When we have an announcement to make about Marketcircle Cloud we’ll post it on this page. We’ll also continue to send out a tweet from the @marketcircle account with a #status tag.

Upcoming maintenance on our Cloud system will also be posted on this page.

You can bookmark the new Marketcircle Cloud Status page, or find it easily from our website’s navbar under the support header.

Thanks!

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Billings Touch 1.1.6 now available

November 11, 2011 on 12:46 pm | Ryan

Billings Touch 1.1.6 is now available in the App Store (you can update directly from the App Store on your iOS device, or through iTunes on your Mac).

This release fixes issue that broke compatibility with iOS 3.1.

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[UPDATE] Migrating MobileMe to iCloud

October 14, 2011 on 10:37 pm | Ryan

We’ve done some research into the MobileMe to iCloud migration feature (which was not apart of the iCloud Developer Beta).

We have a couple of findings on the Daylite front:

  1. If you do not turn off Address Book sync in Daylite, you will indeed get duplicates
  2. Once you’ve migrated your contacts to iCloud, those contacts no longer participate in Sync Services, thus there is no sync happening between your Daylite contacts and your iCloud contacts

How to get around these:

  1. In Daylite, go to the preferences and turn off contact synchronization before you migrate from MobileMe to iCloud. Once migrated, do not turn on contact synchronization, otherwise, you will get duplicates.
  2. We know that the great majority of our users use Address Book sync to get Caller ID functionality and for address, email, phone completion in various other apps (i.e. Mail). You can accomplish this with iCloud by exporting your desired contacts from Daylite as vCards and importing them into Address Book in your iCloud group. Periodically, you can re-export your contacts from Daylite and re-import them in Address Book. From our testing, Address Book seems to detect duplicates fine. Be careful not to replace or overwrite records that have been edited in Address Book.
  3. To get new contacts from Address Book on your iPhone into Daylite, use the new “Import iOS Contact” in Daylite Touch. On your Mac, use the “Import vCard” menu.

We fully understand that having access to your Daylite contact and calendar data outside the Daylite ecosystem is important and we are working towards a long term solution.

For Billings and Billings Pro, the migration from MobileMe to iCloud has no noticeable effect as far as we can tell (we do not use Sync Services in those apps).

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iOS 5 compatibility

October 11, 2011 on 3:52 pm | Ryan

Just a quick post to let everyone know about our apps and their compatibility with iOS 5:

Daylite

Daylite Touch is iOS 5 compatible. It works fine on iPhone and iPad running iOS 5.

Billings and Billings Pro Touch

Billings Touch 1.1.5 and Billings Pro Touch 1.5.1 add support for TextExpander touch.

Billings Touch 1.1.5 is now available in the App Store.

Billings Pro Touch has been submitted to the App Store but is still awaiting Apple’s approval. The current version of Billings Pro Touch work fine – there are just a few minor UI glitches that you may encounter, but otherwise it functions as expected.

Stay tuned to the Marketcircle blog or follow us on twitter to stay up to date with Marketcircle news.

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Billings is a staff favourite

August 29, 2011 on 4:59 pm | Ryan

Glad to see that Billings is a staff favourite…although we already knew that ;)

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Apps are working fine on 10.6.8

June 23, 2011 on 5:15 pm | Ryan

Just a quick note: we’ve tested all of our applications and everything is working fine on Apple’s latest OS X update, 10.6.8.

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The future of software is looking good

June 16, 2011 on 12:41 pm | AJ

A while back we introduced our Cloud strategy. We described how we thought things should be – native apps + data in the Cloud + automatic background sync. The best of both worlds in our opinion.

Does this sound familiar now?

If not, it should. It’s very similar to Apple’s newly announced iCloud. The main difference between the app side of iCloud and our Cloud system is that ours is multi-user, multi-device, whereas iCloud is single-user, multi-device.

Now that Steve Jobs has described what he thinks is the best way to do software, there’s all kinds of punditry going on from the likes of John Gruber, Tim Bray, and many more.

All I can say is that it feels good that our strategy has been validated. We felt confident that our Cloud and native app strategy was the better approach (over Cloud and browser), and we feel even more confident now that Apple agrees.

Doesn’t it make a lot of sense? Computers are getting faster and more efficient all the time, yet people suggest that everything should go through the narrow, latency based channel of the browser. To make things better in the browser world, techniques such as AJAX and local storage have been hacked in. Sure there are many things the browser is right for (like this blog), but for all apps? I don’t think so.

Now one can argue that we can’t reach everyone if we go with OS X and iOS native apps, but at 254 million devices and counting – it’s a decent audience.

I for one am happy that the future isn’t totally browser based. The future is looking good!

Until next time…
AJ

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A tech consultant using Billings

February 18, 2011 on 12:33 pm | Ryan

Our latest Billings case study comes from The Mac Jedi; a consultant specializing in tech support for Apple products that started his business back in 1995.

Rob uses Billings on his Mac and iPhone – you can read his full story here.

As always, if you’re interested in participating in a case study (for any of our products), send me an email.

You can check out all of our Billings case studies by clicking on this link.

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Billings is the Top Paid Business App

January 7, 2011 on 2:36 pm | Ryan

The Mac App Store is doing well. Apple has reported over one million app downloads during its first day.

Billings has done quite well too, holding the Top Paid position in the Business Apps category of the Mac App Store.

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Along with the success of the Mac App Store came a myriad of questions for developers.

To start things off, there are no feature differences between the version of Billings that ships in the Mac App Store, and the one currently available on our website. Billings 3.7 was released exclusively for the Mac App Store.

Realmac Software covered two of the more frequent questions in a blog post earlier today.

Since they communicated these things well, here are the answers (company name changed to Marketcircle in the second question):

The App Store shows an app as already “Installed”
The “Installed” button appears because the Mac App store is identifying applications that have the same internal application identifier on both the Mac App Store and from the developer’s own store. As such, it’s more a bug on Apple’s side than a confirmation that you can update your copy of the apps from within the App Store. You can only update applications purchased via the Mac App Store using the Mac App Store.

Can I easily move my Marketcircle-bought copy of an app to the Mac App Store?
Unfortunately not. The App Store has no way to migrate existing users to the Mac App Store purchase history (and uses an entirely different, Apple-specific, way of securing purchases).

Macworld also wrote a great article entitled “The Mac App Store: What you need to know“.

If you’ve downloaded a trial of Billings and wish to purchase it from the Mac App Store, please follow these steps.

Since Billings can be purchased 3 different ways. We’ve written an article that outlines the differences.

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