| | |  | Business & Office | Home » » » » Daylite 3 (Mac) | | | | | | | Description: | | Daylite works at the center of your business, helping you stay on track and deliver on time. From shared calendars to simple projects, to contact management to email integration, Daylite keeps you organized and frees your mind of clutter. Get Daylite, worry less and spend time doing what you do best. | | | Product Details: | | | Product Length:
| 7.59 inches | | Product Width:
| 5.34 inches | | Product Height:
| 1.29 inches | | Product Weight:
| 0.3 pounds | | Package Length:
| 7.4 inches | | Package Width:
| 5.35 inches | | Package Height:
| 1.65 inches | | Package Weight:
| 0.31 pounds | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 23 reviews |
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| Mac OS X | | Media:
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37 of 38 found the following review helpful:
 Daylite 3 - Much improvedMar 22, 2007
By Peter Clayton
"Total Picture Radio"
I had first tried Daylite several years ago when I returned to the Mac platform. The one application I really missed from the PC world was ACT. Although I thought Daylight was interesting, the learning curve was really steep - (it is sold without a printed manual - which you can order at an extra cost. - You do get a PDF version of their manual and a good help interface). After a while, I returned to using Now's popular CMS for the Mac.
I recently gave Daylite another try, and am happy to report that Mac users now have a real CMS on-par with ACT and GoldMine. Daylite 3 is a huge improvement over previous versions. I have spent several hours learning the features of Daylight 3 - and have felt this is a very worthwhile investment. There are many ways to customize the application to organize information and contacts in a way that's most useful to the way your work, and your business.
You can add an optional application that allows you to link your contacts with your Mac email - a very useful function. I use a Blackberry, and with Pocket Mac I am able to sync my Daylite files on my Blackberry - another crucial factor for me. Anyone trying to track projects, proposals, clients - and just be more organized, will find Daylite a valuable tool. In my opinion, this is the best CMS available for Mac.
20 of 21 found the following review helpful:
 Far from perfectDec 23, 2008
By Eddie
I have to disagree with the previous reviewers. I have used Daylite almost since its inception. It was one of the most promising applications of its kind. Now Up to Date & Contact took too long to move to OS X. Chronos Consultant eventually became SOHO Organizer. Out of the available options, I chose Daylite. It was powerful, had a nice interface, and was rapidly evolving.
Fast forward to a few days shy of 2009. My choice these days is Contactizer Pro.
Is it better? Not necessarily. I don't think there's an adequate PIM/CRM application for the Mac. Both of these are "almost" there, but neither truly fulfills its potential. Daylite does have additional functionality, although that often comes at an expense. Mail integration and other modules are not free.
Support from both companies is inadequate. Daylite offers a manual, a forum, and mail support. Unfortunately they have a history of dropping the ball and not following issues all the way through. Contactizer Pro has no manual or tutorials, and I haven't visited their forums for a long time.
Other options:
The free Chandler is only at version 1 and Now Software has not yet released Nighthawk, but these are potential alternatives. And let's not forget Entourage.
My recommendation is to visit sites like Versiontracker and Macupdate to read more user reviews, visit the developers' forums and see how they respond to user requests and/or bug reports, download a copy, try and compare these (and other) programs.
I used to recommend Daylite and Billings, but haven't done that for a long time now. Maybe their next version will be great. For now I don't use Daylite (or Billings) anymore.
19 of 20 found the following review helpful:
Product description is misleadingMay 07, 2009
By JMR
Only if you purchase "Daylite Mail Integration" does Daylite integrate with Apple Mail. This product DOES NOT integrate with Apple Mail as a stand alone. Daylite Productivity Suite ($189) does, but not Daylite 3 alone.
The product description is misleading as written. The fact that DMI is not advertised as a "frequently purchased together" option reinforces the deception (albeit unintended, I am sure).
BUYER BEWARE!
Let me add also, that while the promise of Daylite is great, and even more so, with the addition of an iphone extension, the setup and execution of this app across even a small LAN is extreme. EVERY desktop must be set up as a separate exercise and the extent of every setup can be hundreds of dollars. The learning curve is extraordinary. This product is anything but plug and play.
BUYER BEWARE!
11 of 11 found the following review helpful:
Great product - offering an integrated view of EVERYTHING.Dec 06, 2010
By Jacques Devaud
UPDATED JANUARY 2012
With OS X Lion and improved syncing capabilities, new versions of Daylite and switching to BusySync, I've resolved all the sync'ing issues mentioned below. Now, I can manage all my appointments, sales opportunities, projects and tasks in one package. A really lovely thing to use! There's nothing on the market that does it all like Daylite, at least for my life. I could have cobbled together individual parts and pieces, but it's so much nicer to have it all in one place.
PREVIOUS REVIEW FROM 2010
I bought Daylite a couple months ago, and have been exploring its functionality extensively. I manage dozen of projects and opportunities. I used to use ACT!, and was the system administrator, so I had lots of experience in setting up, troubleshooting and using a full-featured CRM. I also had a fair amount of experience with their technical support team, since I migrated data, and set up about 20 users with geographical territories and rules.
However, I use a Mac and prefer using Mac software. Daylite has a lot of great features and reporting functions. The degree of customization is great, allowing the user to customize almost every drop-down menu and category. It takes time but it's no harder than other software I've used. The interface is better than ACT!. Daylite Mail Integration is great! And I've had no issues with lost data although I struggled for some time with multitudes of duplicate contacts, before I disabled sync'ing.
Sync'ing with Address Book and iCal has been nothing short of a nightmare. I've spent at least 25-40 hours troubleshooting sync'ing, in spite of the fact that I spent $200 on a Premium Support Package for Daylite to get "Premium Help" for 3 months. While the techs are nice, the Premium Service has not been worth it in terms of providing solutions.
I gave up trying to sync contacts (I have about 3500) since the interface between Daylite and Sync Services (an Apple product) is seriously flawed. I have completely given up trying to sync contacts. Now, I import the contacts I need manually, which is not so hard but annoying to have to do it. Note that I easily sync 3500 contacts with Google Apps and my phone without issue using Spanning Sync, and so I know it can be done well. To get around not being able to sync, I now import new contacts using WhoPaste, a great program, into both Daylite and Address Book simultaneously.
I'm now struggling with iCal sync'ing, and so far it's no more functional than Address Book syncing! Reading through the tech support pages on the Marketcircle site, I find others that have my problems too, but it appears that many do not as well. Not sure what that means.
At this point, I still have hope for Daylite, and I want it to work. It promises great things and will be valuable when the company fixes the small number of fatal flaws.
14 of 15 found the following review helpful:
 Daylite software - "black hole".May 05, 2010
By Karen Cunningham
Daylite is a really complex, full featured, supposedly beautiful product.
Sadly, simply put, Daylite loses extensive amounts of data. I'd happily pay twice what they charge for their product if only it didn't lose the things that I value. Things like phone numbers and email addresses.
Today (May 4. 2010)I logged in and yet again the fields that were supposed to contain this valuable information literally said "No value" for 367 of my 1087 contacts. As someone running a small business I consider these fields extremely valuable, especially when paired with things like client name! I have been battling Marketcircle on this data loss issue for a long time!!!
Daylite does many things well like integrating customized letters to all of your clients. Sadly, it just doesn't do the critical things well, much of the time. Things like data integrity.
If Daylite had data integrity I'd probably give the product 4 to 4.5 stars. Alas, Data Integrity is a mandatory feature and my rating at this point is negligible.
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