Can Now Up-to-Date & Contact help you?

Literally thousands of businesses, organizations, schools, and families use Now Up-to-Date & Contact. Click here to see a selection of thousands of school calendars online.

There’s a whole spectrum of calendar and contact software available. There is lots of “free” stuff – they are fine for simple, single calendars and address books. If this describes your needs, click here for some options.

There are some “industrial strength” solutions – enterprise hardware and software packages with high prices and significant support and ongoing maintenance requirements. These are typically used by large businesses and organizations of over 1,000 users with dedicated support staff.

But what about small to medium businesses, organizations, SOHO (Small Office Home Office), and families? They also need meeting scheduling, shared calendars, group contact lists, advanced printing, mail merge capabilities, and more. They don’t have dedicated technical staff to set up and maintain dedicated (and expensive) servers. They need something that works, that’s easy to use, and covers both their Windows PCs and Macs. Something that’s inexpensive to buy and virtually runs itself. That’s Now Up-to-Date & Contact.

Is this you?
Now Up-to-date & Contact is one of the most flexible calendar and contact solutions available. Check out this list of scenarios and see if one matches the way you want to work. Each of these represents real businesses that use Now Up-to-Date & Contact. See our list of customer stories click here.

Manager – Assistant
I’m a busy person. My assistant manages your calendar, but I need to see it to know what I’m doing next. Maybe from my office. Or across the country. Can Now do that?

Easily. Simply run Now Up-to-Date & Contact on your assistant’s computer and on yours. Your assistant installs the Now Server Manager then creates a category for your calendar. Not only can you both see it, but you can make changes and receive updates, automatically.

Manager – Field Team
I have a team of reps or consultants in the field. I need to know what everyone is doing all the time. Can Now do that?

Yes. You can view just your calendar, or any combination of your teams' calendars with the push of a button. And you can use the new Schedule View to see all of their schedules at once, even schedule meetings right from one screen.

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Sales Team
I manage a sales team. Can Now help me monitor their sales activities and see detailed information on prospect and customer interactions?

You bet. Now Up-to-Date & Contact is ideal for sales teams. Your individual sales reps can manage their own calendar. They schedule calls, appointments, and to-dos, each linked to a contact record. That contact record then contains a listing of every time someone in your organization called, mailed, emailed, or met with this person. Wouldn’t that be valuable?

Remote Offices
We have offices around the country and some people that work from home offices. I often need to schedule phone conferences and coordinate schedules. Can Now do that?

Piece of cake. All you need is for each of your employees, wherever they are, to have their own copy of Now Up-to-Date & Contact and access to the internet. You’ll run the Now Server Manager at one of your locations and all of your people will be completely “up-to-date” whenever they’re online. And since it happens automatically, even the most technically challenged of your staff will be current and complete.

Volunteer Organization
I have a group of volunteers that need coordination of their activities. Some have Macs, but most have PCs. Can Now help me.

Without a doubt. Now Up-to-Date & Contact is completely cross platform. Both your Mac and Windows PC users have all the same core functionality. You can be all Windows, or all Mac, or any combination of both.

Medical/Dental Office
We schedule patients in for office visits. Can Now let me schedule them easily and see every appointment a patient has had in the past?

Certainly. When you schedule an appointment, simply click on the “Find Contact” icon, type in a few letters of the patient’s name, and you’ll instantly get a list of contacts to select from – click on the correct one and that patient is scheduled! Now open that patient’s contact record and you’ll see every appointment they have – both past and future.

Legal Office
We need to keep complex schedules for our attorneys, including long lists of to-do items for specific client work. Can Now do that?

Absolutely. Simply create a category for each client or project. Then you can create any number of calendar events, meetings, appointments, calls, and to-dos for that category. You can then display your calendar in “list view” and organize your display the way you need. It makes scheduling and managing simple.

Creative Agency
We have lots of clients with very tough projects and deadlines. And I have to manage our teams of designers, artists, and production schedules. How can Now help me?

Just like we’ve helped literally hundreds of other creative, ad, and marketing firms. You can manage customers and projects by category, then use our terrific “Sets” feature to build viewable calendars with any combination of categories – you can see client work for a specific designer or maybe for all designers. You can have a set to view production schedules. You can even have a set that can display all of a client’s activities – one that you can print and share with the client or even publish as a web calendar.

There are lots more types of businesses, organizations, and groups. Contact us and we’ll show you how Now Up-to-Date & Contact can work for you.