Phone and Fax dialing

[Steve Gutry]

Is there any chance of having the program able to dial a phone number or to send a fax?

[Max]

Hello,

so far no such plans.

[Brjlk]

Hello,

so far no such plans.

And now in 2012, is there any plan about this?
If not, what workaround is there to reading the contact's number from IPIM PC & dial manually?

John

[Max]

There were not sufficient number of requests for these features.
You can copy/paste contact's number.

[Brjlk]

There were not sufficient number of requests for these features.
You can copy/paste contact's number.

Thanks, I understand.
I suppose most people call from their mobile phones, instead of from a fixed phone.

John

[zarrarnyc]

If I may enlighten this topic. Dedicated CRMs such as SugarCRM, Salesforce, Goldmine some versions of Outlook as well as other software are capable to dialing the contact's phone number or sending a fax. For many reasons, there is a need to step away from cloud services, or from Outlook and the complexities and costs of Salesforce and SugarCRM. If EssentialPim were to have a dialing feature, which is not hard to implement since it links in to the PCs phone dialer, chances are that you would see a large migration from these other softwares. There is a void between high end CRM, and the low end PIM tools. If people had not requested this feature is because no one know that by requesting a feature it would materialize.

I assumed, that since EssentialPIM is an alternative to Outlook, it would by default have a dialing button. The reason for having a PIM or contact manager in the first place is because one needs to managage contacts which have outrgrown other organic means like pen and paper, phonebooks and the sort. If you are using a contact manager, or PIM, then a dialer is essential.

I have downloaded Essential PIM in hopes of having a dialer and it does not. I don't want to use Outlook, or any other cloud based services. The need for a desktop manager with mobile device syn is important. Having a dialer no matter if it is a mobile phone, or desktop VOIP setup is important. There are times when you need to use a headset on a VOIP instead of a mobile phones. The need is there, and you should implement this feature. I am ready to buy if you have this feature.

[Max]

Than you for you opinion, we will consider it.

[Brjlk]

Than you for you opinion, we will consider it.

Thanks, this is a feature I also find useful & had requested

John

[catsaccounting]

A LOT of us would like the dialer / fax feature but just don't say anything because we are already using Windows Fax and Scan or something and used to entering the contact info in yet ANOTHER location - - sure would be nice if EssentialPIM had this feature, though . . .