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Client Tracks
Type of Program: PIM
Supported Platforms: Windows 95, 486-8 class PC or better.
Company Name: Integra Software
Version: 2.2
Price: $90.00
Installed Size: a little more than 4 megs
Most information/contact/project management
programs try to service everybody, with ill-fitting results. What
if you need more? Or less? A contact manager may manage more
client names than you’ll ever need, but not store,
categorize, or cross-reference miscellaneous information very
well. A project manager may track innumerable small details, but
not from different clients. A freeform information manager might
handle projects, clients, and information, but require time and
skill to configure properly. Overkill in some ways, inadequate in
others.
It’s refreshing, then, that Integra
Software has introduced Client Tracks, focused on that specific
subset of the workforce (freelance writers and programmers,
lawyers, etc.) that does contract work for multiple clients. The
main screen of Client Tracks is a simple calendar for scheduling
"events," each of which can link to a defined client
project. Once you’ve entered a project’s overall
description, you can design a task-planning template for it. Also
on the main screen is a stopwatch (for timing events), notepad,
phone book, phone dialer, and a utility that will calculate the
number of days between any two dates.
Too bad there is no way to track hourly charges
or log phone calls, though. That seems like a natural feature and
Client Tracks already has a stopwatch - why didn’t they just
link it directly to a couple fields on the project form?
Additionally, the online Help is wordy, ill-designed, vague, and
occasionally misleading. You would think from the online Help,
for example, that Client Tracks does some of the aforementioned
calculations, but I couldn’t figure out how or where. (It
even ships with the necessary bill formatting files - apparently
unused.) It would still be worth buying if it was inexpensive,
but prepare to be sticker-shocked by the registration price;
ninety bucks (!!) is three or four times what a little program
like this should cost, however handy and focused. Too bad. I
wanted to recommend this.
Performance: 
User Friendliness: 
Cost: no stars
Ease of Installation:
Support: unknown
Reviewed by Gail B.C. Marsella
How to Purchase:
Integra Computing
910 Cobb Place Manor Drive
Marietta, GA 30066
U.S.A.
Phone: 770-426-5735
AmOnLine: integracmp
Internet: http://members.aol.com/integracmp
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