AFFP: ACT! for Financial Professionals.

SLM, Inc. is pleased to offer ACT! for Financial Professionals (AFFP); a highly customized version Sage Software’s best selling ACT! contact management system.

Developed exclusively for Financial Advisors and their teams, AFFP is currently in use by over 15,000 users and is deployed in numerous firms across the country.

AFFP includes many new features, such as campaign management, call rotation, missing data notification, house holding, automatic data backups, dynamic field labels, an external audit system and automatic age calculation.  AFFP can also be customized for your firm and linked with other systems/databases.

Designed specifically for financial services professionals, ACT! for Financial Professionals by Sage is a comprehensive contact and compliance management solution that equips you and your team with the tools you need to enhance client retention and growth. ACT! for Financial Professionals enables you to organize prospect and client data and associated financial information, maintain frequent and relevant interaction with contacts, and stay on top of activities to keep pace with your demanding schedule. With ACT! you’ll benefit from increased productivity so you’ll have time to focus on what’s most important – acceleration of prospect closings and up-sell to existing clients.

The system was developed in cooperation with several senior consultants from multiple financial disciplines and is designed to help FAs and their teams to:

Key Benefits

Feature Summary

Primary Address – Ensure you have the most up-to-date product features with automatic upgrades

Age Calculation – Quickly identify the age of a contact without having to do the math. Wherever a Birthday field is displayed the age automatically calculates anytime you access the Contact Record, including the spouse and family members.

Audit (Compliance) System – Track any and all field changes to each Contact Record by user with the Audit System. The Audit System monitors any field changes that occur in the database and records it in a separate database file.

Contact Recorder Bookmark – bookmark the contacts you want to revisit in the future. If you are interrupted as you are updating a contact record, bookmark it so you can remember to come back to it when time allows.

Missing Info Notification: Easily track and update any missing information you have for each contact. It pulls the relevant blank fields from the Contact Record for a quick view of fields that require data. Fill in these fields and the Contact Record is automatically updated with this new information.

Category and Tier Fields: Segment clients and prospects to understand the level of attention you need to provide, perform marketing or mail campaigns, and understand the type of investment and financial advice you offer.

Dynamic Labels: Utilize Dynamic Labels to adapt field names for more accurate prospect and client data. This allows each user to track information that is most important to them and their clients and label it accordingly.

Custom Tabs:

Addresses: Keep up to four addresses on hand for each contact. Each address has a dynamic label so you can indicate the type of address, including work, home, vacation home, etc. Using the primary button you can easily promote the address you want to serve as the primary. 

Family: Track information about a contact's spouse and family members, including names and relationships, birthdays, ages, SSNs, and phone.

Householding: Store information regarding other accounts within the same household and easily navigate between contacts with the two-way link provided for each contact listed.

Personal Info: Keep personal information about each contact, including birthday, salutations for mail and e-mail merges, SSN, referred by, and anniversary fields. Even track up to 10 additional user defined fields, each with dynamic labels, allowing you to customize the field name.

Accounts: Maintain an accurate summary of account information for accounts held at your company, including account type, number, description, and manager information.

Advisor: Track information about a contact’s professional advisors, such as tax preparer, attorney, accountant, and more.

Financials: Keep account of any contact’s financial information for holdings not associated with your company.

Estate Planning: Track will and trust information and up to five contacts for trust.

College Planning: Keep record of college planning information for dependents and others, including name, school of choice, freshman year, tuition, expected years, current funds, and date updated.

Retirement Planning: Track comprehensive information on all retirement accounts such as 401Ks, including account name, type of plan, owner name, % deferral, and more. 

Grants: Keep details of stock and option grants held and exercised by the contact.

Profile: Track information about a client's long-term retirement goals and objectives, investment priorities, risk profile, and more.
Traders: Keeps record of the names of people authorized to trade on behalf of the client.

Gifts: Track all gifts given to or received from contacts, making it easier to stay up to date on your client touch points and report on all gifts as required at the end of the year.

Keywords: Understand your clients and prospects better by tracking keywords of things that are important to them such as hobbies, likes, etc. such as wine collector, Philadelphia Eagles fan, and vegetarian. (NOTE: This feature is not the same as Keyword search. It’s simply a field or location to track these terms.

Important Notes Field: Save critical information you need to remember about a client right on the main Contact Detail view in the Important Notes field. For example, if the client recently had a baby and you want to be sure to mention it on your next call, keep this information in the Important Notes field so it is in full view.

Choosing a version of AFFP

In addition to ACT! for Financial Professionals, we offer ACT! by Sage
Premium for Financial Professionals. ACT! for Financial Professionals is ideal for individual financial advisors, small teams of up to 10 networked users4, or large disparate workforces that don’t require data sharing or advanced security.

ACT! Premium for Financial Professionals meets the needs of larger workgroups and teams of financial advisors5. In addition, it offers functionality such as centralized administration, advanced security features at the user and contact level, and automatic database synchronization, backup, and maintenance which facilitates
administration and support for corporate administrators or IT.

Support and Training Plans

Comprehensive technical support and training is available ad hoc or through an annual agreement for licensed AFFP users (all versions). 

Additional Information

For more information, references, or to discuss pricing and availability, please contact us at:

Phone:     (631) 393-0153
Toll-free:  (866) 756-5323