Excuse the intrusion to this discussion; I just wanted to share with you a recent thread in our user forum that discusses this issue and how to solve it.

Check this out: http://www.commitcrm.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1039

Good Luck,

Sherry
CommitCRM Support Team

I get this error when changing page and the left hand side:

“Win32 Error. Code:87″

and i occasionally get access violation errors.

I have tried different servers. different clients, win7 vista and xp tried server 2003 but would like 2008 both have the same error.

Has anyone else come across this?

I am currently attempting to write my own management system and have been thinking about many ways I could work through it, and whilst I still want to be able to have my own front end (so it can be used with a keyboard only at the POS, no mouse), I may consider Commit for the backend, or at least get some influence of it.

That said, looking at it, for those without the time to write their own software and database, and need something powerful, it looks like a great piece of software.

I liked the application a lot and if you search the forums for CommitCRM you will find many other technicians who agree. Those guys were not paid to do a review and they still said similar things to what I did so my review didn’t change regardless of being paid or not.

Additionally, I did mention that I didn’t like the per-employee pricing so if this was marketing spiel or a press release I wouldn’t have said anything negative, but I did.

I get a few review requests a month and I turn down many of them because they don’t really target our market and I wont mention anything that I don’t think technicians would find useful/interesting. I have recently been asked to review a “universal document converter” and a “file hosting service which is targeted at end users”. If this was all about money then I would accept them, but its not. Ill only review things that I believe the Technibble audience would benefit from.

CommitCRM targets small-to-medium sized computer repair business and it hits our niche perfectly so I reviewed it because people do want to know about CRM’s for our business. I know this because the forums is filled with it (and again, CommitCRM gets recommended in those topics by other technicians).

I used the application, I liked it as did many non-paid-to-review-technicians, I didnt like the pricing and I wrote exactly that.

Based on the actual review I’d say that statement is highly doubtful. Perhaps not consciously, but certainly your zeal has been purchased in some way.

>>”While I was on the phone to one of their representatives I noticed something interesting. This person was very passionate about the product and really believes in what they are doing. I get marketing calls all the time but this one was different as it wasn’t marketing spiel or paid happiness, this was real.”

Wow, just wow.

I realize you started this site to inform us all and perhaps to make a buck or two but this is really disingenuous. I am now forced to re-read everything on this site with a more skeptical mindset.

When you do a “paid” review. You need to go the extra mile to NOT sound like you are being paid. This review has all the earmarks of enthusiastic paycheckiness.

This software could actually be the cats meow, so it’s pretty sad that you needed to be paid in order to review it. (or at the very least that you didn’t turn down the offer to be paid)

Thanks for the detailed review.