Any good alternatives to LogMeIn Rescue?

I just got a call from TeamViewer Sales (they called within 15 min. of my email being sent). I asked if TV had an invoicing feature. I thought I'd share the response for future reference as I didn't know TV had this functionality:

The TeamViewer Manager is a useful tool for organizing your contacts, for billing your customers and for logging your sessions, which is included in the Premium and Corporate license.

All of your connection partners will appear in the database and can be arranged according to your needs in a tree structure with folders and subfolders. Aside from a name you can add further useful information to a contact.

TeamViewer Manager keeps track of the connection times and can calculate the support cost based on an individual hourly rate. This data can either be printed directly and attached to your invoice or exported in a .csv file and used e.g. in Excel. This way TeamViewer Manager becomes a clear and reliable source of information for your accounting.

TeamViewer Manager provides you with two options for a session logging:
1) Recording sessions: TeamViewer records the whole session as a video clip. The clips are assigned to the respective support session and can be viewed and replayed in TeamViewer Manager.
2) Session protocols: The supporter enters which changes he has made on the customer's computer manually in the notes filed of the session.

TeamViewer Manager can either be used with a local SQLite database or a shared SQL database on a Microsoft SQL Server.

Please feel free to download and try TeamViewer Manager from http://www.teamviewer.com/download/TeamViewer_Manager_Setup.exe

New in version 6.x:

- When you create your individual Custom QuickSupport, enter your partner list data. As soon as your customer starts QuickSupport, it appears in your partner list, and you can reach it directly with a single click – without having to exchange an ID and password via telephone or e-mail. You also have the option of exchanging chat messages via QuickSupport and before establishing your TeamViewer connection, even if your customer does not have a partner list account. You may show an individual disclaimer before the client can start the module actually.

The disclaimer he mentions could be something to the effect that by submitting to this remote support session, you agree to be bound by the T&C listed including the subsequent charges.

This looks promising. I'll check this out this week and post some feedback.
 
Great tool.. have been using it for over a year now. Love it love it love it :)

Has anyone used gotomypc. Is it good, fast and reliable?

I prefer LMIR than teamviewer. I think it's a lot faster and I've been using Ultra VNC for remote support (which works pretty much as teamviewer).

I'm confused, what remote software do you use? or are you just trying to up your post count :)
 
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Are there any free/cheap alternatives to LogMeIn Rescue?

I don't think there is a free alternative to LogMeIn Rescue - we are talking about remote support tools for commercial purposes, right? So, for small businesses, I would recommend the following tools - both are cheaper than LogMeIn Rescue:
  • Techinline - 4 times less expensive than LogMeIn Rescue: Techinline's yearly subscription costs $300, and they also have Pay Per Session pricing plans like $20 for 5 sessions.
  • TeamViewer: one-time fee but beware of hidden costs when it comes to upgrades.
 
What about Win7`s built in remote accesser?

...I was not quite following what the guy in South America actually did or how...but he seemed to have complete control.He wasw too fast for me and I was too dazzled to understand but I know it is p[ossible...just don`t knpo0w how....
 
I've used showmypc.com and it is pretty simple at a cost of only $5 a month and I believe there is some type of discount paying a year in advance.
 
They aren't hidden as such. You get free upgrades for the same version number e.g. 6.x but have to pay an upgrade fee when a brand new version e.g.7.x comes out if you choose to upgrade to it. You can carry on using the version you bought for life though.

Yes that's fair enough. I bought it for the features it has now not the future.
 
I just got a call from TeamViewer Sales (they called within 15 min. of my email being sent). I asked if TV had an invoicing feature. I thought I'd share the response for future reference as I didn't know TV had this functionality:



The disclaimer he mentions could be something to the effect that by submitting to this remote support session, you agree to be bound by the T&C listed including the subsequent charges.

This looks promising. I'll check this out this week and post some feedback.

That's ok but it's only with the TV Manager version whichs cost double the business one. As a sole trader I'd like the invoice bit but I'm not paying that much for it!

I want TV, still think it's expensive but waiting for response from sales over payment spread , I liked it when I used for trial.

Remote software getting more expensive but is the obvious way to go forward

To OP - I'd try as many trials as you can and decide which suits your business model best


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