CAPTURE is freeware. That's right, NO COST to you ever. No limitations. You can donate if you want, but that's certainly not required.

THE DESIGN PHILOSOPHY OF CAPTURE:
Often, a simple application solution is quite good enough, rather than an application with many features and options. CAPTURE was designed to be extremely easy to deploy, manage and use, and so should require minimal or no training since only assumes regular Lotus Notes usage skills. We think that CAPTURE is functional enough to be useful in many situations, while not being overly complex or difficult to master and use effectively.

CAPTURE is a simple "customer relationship management" (CRM) database application. In its design we have tried to deliberately avoid the more intricate aspects of CRM, with the aim of CAPTURE being suitable for a range of organizations and industries (as well as being easier to learn and use). Various other vendors offer a range of full-featured Notes/Domino CRM applications if that's what you need, but they tend to be rather complex to learn, deploy and use -- not to mention somewhat on the expensive side!

You could well find that CAPTURE has enough features to be quite adequate for your CRM needs. If not, then at the very least you will find CAPTURE to be a good (and extremely well-priced) introduction to CRM applications for IBM Lotus Notes/Domino, and a launching point for you to investigate the various heavyweight CRM suites on offer from other vendors.

If you want a straightforward, easy-to-use solution and don't need the many functions of those other CRM solutions, CAPTURE may be just right for you. And CAPTURE will be very easy on your budget, since it's provided free!


WHAT CAN YOU DO WITH CAPTURE?
Use this application to track activity with your customers, and the resources allocated to the customers. The term "customers" covers organizations which have already purchased your products or services, prospects (who might purchase them), plus your suppliers and business partners who provide you with products or services or who market and support them. While this terminology tends to be that of a typical manufacturing, distribution or services company, CAPTURE is useful for all sorts of organizations. Other terms that you might use instead of "customers" are "clients", "members", "associates" and the like.

WHO WILL USE CAPTURE?
Anyone using IBM Lotus Notes and Domino, from the smallest organization or group upwards, could use CAPTURE,

You can use CAPTURE if you want to store and share information about customers (or "clients" or "prospects" or "partners" or "suppliers" or "distributors" or "members" or "affiliates", and so on). You can easily configure CAPTURE to use terminology appropriate to your organization's environment. For example, you can specify your organization's name ("company" name) and preferred terminology such as "Account Executive" rather than "Sales Representative", "Advertising Campaign" rather than "Project", a list of currencies to select from for financial values, and the like. This brings a considerable degree of flexibility and adaptability to the ways that you can use CAPTURE.

The obvious use is by sales/marketing teams. but CAPTURE could be used by all sorts of groups: hardware or software product support, Help Desk, legal department, credit section, senior management, manufacturing and so on. And thinking more broadly, because it's free CAPTURE should also be of interest to clubs and societies, non-profit groups, etc -- even to single individuals -- anywhere that relationships and activities need to be recorded and tracked for personal or group purposes.


WHAT IS THE THE "URE" IN CAPTURE? -- USAGE REPORTING EXTENSIONS:
Gather and analyze comprehensive document usage metrics ...
CAPTURE includes an implementation of our NotesTracker^TM technology for the tracking and reporting of document usage. When you activate usage tracking for a CAPTURE database, you'll be able to see who Creates documents, Deletes documents, Reads documents and Updates which fields in them (you'll see the field contents before and after each change). More information about NotesTracker (including terms of use and pricing) may be found by clicking the following button:

Currently (as of 12 April 2007) CAPTURE Version 2.1 incorporates NotesTracker Version 5.0 capabilities.

NotesTracker voice-annotated animations

WHAT IS PROVIDED IN THE DOWNLOAD:
The CAPTURE database is provided, fully functional and with no restrictions as to how you use it, but with its design hidden to protect our intellectual property (particularly in the NotesTracker technology).

REQUESTING ENHANCEMENTS TO CAPTURE:
We plan to make some enhancements to the CAPTURE freeware, and will consider adding small features that you might suggest. Some enhancements that were made in Version 1.1,arose from excellent suggestions from a user in Buenos Aires. The key determinant is that any such requests must be of a generally-applicable nature. We want to avoid falling into the trap of creeping featurism. Therefore any new features must comply with our overall concept that the freeware version of CAPTURE must remain a simple and easy-to-use application. (Also, the requests must not put a burden on our limited development resources. Remember that after all CAPTURE is freeware, and we'll need to be very selective about which of your requests to implement as freeware!)
 

CUSTOM-TAILORED FORMS OF CAPTURE:
If you are interested in using CAPTURE but need significant modifications to meet your requirements, we certainly will consider performing the modifications for you -- at reasonable rates for our professional services. We will license the resulting product to you (with unhidden design) for your exclusive use. The one proviso is that since CAPTURE has built-in NotesTracker code we'll expect you to purchase the appropriate level NotesTracker license. (See a few paragraphs above for more about NotesTracker.) And even if you don't need any major functional changes you still might wish to purchase a CAPTURE license so that you can make minor changes such as in forms appearance or layout, or to globalize it (translate it from English into one or more other languages).