It’s a curious shortcoming, and one that may make it a deal killer for those simply looking for a good, basic CRM tool.

Sharing - Bus圜ontacts allows you to share address books with read-only or read/write privileges through Exchange, Fruux, LAN, and other CardDAV servers.While Bus圜ontacts is great at using OS X’s existing apps for most of this integration, there’s one small and somewhat annoying caveat when it comes to calendar info: If you want to pull your upcoming schedule into the application you’re going to have to commit to using BusyMac’sīus圜al calendar app-Bus圜ontacts offers no direct integration with Apple’s Calendar app or any third-party calendar applications.

Syncing - Bus圜ontacts syncs with the built-in Contacts app on OS X and iOS through all leading cloud services including iCloud, Google, Exchange, and other CardDAV servers.

Social network integration - Bus圜ontacts syncs with Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn, combining contact information from each of these sources into a unified contact view.

Activity List - The Activity List displays activities associated with the selected contact including calendar events, emails, messages, and recent social network posts.Bus圜al integration - Bus圜ontacts integrates with Bus圜al by linking contacts to events in your calendar, providing flexible CRM capabilities for tracking past and future activities.Smart Filters - Smart Filters are a powerful tool for filtering contacts, creating saved searches, and even applying custom view settings in the List View.Tags - Tags can be used for grouping, filtering and coloring contacts.

Customizable Views - View contacts in a single-column Card View or multi-column List View.

We'll let BusyMac founder John Chaffee tell you all about what's in the new Bus圜ontacts:

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