EasyDirector®
Simplifying the way you manage your business...
Training & Support
  • AITechConsulting LLC guarantees 24 hours a day, seven days a week for email and web-based support for EasyDirector®. You can talk to our associates between the hours of 9:00 a.m. through 5 p.m. eastern standard time from Monday through Friday.

  • AITechConsulting LLC client care team takes a proactive approach in reacting to evolving business demands with the speed, flexibility, and scale of your experience as a client throughout your entire relationship with us.

  • AITechConsulting LLC provides a day training on EasyDirector® at a designated location depending on the number of requests from our Customers. Once we have the right number of people, we will contact all the requested customer with date and time, location and the associated cost for the training. Contact us for your EasyDirector® training needs.
Are you interested in free EasyDirector® training?

Please email us the following details at [customerserv at easydirector dot biz] :

  1. Your Name.
  2. Business Name and Type of business.
  3. Contact Address, Phone Number and Email Address.

Training location, date and time will be announced 3weeks before the training to all interested parties.

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) for EasyDirector®
Questions
Answers
Are you on Windows 7 or Vista?

Due to the new security and permission level introduced by Microsoft in these operating systems, you may need to modify your permission and ownership level for the directory containing your EasyDirector® installation. The latest installation will install EasyDirector® in your user application directory by default where your permission and ownership level should by default contain modify, read & execute and write.

Symptoms
:
1. Access Denied reported on the command prompt when EasyDirector® was launched.
2. Problem loading EasyDirector® page is displayed.
3. Unable to connect is displayed on the web browser.

Solution 1
:
1. Uninstall your current installation of EasyDirector®.
2. Download and install the latest version of EasyDirector®.

Solution 2:
1. Follow the instructions on this document to change your permission level for the Directory containing EasyDirector® installation. Change Permission Document

Do I need additional software and hardware to run EasyDirector®?
No. Once you have Microsoft® Interner Explorer, Netscape or Firefox installed on your computer you are good to go.
Do I need to undertake any manual installation for EasyDirector®?
  1. No for windows platform. EasyDirector® comes as a setup file. Double click on the setup file and follow the instructions on the setup screen.

  2. For web-based platform, you will need to untar the tar file to your location and run the started.sh to begin the use of EasyDirector®.
Why do you have a lifetime guarantee on your products?
We are so confident about all editions of EasyDirector®. You have a free lifetime guarantee and upgrade to the latest edition because we only maintain a single, backward compatible and enhanced edition. We shall continue to provide upgrade setup file or script for our existing customer.
Why the annual subscription?

We provide you with a license that last only for a year from the date of purchase:

  1. This makes the software affordable to small and medium size businesses that are going through the transition of implementing Contact Relationship Management (CRM) software for managing their businesses.
  2. This ensures that all our customers have access to the latest version of EasyDirector® at any point in time.
  3. We only maintain a single version of EasyDirector® at a point in time. This is continuously upgraded and made available to all our customers.
Why is EasyDirector® displaying only Master Contact when I clicked on other contacts? Our apology. This is a bug in the last CD release. Please follow the next step to update your software.
How do I install the latest version and not loose my data?
  1. Download the latest EasyDirector® from this page or home page.
  2. Start your EasyDirector® software and Login.
  3. Scroll to the bottom of the page and click Administration.
  4. Click Export or Import EasyDirector® Data link.
  5. Click on the Export Data button. This will create a backup file.
  6. Save the backup file in safe place.
  7. Shutdown your EasyDirector®.
  8. Uninstall EasyDirector® software. For Windows users, the uninstall link is under Programs, EasyDirector® link.
  9. Double click on the exe to install EasyDirector®, or extract the tar file into the EasyDirector® directory.
  10. Follow steps 2, 3, 4 and the instruction on the export page to import your exported data.
  11. Shutdown EasyDirector® and restart it to begin the use of the latest version of EasyDirector®.
Do you need to migrate your contacts from spreadsheet or other systems?
We offer data migration services onsite or remotely. Contact us at customerserv @ easydirector . biz for more information.
Do you want to import your contacts from Goggle (gmail) and Outlook into EasyDirector®?
  1. Click on the help link of EasyDirector® for details on how to import contacts from a spreadsheet into EasyDirector®.
  2. Export your contacts from Outlook or Goggle gmail into a spreadsheet. The output format from outlook and gmail is a CSV format.
  3. Open this file with excel and copy the respective columns into the columns provided in EasyDirector® template.
  4. Upload your contacts into EasyDirector® as directed in the Help document provided with EasyDirector® install.
Download &Release Note for EasyDirector®
This section shows the download for EasyDirector® software and any supporting script if any to upgrade your EasyDirector® to the latest version. The upgrade script or setup file must be applied sequentially as listed below. Please do not hesitate to contact us for further assistance. EasyDirector® software is platform independent. Fully tested on Windows, Linux and UNIX Platforms.
Release Name Date Additional Feature Description
Current release of EasyDirector® 1.0
September 2010
Executable for Windows platform.
Current release of EasyDirector® 1.0

September 2010

Tar of compressed files for Linux & UNIX platforms.
EasyDirector® User Manual September 2010
This is the user manual that comes with EasyDirector® software. Read this manual to see how EasyDirector® can really help your business relationship management. For step by step walkthrough into EasyDirector® process and technology visit amazon.com and barnesandnoble.com for the published book on EasyDirector® and automating your Contact Relationship Management.
Bug fixes to date
Our team is continuously testing EasyDirector® and fixing all bugs reported by our users. Please visit this page frequently for the latest update fixes to EasyDirector® software. Please contact techsupport@aitechconsulting.com for any technical issue. Here is the list of the bugs that have been fixed to date:
Release Date Bugs & Additional Feature Description Fixes
June 2010
  1. Description text field on forms are too small.
  2. Auto-fill of Contact Person details on Add contact and Setup Your Profile forms.
  3. Import Contacts, Products and Document from spreadsheet into EasyDirector® displaying error message.
  4. Opportunity page is displaying %28 & %28 for brackets.
  5. Opportunity page not returning search result.
  6. When clicked on contact details, only the master contact is displayed.
  7. Change Admin user password defaults user to read-only. For this problem, Uninstall your EasyDirector® and reinstall the latest update.
  8. Document import and attachment of documents to contacts to support latest Microsoft documents. All types of extensions are now supported.
  9. Export of EasyDirector® data for safe keeping on user's desired external drive or USB and import to another installed EasyDirector®.
  10. Search contacts by Type.
July 2010
  1. Default installation for EasyDirector® has now been set to the user application directory to avoid the ownership and permission (access denied) issue reported by our users.
  2. New links have been created under the EasyDirector® Program links for the load contacts, products and documents spreadsheet. Use this template for loading multiple contacts, products or documents.
  3. To minimize typing effort, click on preload the parent Contact details on Add a new Contact page when creating a contact as a subordinate contact.
  4. Field should not be empty dialog prevents user from continuing data entry. This bug has been fixed on all pages.
  5. When copy & paste data into description fields only the first line is displayed. This bug has been fixed for all pages containing description fields. This pages includes note history, product details, contact details, schedule, and document and opportunity pages.
  6. For administrative users, systems log has been made available through the administration page.
  7. For administrative users, mail server details can now be easily entered through the administration page.
  8. Add Contact not responding to Save button when clicked.
August 2010
  1. Improved sales automation process. Sales Quotes and Purchase orders can now be created from Order Manager page through order checklist. Orders and Quotes can be approved, rejected, printed, canceled, converted to invoice or emailed to prospective vendor or customer.
  2. Reports can be generated for purchase orders, sales quotes or invoices of specified dates and search criteria.
  3. Default parent ID during edit contact has now been fixed. None will be selected by default, unless you select a parent for the contact.
  4. A message will now be displayed when configuration changes is saved successfully from the Administrative page.
  5. Vendor is added by default to list of Contact Relationship type.
  6. Add Contact has been expanded to accommodate lengthy address.
  7. Fixed "Saved Only" button for the creation of sales quotes or order checklist.
  8. Refreshes automatically when you add or edit contact, product or services, order, invoices and schedule.
  9. Add more stages for lead tracking.
  10. Now accepts png for logos when adding or editing contacts.
  11. Increase logo size for your business as added to the top of every page.
  12. Rearrange the logos and mission statement shown at the top of every page.
  13. Fixed contact person error of only displaying the master contact person for every contact.
  14. Stable version of EasyDirector®. You can execute all major business functions.
  15. Communicate with your contacts & customers using Send Email in EasyDirector® has been fixed. (August 30, 2010).
  16. Schedule Manager supports reoccurring events. Events lasting for more than one day appear everyday until the end of the event.
September 2010
  1. Supports data exported from EasyDirector® of earlier versions. Create purchase orders, sales quotes and invoices.
  2. Retested and uploaded with fixes relating to invoicing and home page. - September 3, 2010
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