# Looking for contact management software...

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-contact-management-software/220044>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [December 19, 2003, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-contact-management-software/220044 "2003-12-19T20:29:06Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Rattlehead02](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rattlehead02/32/3944_2.png) [@Rattlehead02](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rattlehead02)\
**Post date:** [December 19, 2003, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-contact-management-software/220044/1 "2003-12-19T20:29:06Z")

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Sorry if this is the wrong forum for this, but it seemed factual to me.

I need contact management software that I can communicate with in Visual FoxPro 7. Actually, all I really need is access to the contact management software’s undelying tables.

Does anyone know of such software?

Also, in Quickbooks, is it possible to get into its underlying tables using Foxpro?

Thanks in advance for any help.

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**Author:** ![nth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/58956e/32.png) [@nth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nth)\
**Post date:** [December 20, 2003, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-contact-management-software/220044/2 "2003-12-20T00:03:40Z")

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GildedLily,

Can’t you access data through ODBC?

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**Author:** ![Rattlehead02](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rattlehead02/32/3944_2.png) [@Rattlehead02](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rattlehead02)\
**Post date:** [December 20, 2003, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-contact-management-software/220044/3 "2003-12-20T01:44:21Z")

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Yeah, I can use ODBC. But I’m not too familiar with Quickbooks or any contact management software, so I don’t know if they can be accessed via ODBC.

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**Author:** ![Mr.Sheepshead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ccd318/32.png) [@Mr.Sheepshead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Sheepshead)\
**Post date:** [December 20, 2003, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-contact-management-software/220044/4 "2003-12-20T14:41:07Z")

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ACT! actually uses the DBF format (at least it does in 4.0), so it would be a good fit for FP.