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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Agiline CRM

    Score8.1 out of 10
    N/AAgiline CRM is a customer relationship management (CRM) software. It is built around features like sales automation, marketing automation, customer service / help desk, and contact management.N/A

    BQE CORE

    Score8.8 out of 10
    Small Businesses (1-50 employees)
    BQE CORE is a business management solution built specifically for professional service firms. BQE CORE is a combination of a billing assistant, project management, and accounting solution. CORE is designed to do the hard work of delivering actionable insights directly to the user's dashboards or inbox. BQE CORE replaces the products Engineeroffice, Archioffice, and BillQuick; the functionality of these applications is now found in BQE CORE.N/A
    Pricing
    Agiline CRMBQE CORE
    Editions & Modules
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    Pricing Offerings
    Agiline CRMBQE CORE
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    Agiline CRMBQE CORE
    Considered Both Products
    Agiline LLC
    No answer on this topic
    BQE Software Inc.
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    94%
    Would buy again
    144 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
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    98%
    Delivers good value for the price
    106 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
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    98%
    Happy with the feature set
    150 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    92%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    70 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    No answers on this topic
    82%
    Implementation went as expected
    81 Answers
    Features
    Agiline CRMBQE CORE
    Sales Force Automation
    Comparison of Sales Force Automation features of Agiline CRM and BQE CORE
    Feature
    Agiline CRM
    9.2
    1 Ratings
    16% above category average
    BQE CORE
    -
    Ratings
    Customer data management / contact management9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Workflow management9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Territory management10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Opportunity management9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Integration with email client (e.g., Outlook or Gmail)9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Contract management9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Quote & order management10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Interaction tracking9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Channel / partner relationship management9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Customer Service & Support
    Comparison of Customer Service & Support features of Agiline CRM and BQE CORE
    Feature
    Agiline CRM
    9.3
    1 Ratings
    19% above category average
    BQE CORE
    -
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    Case management10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Call center management9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Help desk management9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Marketing Automation
    Comparison of Marketing Automation features of Agiline CRM and BQE CORE
    Feature
    Agiline CRM
    9.5
    1 Ratings
    21% above category average
    BQE CORE
    -
    Ratings
    Lead management10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Email marketing9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    CRM Project Management
    Comparison of CRM Project Management features of Agiline CRM and BQE CORE
    Feature
    Agiline CRM
    9.3
    1 Ratings
    19% above category average
    BQE CORE
    -
    Ratings
    Task management9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Billing and invoicing management10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Reporting9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    CRM Reporting & Analytics
    Comparison of CRM Reporting & Analytics features of Agiline CRM and BQE CORE
    Feature
    Agiline CRM
    9.0
    1 Ratings
    16% above category average
    BQE CORE
    -
    Ratings
    Forecasting9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Pipeline visualization9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Customizable reports9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Customization
    Comparison of Customization features of Agiline CRM and BQE CORE
    Feature
    Agiline CRM
    8.5
    1 Ratings
    11% above category average
    BQE CORE
    -
    Ratings
    Custom fields9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Custom objects8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Scripting environment8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    API for custom integration9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Security
    Comparison of Security features of Agiline CRM and BQE CORE
    Feature
    Agiline CRM
    9.0
    1 Ratings
    7% above category average
    BQE CORE
    -
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    Single sign-on capability9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Role-based user permissions9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Social CRM
    Comparison of Social CRM features of Agiline CRM and BQE CORE
    Feature
    Agiline CRM
    9.5
    1 Ratings
    23% above category average
    BQE CORE
    -
    Ratings
    Social data10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Social engagement9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Integrations with 3rd-party Software
    Comparison of Integrations with 3rd-party Software features of Agiline CRM and BQE CORE
    Feature
    Agiline CRM
    9.5
    1 Ratings
    23% above category average
    BQE CORE
    -
    Ratings
    Marketing automation9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Compensation management10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Platform
    Comparison of Platform features of Agiline CRM and BQE CORE
    Feature
    Agiline CRM
    9.0
    1 Ratings
    17% above category average
    BQE CORE
    -
    Ratings
    Mobile access9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
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    Score9.7 out of 10
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    Score8.2 out of 10
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    Score8.9 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Agiline CRMBQE CORE
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.4
    (167 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.0
    (8 ratings)
    Usability
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.6
    (117 ratings)
    Availability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    7.4
    (90 ratings)
    Online Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    6.4
    (1 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    2.3
    (6 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    -
    (0 ratings)
    4.5
    (1 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Agiline CRMBQE CORE
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Agiline LLC
    Agiline CRM is a tool one must have installed in their company in order to manage and strengthen the bond with their clients. How cool is that to use a tool which is user-friendly and is helping you in almost everything. Its contact management feature is amazing along with the marketing automation feature. Agiline CRM is a tool that has made Customer relation management quite handy.
    Incentivized
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    BQE Software Inc.
    I would recommend this for our industry: architecture, engineering, or construction. I would recommend this for any larger firm with many employees or high number of projects. I would particularly recommend this for a company with projects that have budget constraints and where time tracking and expense tracking is very important. I would not recommend this complicated software for a small firm with a small amount of income or number of projects.
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    Pros
    Agiline LLC
    • Its marketing automation feature is fast and dynamic.
    • It has the capacity to hold many contacts intact and manages them amazingly.
    • Its interface is easy and not complex for beginners.
    Incentivized
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    BQE Software Inc.
    • Invoice Collections within Billing is a great tool because of the ability to take notes and track contact.
    • Invoices are professional looking and easy for our clients to understand the overall progress within each phase of their project.
    • Dashboards are the best tool EVER!
    • The Contact List feature within Clients setup is the perfect way to track multiple project managers within a large company that also has multiple contracts with us.
    Incentivized
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    Cons
    Agiline LLC
    • I have found its import of contacts quite complex.
    • It doesn’t work well with some of the browsers.
    Incentivized
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    BQE Software Inc.
    • Customizable Reporting
    • Linking Project to Payment all together
    • Assigning contacts to particular roles - such as Invoicing, Contracts, etc.
    • Accounting Functionality - they are basically a project management accounting software, so in my opinion, they could learn some things from other accounting software such as QuickBooks etc.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Agiline LLC
    No answers on this topic
    BQE Software Inc.
    We have been using Core for a few years now, and honestly started to look at other software systems to see what was out there. What we chose was a nightmare for migration so we never left Core. Now we have added invoicing and payments from Core instead of double entry with QBO. Still only a few cycles in but looks like it will be up to speed soon and working smoothly.
    Incentivized
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    Usability
    Agiline LLC
    Agiline CRM is [a] well-designed tool for marketing automation and for Contact management my overall experience is great with it. The customer support of Agiline is amazing. We had to get in contact
    with them twice and found them highly responsive and professional people
    having complete command of the product which eventually facilitated us
    in solving our problem.
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    BQE Software Inc.
    The foundation is awesome, like I have said before, however the house being built on it, the educational resources being provided to us (more of sales pitches that don't work), and flexible workflow opportunities, is making us look elsewhere for how much we will be spending on per user. It's crazy to think how flexible they are not when it comes to user settings. Lack of integration with other sources is awful.
    Incentivized
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    Reliability and Availability
    Agiline LLC
    No answers on this topic
    BQE Software Inc.
    I can only remember a couple of times in 4 years that Core has been unavailable.
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    Performance
    Agiline LLC
    No answers on this topic
    BQE Software Inc.
    This is one area that does need some improvement. It can be slow at time, so we had our IT look at it from our side and we had no issues, so it has to be some slowness on their side.
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    Support Rating
    Agiline LLC
    Its features like sales automation have helped in saving our time and with the help of this tool, we can keep the data of our loyal clients safe in one place. It has multiple features to facilitate one's experience. But its price is not good. Agiline CRM is a tool that has made customer relation management quite handy.
    Incentivized
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    BQE Software Inc.
    As a new employee and CORE user, I talk to support on a weekly basis. I have never had to wait for more than 3 min to get connect with a support rep, and all my questions have been answered. The support representatives are polite and eager to help no matter how simple your question is.
    Incentivized
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    Online Training
    Agiline LLC
    No answers on this topic
    BQE Software Inc.
    Make sure you have someone training you that fits your style of learning.
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    Implementation Rating
    Agiline LLC
    No answers on this topic
    BQE Software Inc.
    It does take some time to understand the options and to find the best invoice template.
    Incentivized
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    Alternatives Considered
    Agiline LLC
    Agiline CRM is a magic tool with multiple features and works so well with our business. The working of Agiline CRM. is fast but on the other hand, the speed of action of 1CRM was not so good and was clunky. Above all 1CRM wasted our time as that was so difficult tool to understand.
    Incentivized
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    BQE Software Inc.
    Deltek Vision is far more advanced, more encompassing and offers more flexibility with what you want to do. However, it's also quite difficult to use, whereas BQE CORE is intuitive and user friendly. The trade off is worth it in some arenas but overall it's not suited for a larger fast paced company. Great for smaller companies.
    Incentivized
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    Scalability
    Agiline LLC
    No answers on this topic
    BQE Software Inc.
    This software works on a small and large scale.
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    Return on Investment
    Agiline LLC
    • Its customer service is perfect and gives timely responses.
    • Price is unfair and should be decreased.
    • Not browser friendly.
    Incentivized
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    BQE Software Inc.
    • Quick setup of new tasks under a parent project, with immediate hourly billing to it.
    • Monitoring of details of non-chargeable efforts in appropriate detail
    • Validation of hourly cost, billing cost, benefit cost, profitability by person and role
    • Company tracking of write-off's included in corporate and project reporting, no data is "lost"
    • Can track excessive work time as +PTO in lieu of pay for use as future vacation
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