BQE CORE vs. BILL Spend & Expense

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
BQE CORE
Score 8.6 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
BILL Spend & Expense
Score 8.9 out of 10
N/A
BILL Spend and Expense (formerly Divvy) is an all-in-one expense management solution that combines free software with corporate cards to provide you with real-time visibility and customizable control over your business finances.
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Pricing
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Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
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Free Trial
YesYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesYes
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional DetailsBILL Spend & Expense is free for all users
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Top Pros
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Features
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Project Management
Comparison of Project Management features of Product A and Product B
BQE CORE
7.8
72 Ratings
2% above category average
BILL Spend & Expense
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Ratings
Task Management8.554 Ratings00 Ratings
Resource Management8.853 Ratings00 Ratings
Gantt Charts8.126 Ratings00 Ratings
Scheduling8.234 Ratings00 Ratings
Workflow Automation7.237 Ratings00 Ratings
Team Collaboration6.844 Ratings00 Ratings
Support for Agile Methodology8.220 Ratings00 Ratings
Support for Waterfall Methodology7.217 Ratings00 Ratings
Document Management7.638 Ratings00 Ratings
Email integration6.532 Ratings00 Ratings
Mobile Access7.845 Ratings00 Ratings
Timesheet Tracking9.372 Ratings00 Ratings
Change request and Case Management7.831 Ratings00 Ratings
Budget and Expense Management7.557 Ratings00 Ratings
Professional Services Automation
Comparison of Professional Services Automation features of Product A and Product B
BQE CORE
8.2
53 Ratings
9% above category average
BILL Spend & Expense
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Quotes/estimates7.528 Ratings00 Ratings
Invoicing8.846 Ratings00 Ratings
Project & financial reporting8.452 Ratings00 Ratings
Integration with accounting software7.934 Ratings00 Ratings
Expense Management
Comparison of Expense Management features of Product A and Product B
BQE CORE
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BILL Spend & Expense
8.8
6 Ratings
6% above category average
Employee Expense Reporting00 Ratings8.15 Ratings
Corporate Card Reconciliation00 Ratings9.65 Ratings
Payment Management
Comparison of Payment Management features of Product A and Product B
BQE CORE
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BILL Spend & Expense
8.7
6 Ratings
6% above category average
Customizable Approval Policies00 Ratings8.86 Ratings
Financial Document Management00 Ratings8.76 Ratings
Payment Status Tracking00 Ratings9.04 Ratings
Payment Audit Trail00 Ratings9.54 Ratings
Duplicate Bill Detection00 Ratings7.33 Ratings
Advanced OCR00 Ratings8.73 Ratings
Electronic Funds Transfer00 Ratings8.84 Ratings
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User Ratings
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Likelihood to Recommend
8.7
(164 ratings)
9.0
(16 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
7.0
(8 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Usability
8.2
(114 ratings)
9.4
(5 ratings)
Availability
8.2
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Performance
7.3
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
7.3
(90 ratings)
8.6
(2 ratings)
Online Training
6.4
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Implementation Rating
2.4
(6 ratings)
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(0 ratings)
Ease of integration
4.5
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Product Scalability
8.2
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
8.2
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
8.2
(1 ratings)
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User Testimonials
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Likelihood to Recommend
BQE Software Inc.
BQE CORE is well suited for a firm trying to get a better understanding of their project performance as a whole as well as better manage time and project resources. It is not the greatest for client management through a project or through invoicing, but it is do-able within the system.
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BILL
There is a lot of functionality available for any company, and when you combine it with their A/P processing software, I'm sure the value of the software only increases. If you don't look back through your credit card receipts often, or don't have a lot of volume, the receipts not uploading into the accounting software isn't as much of an issue. For us, with roughly $200k of credit card spending each month, it became an issue. The rewards program was hard for us to take advantage of also, mostly because of our spending being spread across multiple companies. Even though we had everything set up together as one business, they still recognized each one as it's own, with it's own rewards requirements. I wouldn't deter anyone from going with Bill Spend & Expense, it's a solid program with a lot of capability, there are just a few small items that mattered to us more than the capabilities we take advantage of.
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Pros
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.
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BILL
  • Divvy does purchases very well. Getting money into the hands of those who need it, when they need it.
  • Budgeting is a breeze because card holders can only spend what is in their specific budget or on their card.
  • Customer support is usually pretty quick to respond
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Cons
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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BILL
  • I wish there were more options in the BILL reimbursement platform - for example, the ability to do a report instead of submit a single expense.
  • We would love for reimbursements to feed into QuickBooks differently, but we understand that this is an early feature and hope it is further developed in the future.
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Likelihood to Renew
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.
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BILL
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Usability
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.
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BILL
The Divvy card provides convenience and flexibility for Finance to manage and monitor each user's transactions at any time. User can issue many virtual cards for different purposes. Transactions can be easily approved. Since we can monitor transaction closely, fraud can be prevented effectively. Mobile app is user friendly and safe.
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Reliability and Availability
BQE Software Inc.
I can only remember a couple of times in 4 years that Core has been unavailable.
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BILL
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Performance
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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BILL
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Support Rating
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.
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BILL
We have enjoyed using Divvy and its functions. The Divvy team has been great, and their support team is outstanding. They have a chatbox on the platform, and they only seem to be someone on call. I have found its benefits to be outstanding, that I recommend it to my clients. I also feel that Divvy rolling out new features only makes it more compelling to stay on as a user.
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Online Training
BQE Software Inc.
Make sure you have someone training you that fits your style of learning.
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BILL
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Implementation Rating
BQE Software Inc.
It does take some time to understand the options and to find the best invoice template.
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BILL
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Alternatives Considered
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.
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BILL
Nothing out there compares to the agility and ease of use of Divvy. Adoption by those most resistant to any expense reporting tool has always been the #1 painpoint to all other such software. Divvy takes the pain away even for creatives and salespeople!
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Scalability
BQE Software Inc.
This software works on a small and large scale.
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BILL
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Return on Investment
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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BILL
  • Divvy is free, so it was tough for us to turn down. We decided to withhold our larger transactions from Divvy to receive those rewards directly.
  • Divvy has saved our Finance/Accounting team tons of time digging through expenses, reimbursements, invoices, etc.
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ScreenShots

BQE CORE Screenshots

Screenshot of Core powered by BQE SoftwareScreenshot of BQE CORE Project Dashboard ViewScreenshot of BQE CORE 360* Firm Performance ViewScreenshot of BQE CORE Reporting & AnalyticsScreenshot of BQE CORE Project Time EntryScreenshot of BQE CORE Project Expense Tracking

BILL Spend & Expense Screenshots

Screenshot of Company Dashboard - High level overview of a business's available credit and current spending.Screenshot of Mobile Wallet - Spend Smarter™ - To manage budgets and expenses on the goScreenshot of Budget Detail - For monitoring business budgetsScreenshot of Insights - Real-time visibilityScreenshot of Transactions - Displays a complete list of all transactions and their current status on a business's physical and virtual cards.