BQE CORE vs. Microsoft To Do

BQE CORE

BQE CORE

195 Reviews and Ratings

Microsoft To Do

Microsoft To Do

245 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
BQE CORE	Score 8.8 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
Microsoft To Do	Score 8.1 out of 10	N/A	Microsoft To Do replaces the former Wunderlist task management tool.	N/A

Pricing

BQE CORE

Microsoft To Do

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Offerings

Pricing Offerings
BQE CORE	Microsoft To Do
Free Trial
Yes	No
Free/Freemium Version
No	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

No setup fee

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Community Pulse
	BQE CORE	Microsoft To Do
Considered Both Products	BQE CORE TF Tracy Forai Office Administrator Chose BQE CORE BQE CORE was hands down more user friendly and customizable Incentivized Helpful? KC Kree Champion Office Manager Chose BQE CORE The previous version was pretty similar Incentivized Helpful? MK Mary Kinsley Finance Analyst Chose BQE CORE I have not used other systems. Incentivized Helpful? Nick Deccio Director of Operations Chose BQE CORE I think BQE CORE is far superior Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose BQE CORE Toms Planner gant charts are very easy to navigate and edit. Incentivized Helpful? JS Jess Smith Project Designer Chose BQE CORE I previously used Gusto for both benefits / employee details and also time tracking. It was really nice to have everything in one place, and Gusto felt very simple. However, it did not have as many broken down categories for time allotment. Harvest felt similar to Gusto, and it … Incentivized Helpful? GK Gokul Krishna Support Chose BQE CORE It helps and have a great impact on It employees like me to track and submit my timesheet to my managers and higher officials and make a note that I have spend my working house valuable and resourceful and the managers can take a look at what have I done in my working hours Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose BQE CORE our team uses both the platforms and does not tie very well. bamboo does have a more pleasant to the eye interface comparatively. it is also a bit easier to navigate and not have to click too many times to reach any particular information on bamboo. BQE CORE does do visuals of … Incentivized Helpful? Kayla Derrick Executive Assistant Chose BQE CORE BQE CORE combined numerous products for us. It allows everything to be in one place which cuts down on the back and forth, as well as user error. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose BQE CORE It was an admin desiring to switch. However CORE is easy to manage and calculate timesheet automatic with timer future. In addition I believe the admin stag like the billing aimless function and multiple additional future that monograph does not have. Without mentioning that … Incentivized Helpful? KW Karl Weberg GIS Analyst Chose BQE CORE BQE has more visual tools for determining billable hours and for tracking hours against a project. BQE has a better system for involving employee and simpler methods of tracking expenses. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose BQE CORE Monograph did not allow exporting/importing of data nor did they offer integration with Quickbooks Desktop Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose BQE CORE NA Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose BQE CORE Again, since I'm only an employee, I had no part in choosing BQE for my organization. But it is the best timesheet tracking system that I've used, and I've used 3 other ones in the past. BQE is the simplest to use, yet equally as powerful as the others. When editing my … Incentivized Helpful? JD JORGE DOMINGO Lab Technician Chose BQE CORE It's efficient. Incentivized Helpful? MA Mark Adams Environmental tech Chose BQE CORE It’s the best program I have used to date! It was selected for me through my company. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose BQE CORE They aren't used for the same thing so not able to compare. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose BQE CORE Not used any other software than accounting. This is much easier for my staff to use because it's not a straight up accounting software. Incentivized Helpful? JW Jennifer Ware Senior Technical Writer Chose BQE CORE I didn't take part in selecting BQE CORE; however, our CEO chose it because of its ability to help with invoicing and incorporating other software into the program such as Gantt charts. I like BQE CORE better than BillQuick because it is more user friendly and also displays the … Incentivized Helpful? TB Tyler Bledsoe Engineer Associate Chose BQE CORE N/A, Earth Environmental and Civil only used BQE Core as an hourly billing system. Incentivized Helpful? DK Drake Keese Senior Mechanical Engineer Chose BQE CORE BQE CORE has a much more streamlined process for entering expense entries than Concur. You are able to select which project you would like to charge to and where expense entries are sent for approval, whether that be your manager or the project manager. BQE CORE also is very … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose BQE CORE I have only really used this product. Incentivized Helpful? Desirée Weitzenhoffer Project Manager/Senior Designer Chose BQE CORE BQE CORE is much more in-depth at time tracking than Harvest. Harvest is easier to use out of the gate but BQE CORE is worth the learning curve. I haven't had a chance to use BQE CORE on a mobile device so I can't speak to how it stacks up there against Harvest. Incentivized Helpful? SJ Stephanie Jenkins Interior Designer Chose BQE CORE I don't recall the previous program we used as this was years ago, but we had to put in time manually each week and this was very time consuming. BQE CORE keeps your projects in the timesheet from week to week to you don't have to reinput the project number. Incentivized Helpful? MM Mar Milj Designer Chose BQE CORE monday.com Incentivized Helpful?	Microsoft To Do Verified User Anonymous Chose Microsoft To Do Wrike and monday.com are the big siblings of Microsoft To Do. Even the free versions allow you so much more customization than Microsoft To Do. Miro is an infinite whiteboard style workspace that can be used for project management if your work style is more visual. Again, the … Incentivized Helpful? JK Jonathan Kolarik CEO Chose Microsoft To Do No comparison. Microsoft To Do is far better, simply because of the easy integration with Outlook email, allowing me to simply flag an email in Outlook, then recognize it as a task in Microsoft To Do. iCloud does not integrate well, even though it claims to. iCloud also … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Microsoft To Do Microsoft came with the company laptop. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Microsoft To Do I choose Microsoft to do because is easier and is on the job email, but Clickup is more handful and Google Tasks its in my personal email, so its more convenient. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Microsoft To Do Microsoft To-Do simply put just does to-do lists very well. I don't want the visual components of software like Trello or ClickUp, and I had used Asana in previous roles and just found it to have too much going on. I also didn't like the notification system of Asana, constantly … Incentivized Helpful? Quratulain Habib, PMP Partner / Director / Head of Projects Chose Microsoft To Do I am a fan of to-do lists. Previously they were all pen and paper though, which is fine for chores but not so much when you consistently receive emails and chat messages with various tasks mentioned in there. To Do helps keeping track of them. Incentivized Helpful? TK Thomas Knight Product Manager Chose Microsoft To Do The main alternative that I've used is Todoist. Todoist is better at auto-detecting dates and tags, and I found it easier to assign items to other people using Todoist. I think the big benefit that Microsoft To Do has is that it is more integrated into existing Microsoft … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Microsoft To Do The biggest selling point of Microsoft To Do is that it's free. We were able to jump in and start learning it without having to worry about making up for the cost of the software. We liked the idea of using all Microsoft products in hopes of some of our older employees being … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Microsoft To Do Its the only tool I use to manage my to dos and daily tasks Incentivized Helpful? AM Alejandro Montes Team Lead Chose Microsoft To Do I selected MS To-Do because is easy to use, has a pretty UI and in my organization is free to use. Amazing to schedule your work, meetings, to-do list, prioritize task, etc, but is not like other software like Evernote that have more functionalities like a diagram, … Incentivized Helpful? YL Yuen Liang Enrollment and Marketing Consultant Chose Microsoft To Do To be honest, I loved Wunderlist, and so just moved over to Microsoft To Do out of inertia. Also Trello is more Kanban than a to-do list, so not exactly what we needed. Todoist might be more what we need, but we were already using Wunderlist, so we didn't want to take the time … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Microsoft To Do I prefer Microsoft To Do because of it's amazing app. It seamlessly integrates with mobile so if you're on the go or need to set a reminder, you can very easily take care of it. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Microsoft To Do Trello Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Microsoft To Do Compared to in-built apps from Microsoft or Apple, Wunderlist is far better. It is incredibly hard to collaborate on both Outlook, Gmail, or Apple calendar/reminders. I wouldn't suggest any of those for team projects. Additionally, Wunderlist allows me to separate your work and … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Microsoft To Do Wunderlist is overly simplistic and a bit outdated compared to competing tools. Trello and Microsoft To-Dos and Planner accomplish the same things better. Incentivized Helpful? Nicholas De Salvo Chief Executive Officer Chose Microsoft To Do I started using Wunderlist purely to keep track of my to-dos and organize my time around the general tasks I have to complete. Attempts I have made to extend Wunderlist into project management or other broader tasks have been largely unsuccessful because it feels like there … Incentivized Helpful? Joel Tanzi Business Owner Chose Microsoft To Do Both Trello and Remember the Milk offer their own value in managing tasks and projects. Wunderlist is the best simple task manager I've come across in that it focuses on the critical features you'd want in a task manager - great interface, ease of use, and accessible anywhere. … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Microsoft To Do Tried Google Tasks, and Microsoft To-Do (before its integration with Wunderlist) and they didn't quite serve the purpose we were looking for. Incentivized Helpful? Paul Weber Manager, Digital Media Services Chose Microsoft To Do Wunderlist was a good starting point, but we now use Todoist, and I definitely wouldn't look back. It is more complicated, but with that comes much more control than you get in Wunderlist - rather than simple search tags you have filters that can run across projects, human … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Microsoft To Do I have tried numerous programs in the past, this one, in particular, has an easy interface and almost anyone can use it. One of the most recent programs we have tried is Microsoft To-Do and it does not even compare. We have created access databases specific to do this type of … Incentivized Helpful? Mark Cohen President Chose Microsoft To Do Any.do had a nicer interface but was not as easy to use as Wunderlist. Incentivized Helpful? Anna Jacobs Project Coordinator Chose Microsoft To Do It is more simple, direct, and easy to manage. Also, the price point is much less than most, if not all CRM's on the market. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Microsoft To Do While I have tried a number of other to-do lists, Wunderlist is easy to use and free. Most other to-do lists that I have tried I have used for a day or two and the have deleted and returned to Wunderlist. Part of it is that I am used to this tool, but I think it is also just … Incentivized Helpful? Tish Cator Office Manager Chose Microsoft To Do I think they merged or something—I don’t remember—but it was not as easy as this one was. We love that it is simple and easy. Incentivized Helpful? BW Ben Westby Educator Chose Microsoft To Do Not available, this is the first task management app we have tried so far. Slack is the closest thing we have. Incentivized Helpful?

Features

BQE CORE

Microsoft To Do

Project Management

Comparison of Project Management features of Product A and Product B
	BQE CORE 8.1 Ratings 5% above category average	Microsoft To Do 5.6 Ratings 32% below category average
Task Management	9.40 Ratings	8.00 Ratings
Resource Management	9.00 Ratings	6.20 Ratings
Gantt Charts	9.20 Ratings	4.50 Ratings
Scheduling	9.00 Ratings	8.20 Ratings
Workflow Automation	8.10 Ratings	3.00 Ratings
Team Collaboration	6.90 Ratings	5.00 Ratings
Support for Agile Methodology	7.40 Ratings	6.00 Ratings
Support for Waterfall Methodology	4.60 Ratings	7.00 Ratings
Document Management	8.70 Ratings	3.00 Ratings
Email integration	6.30 Ratings	6.30 Ratings
Mobile Access	7.80 Ratings	7.50 Ratings
Timesheet Tracking	9.70 Ratings	3.00 Ratings
Change request and Case Management	8.40 Ratings	5.30 Ratings
Budget and Expense Management	9.10 Ratings	4.90 Ratings

Professional Services Automation

Comparison of Professional Services Automation features of Product A and Product B
	BQE CORE 8.6 Ratings 11% above category average	Microsoft To Do 6.5 Ratings 17% below category average
Quotes/estimates	8.40 Ratings	5.00 Ratings
Invoicing	8.90 Ratings	7.00 Ratings
Project & financial reporting	9.00 Ratings	7.90 Ratings
Integration with accounting software	8.40 Ratings	6.00 Ratings

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User Ratings
	BQE CORE	Microsoft To Do
Likelihood to Recommend	9.3 (0 ratings)	8.5 (0 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	7.0 (0 ratings)	8.0 (0 ratings)
Usability	9.5 (0 ratings)	7.4 (0 ratings)
Availability	8.2 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Performance	7.3 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Support Rating	7.4 (0 ratings)	7.6 (0 ratings)
Online Training	6.4 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Implementation Rating	2.3 (0 ratings)	10.0 (0 ratings)
Ease of integration	4.5 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Product Scalability	8.2 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Vendor post-sale	8.2 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale	8.2 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	BQE CORE	Microsoft To Do
Likelihood to Recommend	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. SH Sydney Hayes Office Manager Read full review	Great to capture flagged emails for reminders later. Great for quick entry tasks. Would love it if you could set a checklist so that you could more easily assign a task to a category, that is currently a little more tedious than what it should be. The lack of integration with Google is also a little disappointing. Incentivized JK Jonathan Kolarik CEO Read full review
Pros	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 KF Kat Fair Finance Manager Read full review	Wunderlist is what you need for your to do lists. It's really simple to use. Allows you to set due date to your lists, share them with your team and/or create a folder to divide and organize all your list set Also, Wunderlist is compatible with all platform and devices. So you can always be updated on your list or work on them from wherever you are and with all the devices you have. Incentivized Oleg Galimov Руководитель проектов Read full review
Cons	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. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Viewing more than one task at a time. Email forwarding tasks - sometimes can be buggy and not always smooth. Option to show more detail on a task without clicking task - example: being able to see attachment without clicking on task to view. Incentivized Brian Spatz Staff Pastor - Students Read full review
Likelihood to Renew	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 TF Tanya Foster Office Administrator Read full review	I believe Wunderlist is the best to do management app on the planet. So far we are extremely satisfied with the performance. Incentivized Mohammed Anzil Founder and Chief Editor Read full review
Usability	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 PD Paul Desmond Vision + Design Director, Owner Read full review	The actual user interface and the way to navigate around the app is very intuitive and easy to learn/use which would make me give it a high ranking, but the syncing issues drop down my rating because there are times where you add an item to the list and then it just disappears. Then when you add it again the sync will happen and now you have duplicates. The other negative with the usability is adding extra information to an item, such as files or comments or assignments. You can do it but it's difficult to tell which items have this information from the main screen. You have to click on them individually. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Reliability and Availability	I can only remember a couple of times in 4 years that Core has been unavailable. FG Felice Geoghegan Office Manager Read full review	No answers on this topic
Performance	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. FG Felice Geoghegan Office Manager Read full review	No answers on this topic
Support Rating	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 AT Andrew Thompson Project Scheduler Read full review	I have not had an issue where I needed to reach out to Wunderlist, but I know their contact and online chat is easy to access and feel confident that they would be helpful. My only worry is Wunderlist is becoming Microsoft to-do in May 2020, and I believe the app will become worse after that. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Online Training	Make sure you have someone training you that fits your style of learning. FG Felice Geoghegan Office Manager Read full review	No answers on this topic
Implementation Rating	wont let me skip Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Wunderlist giving 100% work satisfaction for me and my organization Incentivized Abdul Hakkim Founder Read full review
Alternatives Considered	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 Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Wrike and monday.com are the big siblings of Microsoft To Do. Even the free versions allow you so much more customization than Microsoft To Do. Miro is an infinite whiteboard style workspace that can be used for project management if your work style is more visual. Again, the free version is still so much more customizable and usable than Microsoft To Do. On a team of people of multiple generations, Microsoft To Do might be a good option if you have to work collaboratively on a simple project. Otherwise, I would recommend any of the other three software options above Microsoft To Do. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Scalability	This software works on a small and large scale. FG Felice Geoghegan Office Manager Read full review	No answers on this topic
Return on Investment	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 ES Emil Slavik CEO (Chief Executive Officer) Read full review	It helps our team complete tasks on time, securing better ROIs. No tasks are being forgotten, leading to better client retention. The team is getting serious momentum from being able to see and finish the tasks. We even applaud every time we hear the little "ding!" when the task is completed. :) Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
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