Overview
What is BQE CORE?
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…
Review of My Experience
Good, but still room for improvement
Just My Thoughts
Hit and miss
The BQE CORE experience
Foundation is awesome, potential is high, delivery needs work.
Streamlined Project Hour Breakdown
Great software for small businesses
BQE CORE Review
BQE CORE has made an engineer able to be an accountant
A Great Tool With Some Room For Improvement
It's good.
Core 4
Great for timet racking and project management!
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Popular Features
- Timesheet Tracking (23)8.989%
- Resource Management (16)6.161%
- Budget and Expense Management (20)6.161%
- Project & financial reporting (16)6.161%
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Pricing
What is BQE CORE?
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…
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- Free/Freemium Version
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Product Demos
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Features
Project Management
Project management software provides capabilities to streamline management of complex projects through task management, team collaboration and workflow automation
- 6Task Management(15) Ratings
This includes the ability to plan, track, collaborate and report on tasks.
- 6.1Resource Management(16) Ratings
Resource management is workload planning to maximize resources.
- 5.8Gantt Charts(5) Ratings
Gantt charts are charts that show tasks or events along the y-axis displayed against time along the x-axis.
- 6.6Scheduling(10) Ratings
Scheduling capabilities allow users to set schedules on tasks, and create timelines and milestones.
- 5.9Workflow Automation(10) Ratings
Workflow automation is the ability to route work requests along an approval process automatically.
- 6Team Collaboration(12) Ratings
Team collaboration capabilities let team members work directly with each other and provide team updates.
- 5Support for Agile Methodology(4) Ratings
Agile is a time boxed, iterative approach to development that builds software incrementally instead of trying to deliver it all at once near the end.
- 7Support for Waterfall Methodology(5) Ratings
Waterfall methodology is a tradition development method that is linear and sequential.
- 5Document Management(13) Ratings
Document management provides for centralized management of all project documents.
- 5.9Email integration(11) Ratings
Email integration allows work requests to be made directly from email.
- 7Mobile Access(13) Ratings
Mobile access is the ability to access the software from a smartphone or tablet.
- 8.9Timesheet Tracking(23) Ratings
Timesheet tracking is the ability to track all billable and non-billable hours for each project.
- 5.1Change request and Case Management(8) Ratings
Change request and change management enables tracking of all customer requests including priority and timeframe.
- 6.1Budget and Expense Management(20) Ratings
Budget and expense management provides the capability to track all expenses by employee or department and link them back to department. It also enables hourly rates to be set.
Professional Services Automation
Features that support professional services organizations
- 7.3Quotes/estimates(7) Ratings
Ability to create, manage and send project fee proposals to customers
- 7.4Invoicing(12) Ratings
Ability to create, manage and send invoices to clients during or after completion of a project
- 6.1Project & financial reporting(16) Ratings
Ability to analyze project and financial data based on custom criteria to gather insights and improve business performance
- 6.9Integration with accounting software(9) Ratings
Real-time, two-way sync with accounting or financial software to facilitate project and financial reporting
Product Details
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What is BQE CORE?
BQE CORE replaces the products Engineeroffice, Archioffice, and BillQuick; the functionality of these applications is now found in BQE CORE.
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BQE CORE Technical Details
Deployment Types | Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
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Operating Systems | Unspecified |
Mobile Application | Apple iOS, Android, Mobile Web |
Supported Countries | United States, Australia and EU |
Supported Languages | English |
Frequently Asked Questions
BQE CORE Customer Size Distribution
Consumers | 0% |
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Small Businesses (1-50 employees) | 60% |
Mid-Size Companies (51-500 employees) | 20% |
Enterprises (more than 500 employees) | 20% |
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Reviews and Ratings
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Reviews
(1-25 of 115)BQE: A must have for time keeping
- User friendly
- Access to historical data
- Billing insight
- Billable tracker seems to glitch
- Automatic timer would be useful
- More reporting options
Review of My Experience
- Easy to use interface.
- Ability to get assistance
- Ability to customize interface.
- In App tutorials
- More templates
- Ability to add more options to drop-downs
Good, but still room for improvement
- Time tracking
- Project budget tracking
- Services invoicing
- Allocation forecasting and tracking don't update with hours spent
- Reports could be more user friendly
- Would love to have procurement functionality
Just My Thoughts
- Time Tracking
- Billing Made Simple
- Reports
- Using the back button, takes you all the way back instead of just one step back.
- More user friendly like Quickbooks
- Adding the payroll feature without having to pay extra
Hit and miss
- Allows for projects to be organized in a hierarchy - projects with multiple phases
- Simple navigation
- Reports
- Overseeing project progress
- Resource allocation - seeing staff workloads
- Some reports are lacking
The BQE CORE experience
- logging time entries
- providing information relating to how many hours of holiday/vacation were utilized in a year
- providing a breakdown of how one is paid
- The website doesn't seem to be very optimized at times
- there doesn't appear to be any implementation of keyboard shortcuts
- sort-of outdated design
- Project Management
- Time and Expense
- Dashboard Layouts
- Reporting options
- Invoicing
- Payables
- UI Interface
- Custom KPIs + Dashboards
- Project Templates
- Redundant Information locations
- Streamline Project Process
Streamlined Project Hour Breakdown
- Inputting PTO requests
- Creating charts and graphs that breakdown your project/work hours
- Mobile app user interface
- User interface could be easier to navigate
- Speed of program (lags when inputting time)
- Time sometimes disappears and I have to put the time in again
Great software for small businesses
- User-friendly
- Good customer support
- Quickly improving small bugs or other issues
- Sometimes can be slow
- Attachments do not always go through
- Sorting could be better
BQE CORE Review
- Time tracking
- Time entry
- Organized reports
- Not intuitive
- Can not always remove unused rows
- Lag in loading
- Timekeeping
- Project Performance
- Budgeting
- I wish the dashboard was more functional in that when you click on bar chart, it would produce the report showing how it arrived at that number
- Task Management
A Great Tool With Some Room For Improvement
- Time Entry and Tracking
- Project Tracking
- Reporting
- Filtering is not intuitive
- Reports are not customizable
- System has some bugs which make filtering via groups useless on some screens
It's good.
- Organization
- Time Tracking
- Expense Tracking
- Expense tracking could use a "approved" and "pending" total on current expenses
- A way to hide blank columns in time tracking
Core 4
- Customer Service
- Time Tracking
- Invoicing
- Complexity of data retrieval
- Inconsistent search & retrieval of data
- Not intuitive
Great for timet racking and project management!
- The dashboard is clearly laid out and easy to use
- the interface is customizable based on preference
- keeping track of projects/tasks easily
- Searching for a project can be difficult, and times out quickly
- I'd appreciate more options in terms of how to search
- There was an update to the platform which made it easier to use and addressed any other concerns
- Reporting
- Dashboard
- Time & Expense Entry
- Missing functionality in Vendor Bills and Bill Payments
- Missing functionality in Time Entry
- Customer Service and Communication
For accounting functions such as A/P - Vendor Bills, Bill Payments and Check printing the product is cumbersome and this could be made more streamlined.
Project Management - specifically Project Details is clunky
It works.
- Client billing
- Invoice payment
- Scheduling employee time
- The need to finalize each line by confirming you are done is a bit inconvenient
- It is not super intuitive they way the filters are structured.
Great for a small firm
- Invoicing
- Time Tracking
- Project Structure
- updates can lag loading
At the CORE of Civil engineering
- Time and expenses - tracking and inputting
- Invoicing and billing - excellent for time based accounting
- Record keeping - able to look at client history (we have clients that have projects ongoing for years)
- Speed - needs to be quicker
- Frustration with having to "re" search after entering an invoice. It would be great if it would complete the invoice on the same screen rather than having to go back to invoices, search for the invoice you just entered and having to "Preview" to send.
- Complicated
Great System for Consulting Firm!
- Time tracking
- Expense tracking
- Assigning project tasks
- Can run slowly at times
- Reminders for assigned tasks
- More intuitive expense tracking
Core BQE Accountant
- live support
- accounting
- project tracking
- vendor bills
- employee time
- moving phases in a project
- times when it runs slow
happy customer
- Easy for staff to enter their time
- easy for staff to access dashboard & see info
- easy for staff to do expense reports and see billable hours
- Easy for accounting to run weekly reports and there are many of them
- Accounting sometimes looks for ways to run reports that aren't available
- takes long time to get set up
- reports aren't always easy to access
Tax & Legal Invoicing
- Quick customer service response time
- Customized invoices: the process was extremely detailed and BQE worked with us to make sure every item we asked for was included.
- Easy to navigate website, user-friendly design
- Online payment integrations
- Server response time can be inconsistent
- Unexplained errors/glitches from time to time
Overall, good software
- Easy to use
- Dashboard features
- Time entry
- Vacation
- Reports
- training materials
- Create customized reports
- Allow for easy invoicing
- Checking project progress
- Must fix glitches with the integration tool
- Stop faulty classifications