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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…
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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 inbox.
BQE CORE replaces the products Engineeroffice, Archioffice, and BillQuick; the functionality of these applications is now found in 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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| 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 |
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Reviewers rate Timesheet Tracking highest, with a score of 9.3.
The most common users of BQE CORE are from Small Businesses (1-50 employees).
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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Users have found this product to be incredibly versatile and useful in a variety of use cases. From personal to professional settings, the product has proven to be an essential tool. Many users have praised its ability to streamline their workflow and increase productivity. Whether it's organizing tasks, managing projects, or collaborating with team members, this product has proven to be a valuable asset.
In addition, customers have highlighted the product's effectiveness in improving time management and prioritization skills. By providing an intuitive interface and customizable features, the product allows users to tailor it to their specific needs and preferences. This flexibility has made it a go-to solution for individuals across different industries.
Furthermore, reviewers have noted the product's seamless integration with other tools and platforms, making it easy to incorporate into existing workflows. Whether it's syncing with calendars, integrating with project management software, or connecting with communication tools, this product offers a seamless experience that enhances efficiency and collaboration.
Lastly, users have praised the product's ability to provide data insights and analytics. By tracking progress, measuring performance, and generating reports, the product empowers users to make informed decisions and optimize their operations.
Overall, customers have found that this product solves various challenges they face in their daily lives by offering a reliable and user-friendly solution. Its versatility, integration capabilities, and data-driven approach make it an invaluable tool for individuals and teams looking to enhance their productivity and achieve their goals.
User-Friendly Interface: Many users have praised the software for its user-friendly interface that is intuitive and easy to navigate. They appreciate the organized layout and easy readability, which makes it convenient to access different areas and find what they are looking for.
Automated Reporting: The ability to preset automated reporting has been helpful to users as it saves them from having to manually create reports. This feature has been appreciated by a significant number of reviewers.
Flexible Time Input: Users highly value the flexibility of being able to input time from any device and any location. This convenience aligns well with their workflow and has been mentioned by numerous reviewers.
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Login Timeout: Some users have expressed frustration with the constant need to log in due to 'timeout', finding it annoying. They mention that they often have to re-enter their credentials, which disrupts their workflow and wastes time.
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Lack of Integration with Payroll Forecasting Tool: Several users have mentioned that they find the integration with the Payroll Forecasting tool lacking. They feel that the software does not seamlessly connect with their payroll system, requiring manual workarounds and causing inefficiencies in managing employee compensation.
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Software Not Intuitive: Users feel that the software is not intuitive and encounter challenges while navigating and using its features. They highlight difficulties in finding certain functions, understanding how to perform tasks efficiently, and overall confusion due to a lack of user-friendly design and clear instructions.
Users have provided several recommendations for BQE Core based on their experiences. Here are the three most common recommendations:
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Users recommend taking advantage of the training and support provided by BQE Core. They suggest being patient with the learning curve and going into the software with an open mind. Some users emphasize that investing in training and implementation packages can help navigate the more complex aspects of the software.
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Many users recommend BQE Core for its time tracking and project management capabilities. They find it helpful for recording time, expenses, and tracking multiple projects. Users appreciate the various filters and options available for time recording and billing. They believe that using BQE Core can improve time tracking and project management goals.
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Another common recommendation is to utilize the customer service and support offered by BQE Core. Users highly appreciate the excellent customer support provided by the company. They suggest contacting BQE support for assistance, utilizing mobile apps, getting reports and invoices customized to fit their business needs, and taking advantage of the report scheduling capability of BQE Core.
Overall, users recommend exploring the features of BQE Core, investing in training if needed, leveraging customer support, and utilizing its time tracking and project management capabilities to enhance productivity.
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January 09, 2024
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This product has allowed me as an employee to be able to enter my time from anywhere. This gives me the freedom to work from home, or in the field when needed. I can simply log on to another pc or an app on my phone to be able to quickly enter my time for the week. I am not tied down to my pc at the office being the only device I can enter my time.
- accessibility
- uniformity
- reliability
- speed
- internet connectivity
- refreshability
October 02, 2023
Generally Intuitive to use
We use CORE to keep track of our hours that we work, accrual/usage of PTO, using Holiday hours, and billing our clients. It is particularly helpful to see our budget for a certain project that we have, and how much we are directly billing the client for the hours that we work. I have no bad words to say yet so far about CORE, only that the dashboard user interface is a little hard to customize and not super clear on how to edit. Besides that, it is very easy to use, informative, and intuitive.
- Easy to use
- Good customer service
- Helpful overviews
- Dashboard can be confusing
- Editing hours can be difficult
- Servers can go down sometimes without notification
May 12, 2023
A Great Tool With Some Room For Improvement
I use CORE as project tracking tool, specifically to help with resource allocation across all of my company's projects. CORE can break down resource allocation across projects, people, or engineering disciplines, and this allows our discipline leads to track and forecast the utilization of their team members across a selected time frame. This insight is critical in ensuring our teams are not overworked and feeds into business decisions regarding hiring for additional positions.
- 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
January 26, 2023
The BQE experience
Score 9 out of 10
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Verified User
BQE is used by our company to track and individually account for all of our client billing and hourly projections of staff cost. BQE is able to break out all of our individual detailed circuits and sections for each client simply and quickly. I am extremely happy with the ease by which new users are able to learn and utilize the features.
- individually separates circuits and sections for our billing
- quick learning time to bill correctly
- easy access across platforms
- I would say that it is pretty good overall, only the tutorials of new features could use a search for new uses
January 26, 2023
BQE is very helpful
Score 8 out of 10
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BQE Core has been absolutely indispensable for us in starting our business for client management and ensuring that our bookkeeping doesn’t get out of control as we navigate all of the other challenges of starting a business. the invoice builder and estimate creator are excellent and once you get a handle on the global Sherri ya and your naming conventions it will do exactly what you want it to. In addition, the help pages are excellent , and the real time chat built in to the app are really helpful and convenient. Just do t hesitate to ask for help since it is a complex software with numerous features.
- Help center
- Invoices
- Client management
- Settings
- Naming conventions
- Auto save
We utilize BQE Core on a daily basis for time card entry, project management, and invoicing. We find that utilizing these functions helps keep us on track for compliance. We also record budgets and monitor them to stay ahead of any billing issues. We have also reached out and taken advantage of the custom reports option.
- They are very good at responding to any inquiries we may have.
- They are good at understanding our needs and implementing any custom options.
- The security features that are able to be implemented with each employee is impressive.
- There is a function for everything when it comes to sorting and filtering specific reports and how to get every bit of information possible.
- The payment and invoice screens could go hand in hand.
- The statements option leaves a little to be desired.
- Classes and trainings could be readily available.
July 21, 2022
Bqe Core for Consulting Engineering
Score 9 out of 10
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Verified User
We use BQE on a day-to-day basis as a consulting engineering firm to keep track of time, and expenses for projects to appropriately budget costs to clients. It helps you track the number of hours spent on projects and helps to distinguish how much time was spent on specific activities.
- Easily accessible online
- Simple and easy to use UI
- Optional mobile app for better accessibility
- At times, BQE can be slow while it uploads/saves to the cloud
- Attachments take time to upload
- Project list from last week's time entry disappear as you enter new week's time entries
June 03, 2022
Great Analytics for Business and Project Management
Dashboards are an amazing quick view of an overall snapshot of what is going on. I love the ability to customize and set up multiple dashboards for Accounting, HR, Project Management, etc. The ability to fine-tune a time period is one of the best features. Time Sheets are easy to use for staff with minimal training.
- 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.
- It would be great to click on a dashboard area and drill down into an actual report.
- I'd like to be able to customize what reports I see within Time Card > More > View Reports, set up a memorized report, and then access it from there while also being able to reset date parameters.
- I'd like the ability to further customize payroll settings. Under Global Settings > MASTER INFORMATION > Employee information > TIME OFF > I like that I can re-name 4 fields of the Activity Items, but I need more and my name does not transfer to some of the reports I use.
- When emailing invoices, I would like the choice to send from more than one email address. For example, my Project Coordinator creates and sends out invoices to clients so her email signature is used. I, send out reminders under the Collections area but I need to replace her signature with mine every time. It would be nice to be able to choose more than one "signature" to send from.
- It would be great if you could have a "most used" section for reports. Needing to sift through 200 reports and read/decipher all the descriptions it a giant time sucker.
May 13, 2022
10/10 would use again!
I use BQE Core to log time which we bill to clients, and log expenses, get vacation approved, log sick time. Arcchitecture is all about billing to clients, so I like how easy it is to choose from the dropdown menus who to bill, and what category to file it under.
- Intuitive, easy, simple graphics not too overwhelming.
- I love that it saves right after you type something in.
- Offers lots of different features that are easy to use.
- I don't like how every time you refresh something, that line jumps to a different place on the screen.
- Not that much too improve, I'm pretty happy.
April 19, 2022
BQE CORE, what an architect needs but doesn't desire
We're a small firm that varies in size and BQE CORE allows the flexibility to expand and contract and provide our staff the tools to manage their workflow, work within budgeted fees and time allocation, and track milestones and progress of project delivery. While many simply clock in, they don't monitor their progress and CORE provides a daily snapshot of time management and meeting project schedules, while I was the principal of design can do more of that…design! We came over from ArchiOffice to CORE and while we lost a bit in prepopulating transmittal, memo, and other related templates with project information for a client, consultant, and contractor coordination, it has been somewhat balanced out by no longer maintaining the server and software with the CORE being a cloud-based platform and providing a very useful mobile app.
- Tracks individual staff time and resource allocation to stay on budget.
- Provides up to the minute fee and budget tracking.
- Almost infinitely customizable with a dashboard to bring it all into a single digestible view for a holistic oversight.
- Historical project data has been invaluable for preparing fee proposals and performance for future projects.
- Simplification of structure and features (customization); sometimes it's too much of a good thing.
- The mobile app could be more closely aligned with the web platform (not all items, features are available, and not as easy to navigate and view data).
- Dashboard widgets could be more interactive. Ex: Aged Receivables should allow bringing up a summary window of past-due project billings and invoices as opposed to simply showing days aged that it already shows on the side and with matching color.
April 16, 2022
BQE Core for Engineering Firms--RECOMMEND!
We use BQE Core for Project Management, Time & Expense tracking, Accounting and Billing, Human Resources and as a CRM Platform. Being able to input information into one platform for use across many different modules saves time and energy on our administrative staff. All of the data is tracked and displayed in efficient widgets and customizable dashboards. The customized reports are very helpful as well. You can drill down all or only what you want to see. Customer service is responsive and able to sort out issues quickly.
- Ease of Use: the layout of each page makes sense and flow is easy to follow
- online: It's great that it can be accessed from any browser, and does not require a software download. Even with this accessibility it remains secure.
- Education: the webinars, videos and community posts are very helpful when onboarding or troubleshooting.
- cost: having to pay for each module for each user is expensive. Would be easier to have different license tiers that group modules.
- development can be slow: fix releases are not as often, feature requests are the only way current users can influence what goes into the new builds.
- additional filters: would be great to have more filters to drill down reports.
We use it to track billable and overhead hours. This is how we track both what we will bill to a client and then in turn, what it is that each of us on the engineering team will be paid (project to project, and specifically in comparison to how many hours we have billed to a client versus to the overhead of the company).
- Extremely intuitive.
- Easy to use.
- Streamlined for efficiency.
- Doesn't always readily update.
- If you have to refresh the page before it saves, you lose the info.
- Doesn't always easily allow copy and paste from previous weeks for categories.
October 22, 2019
I Love BillQuick
The software is used by the entire organization for timekeeping purposes. It is used by the front office for billing, invoicing and project management. For us, it has been most beneficial for providing real-time project cost updates. We are getting a better handle on tracking our P&L on every project.
- Timekeeping.
- Easy invoicing - both hourly and fixed-rate projects.
- Reporting and job cost tracking.
- Almost too many options for reporting...too much for one thing.
June 07, 2016
BillQuick- Gets better over time
We use BillQuick as our sole accounting, time management, and record keeping system. All daily transactions are processed through BillQuick. It is used for everything from AP, AR, invoicing, to all financial reporting. One of the few items we do not use BillQuick for is payroll. But that is because we just got to the 50 person mark and do have the administrative staff to do in-house payroll. Our administrative staff consists of 4 people and they are the ones who are in BillQuick all day. The rest of the staff uses the program more for time and expense entry. We are working on teaching principals, associates, and project managers how to look up information on their own.
- Daily Data Entry- the AR and banking modules are easy to use and do not require excessive training. They have kept these functions clean and to the point.
- User Friendly - The interface is easy to read and having different ways to get to the one area is convenient. The way it is organized makes it easy to get around and find what you are looking for.
- Time & Expense Entry - This module is easy to use and understand. There are different ways to view and enter time and expenses, which is nice because everyone thinks differently.
- Reporting - The ability to customize reports and that there are a variety of reports to choose from makes it [useful].
- Pre-programmed Features - the system comes with items (such as default accounts) which you can not edit, delete, or make inactive. You have to explain to a CPA or upper management what they are and why there are there. These default accounts are also the catch all for when there is a difference in fixed fee billing.
- When looking for specific details, it is hard to follow exactly where everything came from. It works best at the broad overview level but the more detailed you get the harder it is to find the answer.
- When running reports, the ability (or lack there of) to choose which phases you want to see is missing. You can say you want phases 1, 2, & 3 yet only 2 will show and there is no a reason for this.
- Time & Expenses which have been marked as not billable don't show up on billing reports. We have asked tech support for help with this but they were only able to give us a report to run each month. The time should still show up on the billing report even if it's marked as non billable as that time is still against the project.
- In the credit card screen, once you start entering items in you can not go back and delete a line item. You can make it $0 but not get rid of it 100%.