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BQE CORE

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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…

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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…

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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

7.8
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Professional Services Automation

Features that support professional services organizations

8.3
Avg 7.5
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Product Details

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 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

BQE CORE Videos

Customer Testimonial: iT Architecture
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BQE CORE Technical Details

Deployment TypesSoftware as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationApple iOS, Android, Mobile Web
Supported CountriesUnited States, Australia and EU
Supported LanguagesEnglish

Frequently Asked Questions

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Reviewers rate Timesheet Tracking highest, with a score of 9.2.

The most common users of BQE CORE are from Small Businesses (1-50 employees).

BQE CORE Customer Size Distribution

Consumers0%
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.

Cons:

  1. 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.

  2. 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.

  3. 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:

  1. 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.

  2. 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.

  3. 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.

Reviews

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Great time tracking software for project-based work!

Rating: 9 out of 10
September 16, 2024
JS
Vetted Review
Verified User
BQE CORE
1 year of experience
In my role, I mainly use BQE CORE to track my work hours, broken down into various projects and project phases. This program addresses how our company can track each person's time and bill / invoice the client(s) accurately according the amount of work performed. It also allows for full transparency between us and our leadership team about how much time a task takes, which is helpful to foster a supportive work environment.

Great usability, mobile app is extremely useful.

Rating: 10 out of 10
August 16, 2024
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
BQE CORE
1 year of experience
We are a financial services firm that service medium to large corporate clients. We use BQE CORE for our timekeeping and billing. The issues we have is having different charge out rates across different cases and at times having different charge out rates during different periods of an engagement. BQE CORE's reporting function allows us to review the different rates across several engagements and for an engagement historically.

BQE CORE rocks!

Rating: 6 out of 10
August 15, 2024
MR
Vetted Review
Verified User
BQE CORE
2 years of experience
We use this software for our employee time management and payroll. It centralizes and streamlines all our needs into one easy to use data base. With the software being online based we are able to access it anywhere and all our employees are able to stay organized and up to date on project timelines. In addition, the, the software tracts PTO, Sick, and Holiday hours which is really helpful for employees to manage time off.

I love BQE CORE

Rating: 10 out of 10
August 15, 2024
CW
Vetted Review
Verified User
BQE CORE
1 year of experience
Creating new projects in BQE CORE is super easy and efficient as well as being able to track billable hours per project. BQE CORE has exceeded my expectations in managing and tracking my day to day work projects. This software has made my life so easy easier and helpful when managing multiple tasks.

Secure, Flexible, & Scalable

Rating: 9 out of 10
August 09, 2024
KM
Vetted Review
Verified User
BQE CORE
6 years of experience
I use BQE CORE for time entries for payroll and for expense entries. The BQE CORE platform is secure, flexible, and scalable. I've been using BQE CORE at two different companies for over 5 years. I would not recommend anything else.

Nice

Rating: 7 out of 10
August 08, 2024
GK
Vetted Review
Verified User
BQE CORE
1 year of experience
It's good to use and user friendly. I use it ti do my timesheet management and it's very useful and helps a lot. The calendar is also a plus while using the timesheet. it happens to have that we can either fill the timesheet by entering it in daily or weekly basics

Efficient but could use work

Rating: 8 out of 10
August 08, 2024
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
BQE CORE
1 year of experience
Used for hours logged in each week with details as to which projects they pertain to and description to justify costs to clients. the usage of the interface has been improving for sure in the past 2 years of usage. However it could use a bit of clarity on user case as to what's visible to employer, manager and employee. it still has enough information spaces to ensure a complete picture if sorted well

Good System

Rating: 8 out of 10
August 06, 2024
KW
Vetted Review
Verified User
BQE CORE
1 year of experience
We use BQE for our time and entry, expense tracking and client billing. The product manages our time and projects well and gives fantastic visuals to evaluate billable hours and employee utilization. It is effective in tracking and submitting expenses. We are a small to medium sized consulting company in the forestry industry

Helped our small business save time and grow!

Rating: 8 out of 10
May 20, 2024
KD
Vetted Review
Verified User
BQE CORE
2 years of experience
We use BQE CORE for project management, time tracking, and invoicing. Prior to this we were using 3+ programs to do these things and manually creating invoices because we could not find a porgram that let us track fixed and percent contracted time.

Simple and Effective Time Tracking Software

Rating: 9 out of 10
May 14, 2024
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
BQE CORE
3 years of experience
We have been using BQE CORE for the past several years and have been associated with BQE CORE for nearly 8 years. We primarily utilize BQE CORE for Time and Expense Tracking, Monthly Invoicing, Project Management Reporting, and financial syncing to QuickBooks.

BQE CORE Time and Expenses

Rating: 10 out of 10
April 17, 2024
RH
Vetted Review
Verified User
BQE CORE
1 year of experience
We use it for Time and Expense tracking. It has aided our company to easily and accurately track time. We need to find a software that enables us to track expense and time without having to manually enter. It has exceeded our expectations and employees are all commenting on the ease of using and are on board with the new features.

Land Surveyor

Rating: 8 out of 10
April 10, 2024
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
BQE CORE
4 years of experience
We use BQE Core to take work hours on projects, track progress, and bill clients. The system is set up to easily track times for multiple tasks and projects. The ability to add memo comments to entered time is a valuable tool.

Make More MONEY!

Rating: 9 out of 10
April 10, 2024
RG
Vetted Review
Verified User
BQE CORE
17 years of experience
We are long time users of the "pre-CORE". This is a very powerful tool to help our office understand where the time is going, how much it cost, and how much it has made. The Support group has been fantastic and they are available with very little wait......usually. Since the program is doing a lot of different things, it is important to get the information in there correctly. "Garbage in, garbage out". This is the most important tool we have to monitor and make profit.<br><br>We use this tool so that the team can work towards bringing the project in on budget, thus maximizing the profit.

I love the Timer Function

Rating: 10 out of 10
April 08, 2024
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
BQE CORE
1 year of experience
In this new work environment is essential to have an assistance software to track your time. The new nor on a lot of industries is the hybrid office. This software have been so helpful to keep my time. As an architectural designer I work on multiple projects at the same time. CORE not only help me to keep on track on projects needs but allows me to work between one project and the other by using the timer tool. With the timer future I can start working in a task at the office and stop while I leave it I work crime home some extra time I simply start the timer again to continue tracking my time. In addition, once I finish I simply convert the timer to an entry. This software have make my life so easy.

So Far, So Good

Rating: 8 out of 10
March 11, 2024
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
BQE CORE
30 years of experience
So Far, So Good! The program is integrating and consolidating our use of several other programs. So far, BQE CORE is providing us real time status of projects in production and assisting us to tracking and distributing manpower. BQE CORE appears to be easy to use by staff and leadership. We are still learning the program and it's limitations, but it is already proving to provide leadership with project management information needed to better address production needs.

BQE CORE, simple but sophisticated.

Rating: 10 out of 10
March 08, 2024
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
BQE CORE
3 years of experience
We use BQE to track daily work on individual projects and recently are tracking hours spent to better understand our percentage of budget used. Multiple employees are able to track time for various types of work, from construction projects to in-office work. Supervisors review timecards to ensure completeness and accuracy, which greatly reduces the time our payroll coordinator spends.

Excellent time and expense tracking

Rating: 8 out of 10
March 07, 2024
MM
Vetted Review
Verified User
BQE CORE
1 year of experience
We use BQE CORE for our civil engineering company. It helps us track accurate hours for projects, accounts payable, accounts receivable, and larger time period reviews of our accounting status. The reports are easy to use and understand. The expense reporting is very well put together in order for us to properly reconcile all purchases.

BQE is perfect for timesheet tracking!

Rating: 10 out of 10
March 07, 2024
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
I use BQE exclusively for billing purposes, to document the hours I work. My organization needs a system to track how many hours I work, and what exactly my time was spent doing. BQE allows me to seamlessly log the days/hours I worked per pay period, and also notate what tasks I worked on. Once I'm done, I submit the timesheet for manager approval.

BQE review

Rating: 8 out of 10
February 14, 2024
am
Vetted Review
Verified User
BQE CORE
1 year of experience
Time track on daily basis project management defining tasks and time management expense report tracking pm tool for employee and team mebers individual tracking per project and per period, accountant relies on the product for expense tracking, considering the tiers for each project and crosschecking with time management, additional expenses part of project consolidation.

BQE Core Makes Project Managment Easy

Rating: 10 out of 10
February 08, 2024
EC
Vetted Review
Verified User
BQE CORE
2 years of experience
Our firm uses BQE CORE for Architectural Project Management and Time Tracking. BQE CORE streamlines the process for creating new projects, assigning tasks, and invoicing a breeze. It makes time and expense entries faster and more accessible for users as well. Our firm has benefitted greatly in the past two years by utilizing the features BQE provides.

BQE CORE Review

Rating: 9 out of 10
February 08, 2024
LR
Vetted Review
Verified User
BQE CORE
1 year of experience
My company uses BQE CORE to track timecards, input expenses, and print expense reports for billing. CORE allows for convenient time tracking for various projects our employees work on throughout the day. Our managers can then use the timecards to direct time and focus to different projects depending on how much time they see each person has spent on their projects. As an employee, CORE is relatively easy to use with a bit of training.

Great product for managing business

Rating: 10 out of 10
January 16, 2024
TK
Vetted Review
Verified User
BQE CORE
4 years of experience
I have been using BQE Software for almost 4 years now. I have been reguarly logging hours and expenses as part of my daily work. I really love the app version in which I can snap a picture on the go from my receipt and toss the receipt away immediatelly. It has saved me tons of time of collecting receipts and then balancing my credit card account. As comparison, colleagues that travel as much as I do can spend up to 7-8 hours per month to review receipts, link them to credit cards, and then pulg them in. I don`t spend any extra time. <br>Tracking billable hours is also pretty easy and there are couple of options to do so for each personality from using project timers that you can play and pause to straight old-fashined type of plug-in. Overall, I am very happy of this software.

BQE Review from Engineer

Rating: 8 out of 10
January 09, 2024
JR
Vetted Review
Verified User
BQE CORE
2 years of experience
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.

This is amazing!

Rating: 10 out of 10
January 08, 2024
JD
Vetted Review
Verified User
BQE CORE
1 year of experience
I use BQE Core to track and manage assignments given to me. BQE Core is very efficient when searching for job assignment’s amongst the hundreds of jobs we recieve every year from different clients all around our state. Time management and expense management is very important in our company and it will be very difficult to manage it all without an organized software which BQE Core has helped us with.
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